Friday Cephalopod: Three eerie green embryos

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Loligo pealei embryos

Figure from Nikon Small World Gallery.

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It's looking a lot like Cephalopodmas…whoa, but I got a lot of cephalopod art and weirdness sent in to me this week. You'll have to look below the fold for all of them, and do notice that most of the images are links to the source.

For some reason, these things remind me vaguely of the Glukkons from the Oddworld videogame series. (I know... weird. But, still.)

So creepy lookin...

By Blackrend (not verified) on 31 Oct 2008 #permalink

they look a bit like three very small mormons who've just turned up on the doorstep.

Bizzaro, though it may partly be due to the unnatural lighting.

By Fernando Magyar (not verified) on 31 Oct 2008 #permalink

No les acabo de ver la forma de los Loligo pealey adultos, claro que es lo que tienen los embriones, que son amorfos.

I reckon it'd be pretty easy to make cookies or gingerbread to a reasonable approximation of these embryos. Any baking types care to attempt?

curly, larry & embrymo ?

Fernando,

No lightning in this picture, at all. It is not a photograph but an electrograph, through a scanning electron microscope (SEM). Green colour is only for aesthetic purposes.

s1do, bueno, sí, pero es solamente una bonita imagen :)
PZ no dice nada mas.

By John Morales (not verified) on 31 Oct 2008 #permalink

"eerie green embryos". Now there's a great name for an alt/indie band!

See no evil squid, hear no evil squid, speak no evil squid.

:-)

By murgadroid (not verified) on 31 Oct 2008 #permalink

If the one on the middle is wearing a Fedora, why are the other two wearing berets? I need to know.

Christmas Carolers!
or
Radioactive Hipster Snowmen

#13: Maybe it's the infamous fedora-wearing gangster boss Al Cephalo and his two bereted ex-Army bodyguards? ("I could kill you with seven tentacles tied behind my back!")

they appear to be grinning at me.

I think I need more coffee.

They look like little witches. Norns of the Nautilus.

By Justin H. (not verified) on 31 Oct 2008 #permalink

Oops, premature posting. Prune @6:
How about an embryo bento lunch? That may be a bit easier due to having a lot of different materials available.

*with a pronounced lisp*
Lisssten folks - the little green Martian cephalopods are coming to get YOU!

By Duck Dodgers i… (not verified) on 31 Oct 2008 #permalink

Nice. Spinal Tap's last drummer.

They look like Wombles to me!

Turn the image upside down and you've got three day-glo mustachioed french poodle heads with funky electronic collars.

Nice hat on the guy in the middle. :-)

By Mad Hussein LO… (not verified) on 31 Oct 2008 #permalink

Love the pork pie hat on the middle one. Must be into ska.

By Jack Rawlinson` (not verified) on 31 Oct 2008 #permalink

Looks more like a strawhat to me. Most likely a bent up Panama. Like Osgood Fielding III.

what is that think ?