Half-Squid, Half-Octopus Discovered Off of Hawaii 170
Otter writes "A unique creature that's been dubbed an 'octosquid' with eight arms and a squid-like mantle, was discovered off Hawaii. The creature, of a previously unknown species, was trapped in the net covering a 3,000 foot-deep intake tube for the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority. From the article: 'The octosquid was pulled to the surface, along with three rattail fish and half a dozen satellite jellyfish, and stayed alive for three days. According to War, the lab usually checks its filters once a month, but this time, it put a plankton net in one of the filters and checked it two weeks later. The pitch-black conditions at 3,000 feet below sea level are unfamiliar to most but riveting to scientists who have had the opportunity to submerge. The sea floor is full of loose sediment, big boulders and rocks, and a lot of mucuslike things floating in the water, which are usually specimens that died at the surface and drifted to the bottom.'"
Half squid, half octopus (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Octosquid is here (Score:5, Funny)
Natural (Score:4, Funny)
We need patent reform! (Score:4, Funny)
That way, scientists will be able to patent valuable genes in our half-squid/half-octopus brethern, as opposed to killing them to protect their trade secrets
OMG! An old one! (Score:3, Funny)
Damnit (Score:4, Funny)
But.... (Score:4, Funny)
Woo! I love it! (Score:5, Funny)
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Oh, dear. (Score:5, Funny)
I'll miss you guys.
Re:Half squid, half octopus (Score:5, Funny)
Who cares how it came to be... (Score:3, Funny)
Plan 10! (Score:4, Funny)
You are interested in the unknown... the mysterious. The unexplainable. That is why you are here. And now, for the first time, we are bringing to you, the full story of what happened on that fateful day. We are bringing you all the evidence, based only on the secret testimony, of the miserable souls, who survived this terrifying ordeal.
The incidents, the places. My friend, we cannot keep this a secret any longer. Let us punish the guilty. Let us reward the innocent. My friend, can your heart stand the shocking facts of octosquids from the deep ocean?
Holy Shit! (Score:4, Funny)
This has got to be the worst nightmare of every sexy, busty teenage green- or pink-haired schoolgirl, ninja, and swordswoman in Japan!
GMD
half squid, half octopus... (Score:2, Funny)
8 arms??? (Score:5, Funny)
I hate to get into the technobabble nonsense, but I think they're called tentacles (or testicles, if you're a pretty, French foreign-exchange student).
Iä Iä Cthulhu Ftagh'n Iä Iä (Score:2, Funny)
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I was really drunk in Hawaii a year ago... (Score:5, Funny)
Oh shit.
Re:Stupid Name (Score:5, Funny)
life imitating cartoons (Score:3, Funny)
Imagine (Score:3, Funny)
And no it does not run Linux, even though is has base 8.
And it would sure fuck with the iphone's multi-touch interface.
Re:Octosquid is here (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:Octosquid is here (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Oh, dear. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Stupid Name (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Oh, dear. (Score:5, Funny)
"Maybe he was dictating?"
"Oh, shut up."
Re:Half squid, half octopus (Score:3, Funny)
What I want to know is: when it was caught, did it shout "It's a trap!" ?
Re:Oh, dear. (Score:5, Funny)
The wiki says it was discovered by "German teuthologist Carl Chun"
"teuthologist Carl Chun"?
It took the anagram server about 0.1 seconds to come up with 'Cthulhu great colonist' from that one. So you might want to take those nightmares a little more seriously, mate.
(That or Cthulhu Scrotal Toeing which hints at truly blasphemous levels of hentai...)
Re:Woo! I love it! (Score:3, Funny)