Look! Up in the sky! It's a .. a... WTF **IS** that?

[eppur_se_muova]

http://uwpresse.com/SERVER/reportages/MARINE_LIFE/TREMOCTOPUS/ppages/ppage8.html

[Dr. Strange]

1. Well, it's not a narwhal.

Fuck no.

[geardaddy]

3. It's narwhal food.

fuck yeah...

[sarge43]

2. Must say, she dresses better than most of the attendees at this year's Golden Globes.

At least, she can color coordinate.

[Orrex]

4. Whatever it is, it apparently speaks French.

[deucemagnet]

5. Babelfished

Filename: Tremoctopus 008.jpg Caption: DISCOVERED D' A NEW SPECIES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN NEVER PHOTOGRAPHIEE TREMOCTOPUS GRACILIS Tremoctopodidae family This octopus of deep seas lives between 120 and 750 bills of quantities of depth. Tremoctopus are champions of the sexual dimorphism of mass with a report/ratio which can go jusqu' with 1:40.000. Here, a female photographiee in the Mediterranean with the accesses of l' island of Ponza in Italy. Distribution: Mediterranean - Indian Ocean - Pacific Ocean Photographer: Marcello CONTICELLI/UWPRESS.com

[TreasonousBastard]

6. It's a blanket octopus...

found around Australia (of course...)

"The male blanket octopus spends his existence drifting along waiting to meet with a female. If the male meets a female, he fills one of his tentacles with sperm and tears it from his body. He gives this sperm-filled tentacle to the female which she then uses to fertilize her eggs. Afterwards, the female leaves the male, who floats away and dies.

These species have an extreme degree of sexual dimorphism. According to the Melbourne Museum, "there's no other non-microscopic critter that has such a significant size difference between the male and female." Measuring only 2.4 cm long, the male blanket octopus is incongruously smaller than the female who can grow to over 2 m."

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