Sheril Kirshenbaum
Squee! Tiny blue octopus discovered off the Galápagos Islands! 🐙 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tiny-alien-like-blue-octopus-discovered-lurking-off-the-galapagos-islands/ #science
May 26 at 5:26pmMastodon for iOS
Show threadWilSnowMay 26
@Sheril is this the fun kind of tiny blue octopus, or the "kill you instantly" kind?
Show threadVolineJun 5

@wilsnowe @Sheril

She said Galápagos, not Australia.

Show threadMacCruiskeenMay 26
@Sheril "Stop making that noise! I am the spawn of the Old Ones! I am going to eat your soul!"
Show threadJules she/herMay 26
paging @rosalindmosis !
Show threadDoug 🌈🇨🇦 May 26
@Sheril poisonous?
Show threadRinaldoMay 26

Préservons notre superbe faune et flore sauvage !

@Sheril

Show threadKevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦May 26
@Sheril Looks to be somewhat related (visually, not genetically) to the vampire squid
Show threadJoy_intlMay 26

@Sheril hommage to the adorable Tiny Blue One 💙 🐙

😍

Show threadLa KekaMay 26
@Sheril It's indeed an important finding, and of course it attracts people because of some characteristics of the species. ... They however fail to underline that, to describe the finding, they killed several of them. ... I am pretty sure this -as every other- species could live perfectly well without /H. sapiens/, and that zoology will some day get better and not kill anyone. ... If these octopuses had been whales, the procedure would have been righteously illegal.
Show threadJoshua KevinsMay 26
@Sheril is it real or ai
Show threadashnodMay 26
@Sheril Re: Tiny alienlike blue octopus discovered
and then promptly murdered
"After collecting some specimens"
Turns out, this “cute little guy” also had 13 eggs in its ovaries.
Show threadehurtley Jun 5
@Sheril https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q4K_xoEO4Y
Tiny Little Octopus (live) - The PDX Broadsides

YouTube
Show threadax0Jun 5
@Sheril so dainty and bluey!