View Full Version : Nice Grimpoteuthis photo from MBARI
I stumbled upon a couple of cool pics of Grimpoteuthis and thought I'd share:
Fourth and seventh image down (http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/nouvian/nouvian_gallery.html)
Keep looking, there are other cephs and additional amazing photos there.
corw314
Apr 15, '07, 8:04am
I could use one of those machines very nicely! "Glowing Sucker Octopus" interesting! A deep sea creature I'm assuming?:oops: I see that is so on second look. Those are great pics!
sorseress
Apr 15, '07, 1:54pm
Spectacular!
magikceph
Apr 15, '07, 2:34pm
amazing, they look awesome!
Michael Blue
Apr 15, '07, 2:58pm
God, I LOVE deep sea photos, THANKS!
Tintenfisch
Apr 15, '07, 4:32pm
I could be wrong, but... the seventh one looks more like Luteuthis (http://www.tolweb.org/Luteuthis_dentatus/20146)?
this has some of the same pics, but I think some different ones as well. lots o' deep-sea weirdness: http://science.readigg.com/description/16137.html
The spookfish looks implausibly like an owl. Andrea sent me the link as "this has to be photoshopped, right?" but I recognize some of the pics as real MBARI footage.
edit: actually, it looks like this is just some of the same pics, but they're all on one page, so they're easier to view...
sorseress
Apr 25, '07, 1:41am
I love that site. Wouldn't it be fun to have one of those things? (and to live where you could use it.)
I MUST have a ping-pong tree sponge in my new appartment! Do you think it's available in a 12 Volt edition, accepting halogen bulbs?
octobot
May 22, '07, 5:55am
New York Times (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/9i-0&fd=R&url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/science/22deep.html%3Fhp&cid=1116568585&ei=Dr5SRoTmN42G0gGv8djIAw)
Mysteries to Behold in the Dark Down Deep (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/9-0&fd=R&url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/science/22deep.html%3Fhp&cid=1116568585&ei=Dr5SRoTmN42G0gGv8djIAw)
New York Times, NY - 9 hours ago
A small octopus looks like a child’s squeeze toy. A seadevil looks like something out of a bad dream. A Ping-Pong tree sponge rivals artwork that might be ...
More... (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/9-0&fd=R&url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/science/22deep.html%3Fhp&cid=1116568585&ei=Dr5SRoTmN42G0gGv8djIAw)
Neogonodactylus
May 22, '07, 12:06pm
"The Deep" is an absolutely must have book for anyone who loves cephalopods. The book is truly remarkable. After I received my copy and thumbed through it, my first comment to a colleague was that if I had seen this as a kid, I would not have spent my life chasing stomatopods.
Roy
Roy, I took your advice and bought this book - Amazon.com offers it at a very reasonable price.
The photos are amazing - what's been posted onlline is just a glimpse of what this outstanding book has to offer. I'd think anyone interested in cephs and in marine life would enjoy owning The Deep.
Nancy
DWhatley
May 28, '07, 3:43am
Nancy,
How did you get your's so fast? Mine's still on order :wink: and I ordered it the day Roy posted the recommendation! Nice to hear the second 5 star reference though.