Late-Night Science Rides Again!

[greygirlbeast]

So, thanks to everyone who made sure that I didn't miss out on this tentaculous news item:

Curious creature caught off Keahole Point

It's a squid, it's an octopus, it's ... a mystery from the deep

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[sovay]

What appears to be a half-squid, half-octopus specimen found off Keahole Point on the Big Island remains unidentified today and could possibly be a new species, said local biologists.

That's fantastic. I assume it's unlikely to be related to the vampire squid, which also shares characteristics of both cephalopods?

[setsuled]

It's a squid, it's an octopus, it's ... a mystery from the deep.

Cephalopod Uruk-Hai! This is further proof of a growing tentacled power.

Have you seen the octopus who opens bottles?

[criada]

I was all excited when I saw that, but halfway through the National Geographic article it was revealed that this magical, mysterious creature was in fact an ordinary squid that had its long tentacles ripped off while they sucked it up their giant tube. They start the article with, "But scientists can't seem to get their arms around this ocean-going oddity, which has been dubbed "octosquid." and in the middle say, "the missing appendages had given the animal a more octopuslike appearance,"
Thanks journalists, for misleading us.