Jul 6 2007Octosquid captured

A half-squid, half-octopus creature was found in Hawaii and biologists say it might be a new species of animal.
War, who termed the specimen "octosquid" for the way it looked, said it was about a foot long, with white suction cups, eight tentacles and an octopus head with a squidlike mantle.
Meh. Give me an octopus, a squid, and a stapler, and I'll give you all sorts of new species.
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Reader Comments
1. RandomNigel - July 6, 2007 4:27 PM
That's amazing.
first!
2. RandomNigel - July 6, 2007 4:30 PM
I take that back. It's a freak.
I say we kill it and serve it to the Japanese!
3. meeeeeeeeeeeee - July 6, 2007 5:06 PM
probably the result of radiation or toxic waste dumped in the surrounding waters, the lord almighty god/jeeeeebus nevah intended foah such ghastlyyyyyy creatures to gallavant the oceans
4. Anexio - July 6, 2007 5:34 PM
This is a prime example of what Bush and Rove are doing to our oceans.
Our government is going crazy, creating hybred creatures.
They lie to us about creating a genetic army of mutants!
No lie mistah!
5. Diablo - July 6, 2007 6:35 PM
#2 I think i did eat that while I was in Japan. But it took a lot of wasabi and Shochu to get it down.
6. thinkhouse - July 6, 2007 6:42 PM
probably the result of squids being jealous of the cool octopi....I live in fear of shark jealous lions!
7. jo - July 6, 2007 7:26 PM
that is the coolest thing this site has ever posted..... EVER. and it's really pretty, too.
8. Atrieds - July 6, 2007 9:32 PM
It's posts like these I love about Geekologie... enough with the clocks already!
9. Pastor Al - July 6, 2007 9:53 PM
Ok... whatever... the real question is "how does it taste deep-fried and dipped in coctail sauce?"
10. cuntessssssssssssssssssssssssssssss - July 6, 2007 10:09 PM
wow, i´d lovethat all slithering inside mah cunt, all those writhing tentacles, ribbed with suction cups for my slimy, drippy, sticky, cunty pleasure, mmmmmmmmmm, and that pointy head, reminds me of my first dildo (i wore it out before my 11th birthday, gone snapped in half inside my asshole), imagine having that lil creature as a personal sexual pleasure slave/device in public, better than a clit piercing
11. batman - July 6, 2007 10:38 PM
#10 shut up.
12. batman - July 6, 2007 10:39 PM
No one cares.
13. vanman - July 7, 2007 12:18 AM
freaking Rand corporation. What aren't they responsible for? This retarded post of mine, and that's it.
14. Baghdaddy - July 7, 2007 9:33 AM
I'd hit it.
15. Shoppo - July 7, 2007 12:18 PM
Neat creature, but how can we glaze over Jan War? She should be fronting a death metal band. War Chicks or something...
And who are they fooling with the 'went to the natural energy lab Tuesday to pick up the preserved octosquid'? This must be researcher talk for battered and fried
16. vixen - July 7, 2007 2:32 PM
#14- nice.
as for the octo-squid....
this poor sad creature is now lost and alone. is it not enough he/she's been shunned by it's own oceanic community? now we have to stick it to a poster and call it, 'glory and new'. all it ever wanted was to be like all the other octopi, it knew the squids would never accept it. and so what now, when it's 5 minutes of fame is up? who will care for octo-squid when it's alone, crying and singing a pathetic rendition of 'love child' at the local karaoke bar?
who?
17. puppetman - July 7, 2007 4:58 PM
10 seems hotttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt!
this is so awesome!
I want it as a pet.
18. ali - July 7, 2007 5:18 PM
result of evolution. enough proof?
19. SuperStoned420 - July 7, 2007 7:43 PM
Totally evolution, or interspecies mating. I hope they don't kill it.
People are scared of change and fear what they do not understand. This octo-squid is just evidence that what you think you know about this world is outdated and inaccurate.
20. robotmessiah - July 8, 2007 5:19 AM
Oh no. That's just the baby...
21. Daniel - July 8, 2007 12:23 PM
sweet lord. thats a nice one :)
22. wiinja - July 8, 2007 12:37 PM
that's one bad motherf...
*shut your mouth*
just talkin bout Octosquid
23. The Ninja Trebuchet - July 9, 2007 2:57 PM
So is this "Unintelligent Design"?
24. cory - July 9, 2007 8:52 PM
yeah, found - and then killed. then blamed the death on gigantic "pipeline" they set up to suck new species to the surface.
it's okay though, it's all for the good of science.
25. Shifty - July 10, 2007 12:21 PM
how about a video of one hunting down a fishy!
26. TATTRAT - July 20, 2007 11:56 PM
I wonder what it would be like breaded and fried.....
27. roy - July 29, 2007 4:30 PM
Who are they trying to fool? that's not an octosquid... that's a squidopus!