Originally published at: Giant cuttlefish emerges from sand - Boing Boing
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I’ve ignored this on YouTube for weeks. Can we please stop referring to dying animals trapped out of their natural environments as “terrifying monsters?” Show some fucking compassion.
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Contributed by Popkin.
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To be fair, I don’t think any of us would look particularly cute or cuddly after being buried, dead, in sand for a while.
The babies are super-cute. (The younger the get, the more they’re just little heads with big eyes.) But even the adults are pretty cuddly:
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Say what? Most cuttlefish are shallow-water animals that live in tropical and temperate regions and are a common sight among scuba divers. Fun to watch, too—especially if you catch two or more having a colorful “conversation” with their chromatophores.
I know someone is trying to tie them to cthulu here but these aren’t exactly the kinds of creatures you’d normally find in the Mariana Trench.
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Yeah… this whole post is rather… lacking.
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Not to be confused with The Cuttlefish of Cthulhu.
You may or may not want to Google that. IYKYK
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I concur. 
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Their chromatophores are very impressive, comparable to octopus:
I’ve not been able to find the video again, but I saw one showing a male cuttlefish with his display split lengthwise: mating patterns showing to a female, and aggression patterns showing to an approaching male
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Quick! Where’s the Wrong Rec Room?
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If you ever find it again, please post to the unicorn thread!
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