even more squiddities and sepiidies of the schooling class - the other cephalopod thread

BEAUTIFUL! MORE! MORE!

Bigfin reef squid
https://blog.explore.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/bigfin.jpg

Firefly squid

https://goo.gl/images/GHp9wr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPX-HO9ubVA

we're baaaack
https://images.theconversation.com/files/368783/original/file-20201111-23-s7a4xm.png
https://theconversation.com/this-super-rare-squid-is-a-deep-sea-mystery-we-recently-spotted-not-1-but-5-in-the-great-australian-bight-149831

oh I guess that wasn't cute enough for you octopus bigots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtWdva-9qr4

To make amends from that *other* thread, here's a pygmy squid:

https://do.lolwot.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/10-of-the-strangest-cephalopods-lurking-in-the-oceans-1.jpg.webp

https://www.lolwot.com/10-of-the-strangest-cephalopods-lurking-in-the-oceans/

And here's a link to the blinged out strawberry squid: https://twilightzone.whoi.edu/explore-the-otz/creature-features/strawberry-squid/

so fine

Whatever this weirdo was: https://www.museumoftheearth.org/exhibit/heteromorph-ammonite

Summer 1980 I was super-lucky to be part of a road trip/fossil dig for a palentology museum and for four days we camped out just outside of Worland, Wyoming and dug out bucketfuls of ammonites and belemnites. At that same stopover I also saw my first rodeo and cowboy I guess (if you define it as someone who casually open carries a six-shooter as they would their hat), but it wasn't nearly as impressive as standing on a hill made out of jurassic squid parts.

Here's the background on the place: https://thenaturalhistorian.com/2016/10/11/hiking-through-the-jurassic-period-in-wyoming-a-sheep-mountain-fossil-hunt/

(heads up, that site is largely concerned with reconciling divine creation with the truth of the geologic record but it's a good description of the Sheep Mountain Anticline. Nevertheless, the Squid Gods will come for us all)