#o. deletron

[molabuddy]

oh ive gotten into the remembering scientific names phase of creature autism havent i ....

[dfwnews]

O. Deletron’s Lost Limb

O. Deletron’s Lost Limb

0. Deletron loves bits. Our band loves bits nearly as much as we love making music. We feel that it’s fairly natural to supplement our likely outdated ’90s-worship, indie-rock musical aesthetic with a healthy dose of Camus-inspired absurdity. We will be the ones to release our first album on VHS cassette as the only physical format. None of our liner notes credits any band member by name, only…

[animaltoday]

Octopus Squid (Octopoteuthis deletron)-

O. deletron, is a deep sea dwelling cephalopod and is under multiple scientific studies due to its handful of strange traits.

It is unique to the O. deletron to be (one of the?) only squid to have only eight arms and no tentacles. Babies (bottom left) lose their two tentacles as they mature. Light flashing photophores at the tips of the arms attract prey, and possibly mates. O. deletron is able to drop parts of its arms at will. The sharp “teeth” on its arms hook onto predators and prey. If needed, the squid can detach any arm at any length (unlike an octopus that drops the entire tentacle). Like a lizard tail, the arms grow back.

Also unusual among squid, the O. deletron sports a large penis. In the photos, o. deletron displays small white dots on near its mantle. These are sperm packets deposited by passing males. Since they are solitary and live in the deep sea, finding a mate is difficult. Whenever a male o. deletron meets another member of its species, it will deposit its sperm packets regardless of the gender of its companion.

Photos: (top) (bottom left) (bottom right)

[molabuddy]

this article talked about O. deletron - i believe are one of a few species known as "octopus squid". they can tell when they're looking at a member of their own species, but really struggle to tell females from males. so the males will just mate with any other o. deletron they come across... it seems like they're doing fine so i guess this works alright for them? trying their very best out there

happy pride month..

[molabuddy]

they do kinda the same thing that o. deletron the bisexual squid does. since they can't really tell the difference between females and males of their own species, the males try to mate with any other blue ring they come across in hopes of finding a female. trying their best out there....

last night i learnt that blue ring octopuses are also bisexual