Octopus with 96 tentacles
This octopus has 88 extra tentacles. The rare specimen is on display at the Shima Marineland Squarium. From Pink Tentacle:
Extra-tentacled octopus (Pink Tentacle, thanks Nat!)The preserved octopus actually has the normal number of 8 appendages attached to its body, but each one branches out to form the multitude of extra tentacles. Apparently there is no theory that fully explains the surplus tentacles, but they are believed to be the result of abnormal regeneration that occurred after the octopus suffered some sort of injury.

The preserved octopus actually has the normal number of 8 appendages attached to its body, but each one branches out to form the multitude of extra tentacles. Apparently there is no theory that fully explains the surplus tentacles, but they are believed to be the result of abnormal regeneration that occurred after the octopus suffered some sort of injury.
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C'thulhu fhtagn!
Fractal Octopus would be a great name for a techno band.
It's into fractals.
fractalpus
Can I just be first to say.
We salute our many tentacled overlords....
(ahh the banality of teh interweb!)
#1: You beat me to it!
we warned his parents about acid, but noooo.
Oh, wait... I just noticed this was in Japan. Why doesn't that surprise me?
In other news, tomorrow is free calamari day at the Shima Marineland Aquarium!
#1 and #5 BOTH beat me to it. Glad to see that we geeks are all on the same wavelength. =)
- David Stein
You mean you didn't immediately think of the 24-tentacled octopus from Schoolhouse Rock's "Three is a magic number?"
That octopus died of indecision.
I was only wondering why this was not tagged Cthulhu? What do you mean there is nu Cthulhu tag? I thought this was BoingBoing?
"TWO OCTPUSES GOT MARRIED AND WALKED DOWN THE AISLE ARM IN ARM IN ARM IN ARM IN ARM IN ARM IN ARM IN ARM IN ARM IN ARM IN ARM IN ARM IN ARM IN ARM IN ARM IN ARM."
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E.T., the Extra Tentacle.
echolalia...echolalia...echolalialalialalia...echoechoecholalalia
.............echolalia
hey! speaking of the grotesque, the monstrous and the unexpected: what did you think of Hellboy 2? Loved the Troll Market!
Hellboy II was great. Best Fantasy based film I've seen in a long time. Thank The Gods for G. Del Toro.
That Wink character was so seamless in CG I thought of it as an actor throughout. Great work there. The Golden Army didn't quite though.
It wasn't more than a decade ago that Mike Mignola could be found sitting at a table at a Comic Con chatting with a couple of fans and signing comics. He sold me a Hellboy pin that's still on my motorcycle jacket. It's gratifying that an original talent has been recognized and promoted. I look forward to Hellboy III: The Terrible Twins Arrive.
But does it favor one of the 96 tentacles more than the others, and how quickly can it solve a rubik's cube?
Thank you toxic pollution.
Oh, the hentai?
They didn't find this octopus near the new accelerator at CERN, did they?
"Abnormal regeneration"? Sound like a TUMOR!
Too many tentacles
for one octopus
to be writhing
You're gonna writhe
writhe, writhe, writhe
ninety-six tentacles
"Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places."
"abnormal regeneration", like in the last Doctor Who?
I think my SAN just got lowered...
Surely, it is a sign from the FSM. Top that, tortilla Jesus!
Kaneda! Help Meeeeeeee!
Can this be the opposite of a unicorn chaser from now on?
You can get an understanding of how something like this can happen by reading Sean Carroll's Endless Forms Most Beautiful.
Eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
MUTANT!
hmmm wonder if he was left or right tentacled?