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Rare Sighting Of Dashing, Two-Legged Hairy Sprinting Crab?

In latin it’s called Thaumoctopus mimicus, but I’d call it The Master. It’s Meryl Streep in octopus form. There are ocean animals that can change shape, imitate plants, rocks, flora, and I’ve blogged about some of them. But this octopus is special. It seems to study other creatures and then imitate them, copying their moves and their bodies. It can do sea snakes, lionfish, flatfish, giant crabs, sea shells, stingrays, jellyfish and weird beings that have no name, and maybe no earthly existence. Is it imagining? I don’t know, but no scientist has ever seen a shaggy sprinting bi-pedal crab — until our octopus decided to be one. -

Very cool critter


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    CREEEEPY
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    EVERYONE. STOP WHAT YOURE DOING AND WATCH THIS. YOU WILL NEVER LOOK AT FISH THE SAME WAY AGAIN.
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    HOLY CRAP WHAT JUST YOU WAIT ONE DAY THEY WILL BEGIN TO MIMIC HUMANS AND THEN WE WILL ALL BE DOOMED DOOOOOMED Also this...
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    look at this thing…
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    This is the underwater ditto of the real world
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    Nature is pretty awesome.
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    Fuck yeah!
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    real life ditto
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    Very cool critter
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    SCIENCE. I’m pretty sure...we’re all doomed. Forget Zombie Apocalypses, the
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