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NYTimes.com - Carl Zimmer visits Dr. Roger Hanlon in his lab at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA.

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  • @coldfyre18 I dunno man they freak me out. I mean there are people who sceram when they see a creeper. I'm not freaked out by creepers but squids freak me out man. Especially when they're swimming in shallow water and their tentacles are sticking out and stuff. That shit aint right.

  • @Alenthas What's so scary about squids then?

  • @coldfyre18 no are you?

  • @Alenthas Are you a girl?

  • "Ink in my face."

    They say it like its a usual thing at a marine biology lab.

    "Meh, ink in my face. again."

    "Walk it off, you pussy."

  • squids are fucking scary. I fucking hate them while playing minecraft. scarier than creepers :D

  • god, i hate the narrator

  • The camouflage works like this, the cuttlefish has little microscopic balls of colored ink/gel in small round packs with strands of muscle around it. When it wants to change its color the brain makes the muscles pull pulling the sphere into a flat disc, each sphere has a different color. Underneath these are patches of color which are the template for it. Splotches of black blue and green. That's how they use their magic camouflage (as seen on nova ;P)

  • 1:52 - they're watching the watchers, looking for exploitable weaknesses, probing our minds with their psychic powers.

  • @themrfj Especially on the scientists head! You can clearly see his forehead gaining several lines, when he makes certain facial expressions. This simply can only be CGI!

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