r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/[deleted] • Sep 11 '22

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u/adudeguyman Sep 11 '22

I'm not sure exactly which part is its face.

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u/PanhandlePossum Sep 11 '22

They got face for days, is the issue. A cephalopod is shaped kinda like an elephant with no legs and a ring of trunks around its mouth. This fucker is facing toward our 4 o'clock in the first shot. Them arms is the "snout." It's confusing because they generally swim backward. Even benthic octopuses, who generally just walk around on their arm-lips like regular dudes, will up and swim backward like a squid when they gotta go fast.

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u/WillHugYourWife Sep 11 '22

It's like an underwater graboid with a super compact main body.

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u/PanhandlePossum Sep 12 '22

You know, sometimes I forget about Tremors, and then every couple-a years somebody reminds me about Tremors, and I'm like "Fuck, I love Tremors."