Nova issued this dire warning in documentary form last month.
NARRATOR: Imagine an alien that can float through space, with a giant brain shaped like a doughnut, eight arms growing out of its head, and three hearts pumping blue blood. This alien lives right here on Earth. It's called the cuttlefish, a flesh-eating predator who's a master of illusion, changing its shape and color at will. It can hypnotize its prey or even become invisible.
And lest you assume we're safe because we live on dry land....
NARRATOR: This is a place of the weird and the wonderful, where standing out or blending in all depends on whether you are predator or prey. It's one of the few places you'll find the rare mimic octopus.
But the strangest of them all is a creature called the flamboyant cuttlefish. For a start, it's walking, not swimming.
MARK NORMAN: It's still really foreign for me to watch a cuttlefish walking around on the seafloor. They actually look like these prehistoric lumbering monsters, sort of walking through these ancient black deserts.
MMM HMMMM.
So, whatchoo gonna do when dread Cthulhu comes for you?
If you're Devra you immediately begin currying favor with the tentacular tyrants intent on transforming the human race into bipedal veal calves!
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