The Smallest Cephalopods Known

 Idiosepiius hallami, attached to a seagrass blade, Cudgen Creek, northern NSW. Image: M. Reid

These little Australian movers, a new species of pygmy squid measuring about 2 cm in body length, are so diminutive that they are "the smallest cephalopods known.” My heart is just squeezing right now. My, what A TINYLY FACE YOU HAVE. I kiss your sleepsy eyes! I put you in my pocketses! 

Pygmy squid specimens. Image: Wikipedia.

"Smallest cephalopods known" is a great title for a book of poetry so have at it, poets; marine science has thrown you a bone, again. Remember this TKO of the glowing blue waves of your subconscious courtesy of bioluminescence?

 Water is a metaphor. Image: National Geographic. 

"The pygmy squid is so cute it hurts," writes Azula. It could fit on your fingernail.  It would make great earrings for Ursula the Sea Witch. It would make great earrings for me and go with my labradorite cocktail ring of spirituality, however I'm reading Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of The Animal Movement while eating the leftovers of a Wegman's Italian meatball sub (my morals are spotted grayness), but I swear it is the last one I will ever have I swear.

Fingers crossed.