The cuttles which are found in the British seas are always quite small.
The cuttles employ these suckers for two purposes.
When cuttles are not in a hurry they crawl along by means of their long tentacles, as we told you just now.
He has such a huge, barn-like body to fill, that only these big Cuttles will satisfy him.
These Giant Cuttles have ten arms, two of them being very long.
Lurking in the dark depths of the sea, these Giant Cuttles wait for large fish, Crabs, or even their own relations, to come near.
The ancient Greeks and Romans, who were well acquainted with the various kinds of cuttles and regarded them all as excellent food, and even as delicacies of the table, applied the word "polypus" especially to the octopus.
For the preservation of both of the above described specimens we have to thank Mr. Harvey, and he produces additional evidence of other gigantic cuttles having been previously seen on the coast of Newfoundland.
The Sepiidae are generally known as the Cuttles proper.
In another plate in this most interesting work a Japanese mode of fishing for cuttles is delineated.
The belief in the existence of gigantic cuttles is an ancient one.
They have none of the suckers with which the arms and tentacles of all the other cuttles are furnished, but their annulose structure, like the rings of an earthworm's body, gives them some little prehensile power.
This family becomes extinct at the close of the Mesozoic, though the cuttles as a whole perhaps culminate in the modern.
I have reserved no space to notice the geological history of the other and higher group of Cephalopods, including the true Cuttles and Squids.
The Belemnites must have swarmed in the Mesozoic seas; and as squids and cuttles now afford choice morsels to the larger fishes, so did the Belemnites in their day.
These cuttles are the only invertebrates at all in the running so far as colossal size is concerned, and it will be observed that here the largest modern specimen immeasurably beats the largest fossil form of the same type.
The cuttleshave considerable quantities of this liquor, which is contained in a sort of sac or ink-purse, placed low down in the abdomen.
The cuttles are flesh-eaters, and tolerably voracious.
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