Wikipedia @ 25: Cirrothauma Murrayi

To celebrate the site’s 25th birthday this year, Wikipedia is encouraging/challenging people to read one Wikipedia article a day for 25 consecutive days. I felt that I could do one better than that: not only reading an article but – where I found one that was particularly interesting – to write a blog post or record a podcast episode for each of those days, sharing what I learned. For each entry, I’ll hit “random article” a few times until something catches my interest, start reading, and then start writing! Everything I’ve written below came from Wikipedia… so you should check other sources before you use it to do your homework. Happy birthday, Wikipedia! Today’s random article: Cirrothauma Today’s topic: Cirrothauma murrayi My random landing page today is a genus for which there’s only a single species, so I hopped over to that species’ page. And what a species! Somehow it looks more like an alien than octopodes normally do! Drawing produced by Carl Chung in 1910. This is the blind…