"Actually, to The Register that seems like a remarkable recuperative capability, since it doesn’t seem to involve coffee, cigarettes, or a defibrillator."

I feel sorry for the ElReg hack's significant other(s) ...

Bah 3 hours amateurs

7cm

Might sound ok on a dish, but remember they shrink by 50% when you cook 'em.

I suffer from similar shrinkage if someone suggests cooking sensitive parts.

Given that they have multiple tentacles

... how would you tell that a squid was walking a bit bow-legged?

Praise be

to their fondle-y appendages.

'both males and females changing colour during the copulation (from yellow to dark purple “with green and orange highlights).'

I assume this is some sort of progress meter?

Ah great, thanks to that research China will be hunting them to extinction as a cure for Small Tonka Syndrome.

on a side note

My wife and I recently tried a new type of prophylactic whose inside was coated with benzocaine, a supposedly mild anaesthetics . Let's say that we were still at it more than an hour later, since as far as I am concerned I had no more Appendage and felt pretty much nothing at all. If it wasn't for her being tired, yeah, we could have matched the 3 hour feat, like those lovely squids.

"lifetime of less than a year"

Yes, but what a life !