Science discovers what’s basically a real-life Pearl from Finding Nemo
Like most things about Finding Nemo, Pixar’s massive 2003 hit depicting the brutal disappearance of a child and his father’s near-manic-inducing efforts to locate him (in retrospect, sort of a forerunner to Prisoners), Pearl the flapjack octopus is adorable. Mercilessly, brutally adorable, in the way that only wide-eyed CGI creations engineered for maximum plush doll sales can be. Many a child probably cried themselves to sleep at night, knowing they would never gaze upon such a creature in real life, where Mother Nature’s tendency to make even the most physically endearing of her children occasionally resemble smelly bath mats seemingly guaranteed no undersea denizen would approach such snuggly perfection. Until now.
