Cephalopods, as a whole, are a particularly weird group of animals. Looking into the strangely human eyes of an octopus or squid, one is struck by the weight of what might have been, had vertebrates not been so quick to grab the aquatic niches. On Spec, an entire world of might-have-beens, the weight of this question approaches that of a sledgehammer blow. Spec's land is home to giant dinosaurs, saved from destruction by happy coincidence, and the oceans are, for the same reason, home to a very wide range of tentacled mollusks.