In December 2007, Portuguese police confiscated 9.4 tons of cocaine in a shipment of frozen octopus from Venezuela. “I suppose it’s possible that someone defrosted the animals, took out the cocaine, then threw their bodies overboard” Even more disturbing is it is more likely a parasite, bacteria or virus.
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By Kevin Zelnio, on  November 27th, 2009  One comment  Art, Cephalopods  Cephalopod, Deviant Art, Octopus Squidy by ~ced66 on deviantART Hat tip to @sevenbullsboy on Twitter. By Dr. M, on November 2nd, 2009 2 comments Cephalopods, Mating & Reproduction Cephalopod, fitness, Graneledone, hectocotylus, microsattellite, Octopus, Paternity, R Kelley, Reproduction, Same Girl, sperm, Usher Greneledone boreopacifica….Are you my daddy? Image from wikimedia commons Yo Ush, What up Kels Wanna introduce you to this girl, think I really love this girl, Yeah? Man she so fine, Straight up dawg? She stand about 5’4” coke cola red bone, Damn She drives a black Durango license plate say “Angel” tattoo on her . . . → Read More: Same Girl
By Kevin Zelnio, on August 31st, 2009 2 comments Expeditions, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Basalt, Juan de Fuca, lava, Octopus, Opisthoteuthidae, ROV DOc Ricketts, Talus Slope A report from Dr. M while he is at sea in the northeast Pacific. You can follow the expedition here. Our first day in the water. The sea is calm and tremendously blue. Of course blue clear water means little primary production at the ocean’s surface. Through the 3.5km of transparent water column, the ROV . . . → Read More: NE Pacific Expedition Day 5
By Kevin Zelnio, on August 2nd, 2009 3 comments Adaptations, Cephalopods, Pictures and Movies Cephalopod, National Geographic, Octopus Hat tip to Cephalopod Tea Party! By Kevin Zelnio, on May 12th, 2009 20 comments Cephalopods, Pictures and Movies, Reviews Debbie Gibson, Lorenzo Lamas, Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus, movie, Octopus, shark Yes, this will be liveblogged as soon as it comes out in video. There is nothing wrong with a B-movie that knows it’s a B-movie. More importantly, there could possibly be nothing horrible about a movie with a GIANT OCTOPUS in it. It’s a known fact. (I am ignoring the fact that Lorenzo Lamas . . . → Read More: In Which the Universe Overheats From a Supernova of Awesomeness
By Dr. M, on April 10th, 2009 6 comments Cephalopods, Organisms, Pictures and Movies cuttlefish, Octopus, Predation, prey, scuba, video It is hard to know what to cheer for here By Kevin Zelnio, on April 3rd, 2009 One comment Cephalopods, Gadgets & Gear Biomimetics, Biomimicry, Cephalopod, New Scientist, Octopus, robot Biomimetics is the field of study where animals provide the inspiration for engineering designs that can be exploited by us, quite literally “life mimicking”. It goes to show there is so much basic organismal biology that we don’t know and so much we can learn from observation and experimentation! Read the full article in New . . . → Read More: TGIF: Robo Octopus Biomimetics
By Peter Etnoyer, on March 6th, 2009 23 comments Cephalopods, Industry & Government, New Species, Organisms, Pictures and Movies Cephalopod, Gulf of Mexico, Octopus, oil rig This video of a swimming Tremoctopus or “blanket octopus” was shot in the Gulf of Mexico in 180 feet of water at Eugene Island South Addition Block 330 in October, 2008. The location is 100 miles from the Flower Garden Banks, close to Sweet Bank, on the outer continental shelf west of Mississippi Canyon. . . . → Read More: TGIF: Strange Blanket Octopus
By Dr. M, on February 22nd, 2009 12 comments Opinion & Editorial, Organisms Annelida, Barnacle, Cephalopod, Coral, deep sea, Echinodermata, feeding, fish, Giant Isopod, girlfriends, Invertebrate, Octopus, puppies, rotifer, salmon, sex, shark, sponge, video In no certain order… 10. Those barnacles just ain’t feeding! This is red hot barnacle copulation! Turn the lights down low, everything’s goin’ to be just right… 9. Humboldt Squid are vicious, blood thirsty demons ready to rip the flesh off any living creature. Of course I tend toward exaggeration 8. Beautiful? Definitely! Slow? Stunningly! . . . → Read More: The 10 Greatest Web Videos of Marine Invertebrates
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