TGIF: Friday Fashion Finds
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By , on January 6th, 2012 2 comments   TGIF: Pictures & Movies, Uncategorized   , , , , , ,  

I’ve been suspiciously quiet on the blogging front lately. The reason: I’ve just completed a cross-country move in the middle of the holiday season (its my second 3000+ mile move in <2 years, but that is another rant for another day). I’ve fled the snowy winters of New Hampshire to take up shop in Jonanthan . . . → Read More: TGIF: Friday Fashion Finds

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There Is More Than One Way To Impregnate A Squid
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By , on August 17th, 2011 3 comments   Adaptations, Cephalopods!, Life Science, Mating & Reproduction, New Research, Open Access   , , , , , ,  

All sperm are not the same. Among fruit flies the longer the reproductive tract of the female the longer the sperm. In tiny crustaceans called ostracods, sperm length can range from several hundred micrometers to several millimeters. And here is some trivia for your next cocktail party, sperm in ostracods can even be longer than . . . → Read More: There Is More Than One Way To Impregnate A Squid

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Tentacle Candlestick Holder
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By , on July 12th, 2011 One comment   Art, Cephalopods!   , , , , ,  

Just ordered a set of these for the banquet table at DSN headquarters.   Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Just ordered a set of these for the banquet table at DSN headquarters.   Broadcast Spawn!Tweet

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Squid Development
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By , on July 6th, 2011 Leave a comment   Adaptations, Cephalopods!   , , , ,  

And then some in this very informative 18 minute video by PacificCoast101 on YouTube. I

KRAKEN Day: Release the Kraken!
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By , on June 1st, 2011 Leave a comment   Adaptations, Books/Media, Cephalopods!   , , , , , , , , ,  

Click to purchase on Amazon! Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid By Wendy Williams Abrams Publishing, 224 pages Reviewed by David Manly for Deep Sea News: When you look at the huge diversity of life on this planet, there are wondrous sites to behold. There are trees that grow until they . . . → Read More: KRAKEN Day: Release the Kraken!

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KRAKEN Day: Defenseless Kraken Hunted by Mean Ole Sperm Whales
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By , on June 1st, 2011 One comment   Adaptations, Cephalopods!, Ecology, Megavertebrate, TGIF: Pictures & Movies   , , ,  

Get the full length video on the Whales Tohora exhibition website. Dive with a sperm whale and join the hunt for the giant squid. This amazing experience is based on real scientific data taken from digital tags (D-tags) placed on sperm whales. From Search and Destroy, Whales Tohora exhibition. From Dr. M in 2007: . . . → Read More: KRAKEN Day: Defenseless Kraken Hunted by Mean Ole Sperm Whales

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From The Editor’s Desk: Giant Squid=Awesomesauce
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By , on January 30th, 2011 5 comments   Adaptations, Biodiversity, Cephalopods!   , , , , , , ,  

In the following post I will enumerate the many ways in which current science repeatedly demonstrates that giant squids are awesomesauce. Awesome: (adj) amazing, awe-inspiring, awful, awing (inspiring awe or admiration or wonder) “New York is an amazing city”; “the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight”; “the awesome complexity of the universe”; “this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to . . . → Read More: From The Editor’s Desk: Giant Squid=Awesomesauce

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Leaping Squid
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By , on November 26th, 2010 One comment   Adaptations, Cephalopods!, Uncategorized   , , , , , , ,  

At bookofjoe there is a nice write up about squid flying out of water. The 2004 paper’s authors argue that “gliding” is too passive a term to describe what squid do when they leave the ocean for the air: “flight” is more fitting. “From our observations it seemed like squid engage in behaviors to prolong . . . → Read More: Leaping Squid

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New squid found in Indian Ocean
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By , on November 15th, 2010 One comment   Cephalopods!, Expeditions, New Research, Seamount   , , ,  

A new species of squid, 0.7 meteres (2.3ft) in length was discovered among the 7,000 samples from taken from seamounts in the southern Indian Ocean. The newly discovered squid is from the chiroteuthids characterized by long slender bodies and fantastic bioluminescence displays. . Via New large squid found in southern Indian Ocean and additional pictures from the . . . → Read More: New squid found in Indian Ocean

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Squids ‘R’ Us
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By , on June 21st, 2010 4 comments   Biodiversity, Cephalopods!   ,  

Awesome squid footage from MBARI! Hat tip to Zooillogix. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Awesome squid footage from MBARI! Hat tip to Zooillogix. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet

 
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