By Miriam Goldstein, on  March 19th, 2010 Art, Cephalopods!, TGIF: Pictures & Movies 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Captain Nemo, Comics, Funnies, Jedi, Octopus, squid Apparently Batman + Lightsaber vs. Shark was just the start of an oceanic comics avalanche. Please enjoy 20,000 Leagues of DANGER!!! from the excellent comic Hark! A Vagrant. Poor giant squid, just wanting to be loved. Also a Jedi octopus from Hijinks Ensue! Ha ha, now the lightsaber is on the other tentacle! Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action . . . → Read More: Friday Cephalocomics
Steve O’Shea’s end game is to rear a giant squid in an aquarium. Step 1, try something easier first. He is rearing broad squid, Sepioteuthis australis, and has set up SQUIDCAM – a movable web-cam which operates 24/7 – so that enthusiasts around the world can monitor his progress. Earlier attempts in 2000 saw him reach . . . → Read More: Giant Squid in an Aquarium
CreatureCast Episode 1 from Casey Dunn on Vimeo. Hat tip to Pharyngula. Like PZ said, “This is communicating science”. Well done on the part of the Dunn Lab at Brown University. Make sure you visit CreatureCast and sign up for their RSS feed! Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}CreatureCast Episode 1 from Casey Dunn on Vimeo. . . . → Read More: TGIF: Color Me Squid
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wonderferret/ / CC BY 2.0 He was a squid from the wrong side of the ocean. She, a mild mannered but inquisitive squash from a rural farm. Theirs was a love that was forbidden. What blossomed was more than love and the relationship eventually proved fruitful. Hat tip to Urlesque for inspiration. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px . . . → Read More: Forbidden Love
Cephalopod Tea Party reports that baby squidlings take first prize in the 2009 Art of Science Competition! Myrmecos has some great photography on 2 spotted maize beetles making little spotted maize beetles. Scicurious from Neurotopia gives us the low-down and science on human erections for this week’s Friday Weird Science. This is a must read! . . . → Read More: A Sexy Friday in the Intert00bz
By Dr. M, on  February 9th, 2009 Adaptations, Biodiversity, Cephalopods!, Mating & Reproduction, New Research, Scientist! Cephalopod, enzymes, freaks, Giant Squid, Japan, Mollusca, sex, sperm, squid, Valentine's Day So was I thinking we could light a few candles, have some wine, and then… Yeah, squids are freaky…real freaky freaks. An article over at Practical Fish Keeping details the work of recent PhD Henk-Jan Hoving. His dissertation makes mine look like rainbows and unicorns. The thrust of his work was to study reproductive techniques . . . → Read More: Squid Cuts Body of Sexual Partner
Can you name the genus of this deep-sea squid? . . . → Read More: One question squid quiz
Urged by a reader and previous buzz, I finally managed to watch the Calamari Wrestler. The movie is an over-the-top satire of Rocky with a Star Wars twist finish. Fortunately it is much better than the festering heap of movie, Rocky XXXIV. The plot is the tale of a wrestler and son of a . . . → Read More: Calamari Wrestler
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