Inside a Nautilus are the normal organs—the caecum, the stomach, the crop, the nidamental gland, etc.—with normal names and known functions. However, my favorites, yes…
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Category: Cephalopods
New Video of Giant Squid Surfaces
Video of a very large squid swimming near a dock made the rounds last week across many social media streams. The squid is actually an Architeuthis, aka the…
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The See Life Collection
Shameless Self-promotion Alert: This article was written on a recent exhibit I put together for the National Park Service. Though this collection spans both the…
View More The See Life Collection6 times an invertebrate punched a vertebrate in the face (and it was awesome)
A guest post from Katie Thomas, a graduate student at Duke University researching the evolution of bioluminescence in squids. (@katiethomas10) For those of us who love the…
View More 6 times an invertebrate punched a vertebrate in the face (and it was awesome)My favorite deep-sea GIFs
Comb Jelly, Phylum Ctenophora The giant deep-sea jellyfish, Stygiomedusa gigantea Siphonophore Blanket Octopus, Tremoctopus sp. Dumbo Octopus, Grimpoteuthis Vampire Squid, Vampyroteuthis infernalis Giant Squid, Architeuthis…
View More My favorite deep-sea GIFsTop 10 GIFs of Ocean Animals Eating Other Animals
1. Cone snail eating whole fish 2. Orca taking a seal 3. California angel shark eating a California horn shark 4. Goblin shark eating a fish 5.…
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Dramatic Cuttlefish is Dramatic with Bonus Video
Deep Underwater from Alex Soloviev is a sequence of trippy music and great underwater footage. The theme music is Solar Walk 3-Event Horizon by Astropilot. So yeah…trippy.…
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“It’s like a deep-sea version of Truck Nuts”
Yes, that’s a direct quote from National Public Radio. I was giggling this weekend when I turned on the legendary NPR quiz show Wait Wait..Don’t…
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Baby Giant Squids
We know almost nothing about Giant Squids with mantles lengths less than 1000 mm (~40 inches). Very young squids are even more enigmatic than adults. A…
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It’s early Monday morning. You really don’t want to work. Well let me help you out. Grab that cup of coffee, grab your mouse, and…
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