Sweet Jesus! Several news agencies are reporting that New Zealand fisherman in the Ross Sea caught the LARGEST SQUID EVER FOUND. It’s not Architeuthis dux,…
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GIANT ISOPODS!
Via Akeakamai, I found this gem of a video from JAMSTEC’s Shinkai 6500. The video shows several typical scavenging organisms, crabs, eels, and GIANT ISOPODS…
View More GIANT ISOPODS!Voracious Deep-Sea Squid
The film captured the squid, Taningia danae, in action: 1 The squid swims towards the bait; 2 It spreads its arms wide; 3 It swims…
View More Voracious Deep-Sea SquidSea Monsters Explained
So we all know that seamonsters are whale wedding tackle. Joe Nickell over at the Skeptical Inquirer discusses the “Mysterious Enitites of the Pacific Northwest”. …
View More Sea Monsters ExplainedWalking Fish
From 120m in the North Sea. A frogfish maybe from the genus Antennarius
View More Walking FishJust Science #4: The Impacts of Big Animals
Are large deep-sea organisms stingy eaters, voracious predators, home wreckers, or construction workers? It might be a bad day to be a small deep-sea animal.
View More Just Science #4: The Impacts of Big AnimalsJust Science #1: What Is The World’s Largest Invertebrate?
Kim didn’t miss much. She went into Final Jeopardy with $15,000 and won the match by a scant $1 by correctly identifying the world’s largest invertebrate (answer: “What is a giant squid?”).
But was she right?
Just Science #1: What Is The World's Largest Invertebrate?
Kim didn’t miss much. She went into Final Jeopardy with $15,000 and won the match by a scant $1 by correctly identifying the world’s largest invertebrate (answer: “What is a giant squid?”).
But was she right?
Tentacles Cash
One of my favorite artists and favorite subjects together. Johnny Cash + Squid = Tentacles Cash (via this website). Much better than a blending of…
View More Tentacles CashWhy Do Large Creatures From the Deep Always Attack Japan?
Workers from the Japanese Aquarium captured video of deep-sea shark lurking about the shallows of Awashima Port. The species, Chlamydoselachus anguineus or frilled shark, is…
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