- Bizarre Parasite May Provide Cuttlefish Clues
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... Adelaide research into parasites of cuttlefish, squid and octopus has uncovered details of the parasites' astonishing life cycles, and ... live in the kidneys of cephalopods (cuttlefish, squid and octopus). They are the very first dicyemid species to be described from ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 15 2014 - 9:20am - 0 attachments
- Biosphere 2 Ocean - A Living Lab In The Desert
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... forest and a cactus-studded island. A variety of fishes, octopus, moray eels, stingrays, and possibly even sea turtles and giant squid ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 6 2014 - 5:00am - 0 attachments
- Artificial Euglenids: Smaller, Softer Robots Have A Cuter Image
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... of tomorrow, what comes to mind are the tentacles of an octopus or the trunk of an elephant rather than the mechanical arm of a crane ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 5 2013 - 4:19pm - 0 attachments
- Live Blogging The Science Of Ghostbusters
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... was a big deal by then. Spider-Man had even fought Doctor Octopus at the swanky new Brookhaven lab a few years earlier. (1) You have ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 30 2013 - 9:34pm - 0 attachments
- Trypophobia? The Most Common Phobia You Probably Never Heard Of
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... reaction. The animal in question, the blue-ringed octopus, is one of the most poisonous animals in the world, which led Dr Cole ... of various poisonous animals, including the blue-ringed octopus, deathstalker scorpion, king cobra snake, and other poisonous snakes ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 3 2013 - 11:30am - 0 attachments
- Cthulhu Lives!
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... have a name inspired by science fiction. The octopus-like movements and appearance of both protists reminded lead author and ... and Cthylla . Cthulhu was depicted as a giant, octopus-like entity with wings and Cthylla is his daughter. So Cthulhu ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2013 - 10:16am - 0 attachments
- Cretaceous Octopus With Ink And Suckers -- The World's Least Likely Fossils?
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... the rarest and unlikeliest of fossils. The chances of an octopus corpse surviving long enough to be fossilized are so small that prior ... than octopuses have legs. Everyone knows what an octopus is. Even if you have never encountered one in the flesh, the eight ...
Article - News Releases - Dec 22 2012 - 12:00pm - 0 attachments
- Are We Alone In The Cosmos, Cursed By Fermi's Paradox?
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... apes, sea lions, crows, parrots... even prairie dogs and octopus, who now show signs of some linguistic ability and problem solving ...
Article - David Brin - Dec 1 2012 - 8:15pm - 0 attachments
- ICAD 2012: Top Ten Cephalopod Stories From The Last Year
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... don't attack albatrosses or pelicans in mid-air. But their octopus cousins have found a way to dine on fowl without any need for flight. Yes, an octopus ate a seagull . 8. In fact, it sometime seems as if octopuses exist ...
Article - Danna Staaf - Oct 11 2012 - 2:09am - 0 attachments
- Scavenging Cephalopods: Mild-Mannered Vampire Squid Just Want To Eat Waste
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... ago. So let's forget about them. That leaves us with the octopus, squid, and cuttlefish—very modern cephalopods who lost their shells, ... (most likely a different pair) was lost entirely in the octopus. In the case of Vampyroteuthis , another pair (probably not the same ...
Article - Danna Staaf - Oct 3 2012 - 2:41pm - 0 attachments
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