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The world's biggest squids (accurately named "giant" and "colossal") have the world's biggest eyes, which may seem like a no-brainer until you consider that they are by no means the world's biggest animals . And yet, their eyes are more than twice ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Mar 26 2012 - 11:11pm - 0 attachments

... which looks like this: This starts and ends as a Mr. Octopus of Spiderman fame. Dead in the middle, every point gets in line. I ...

Article - Doug Sweetser - Feb 29 2012 - 10:19pm - 0 attachments

To be specific, the Humboldt squid are back in California . Their opening act was a mass stranding on Black's Beach in San Diego last Saturday. A lifeguard had the most poetic commentary on the matter: "Of course, as you might imagine, there ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Jan 15 2012 - 7:33pm - 0 attachments

A long time ago, in an ocean far, far away . . . I'm sorry, I couldn't resist! I just couldn't resist . But of course it's not really true. Argentina and the British-owned Falkland Islands have been fighting over their squid resources sin ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Jan 12 2012 - 12:07pm - 0 attachments

... Technically, the suction cups covering all squid and octopus arms are also adhesive organs! Sure, it's mechanical ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Jan 10 2012 - 1:48pm - 0 attachments

... prepare yourself by watching (or re-watching) the drunk octopus' YouTube channel. That was a joke; the drunk octopus doesn't have a YouTube channel (as far as I know). But if he did, it ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Jan 4 2012 - 2:24pm - 0 attachments

... in this app? A-ha! Crabs*! Anyone who's ever kept an octopus knows that octopuses loooove them some tasty crabmeat. It makes sense, ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Jan 4 2012 - 1:54pm - 0 attachments

... starfish, barnacles, sea anemones, and potentially an octopus. The images show huge colonies of the new species of yeti crab, ... of stalked barnacles. It also found an unidentified pale octopus, nearly 2,400 metres down, on the seafloor. (A) Active ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 3 2012 - 9:09pm - 0 attachments

... There's also a nice post linked about the color-changing octopus and squid that I neglected to cover here. I'll blog about sinking ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Jan 3 2012 - 1:41am - 0 attachments

A new paper in the African Journal of Marine Science turned me on to the genus Lycoteuthis , an open-ocean squid just bristling with light organs. According to Vecchione and Young : Presumably they exhibit considerable bioluminescent cour ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Dec 9 2011 - 1:01am - 0 attachments