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Imagining aliens helps us think about evolution If we ever do make contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence, what will it look like?  Hollywood has had no shortage of examples for films and television shows that feature aliens, but they a ...

Article - Michael Shermer - Apr 28 2011 - 2:20pm - 0 attachments

I've been to Tasmania a couple of times ; it's certainly a hot spot for squid research. And also, it turns out, for the squid themselves. The Mercury  has  brought to my attention  that Tassie waters are home to both the wo ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Nov 12 2011 - 10:58pm - 0 attachments

... has Lorenzo Lamas in it, and he did "Megashark Vs. Giant Octopus". Link: IMDB . The psychologists say they believe the Salem ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 11 2011 - 7:00am - 0 attachments

On October 8th, Octopus Day, I wrote about the incredibly strange Seven-arm Octopus , Haliphron atlanticus . I invoked its tremendous size, irregular ... into a cooler and then onto their boat. Back on land, the octopus submitted to admiration by the local fishermen and had its measurements ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Oct 17 2011 - 6:55pm - 0 attachments

... 2011 Cephalopod Awareness Days . October 8th is Octopus Day. There are some weird octopuses out there, I'll grant you. The tiny-but-deadly blue-ringed octopus. The Dumbo octopus with its "ear flaps"--actually fins. But I propose ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Oct 8 2011 - 10:02pm - 0 attachments

Two items of tremendous note today, to wit: The 2011 International Cephalopod Awareness Days begin tomorrow! It's no accident that this date also marks TONMOCON , the fourth biannual gathering of cephalopod enthusiasts. Unfortunately for m ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Oct 7 2011 - 12:39pm - 0 attachments

October's Circus of the Spineless is up at Wanderin' Weeta's blog! Go read the horrific tale of the emerald cockroach wasp, admire the metallic teeth of the chiton, and much much more! Of course, there are some teuthological goodies as well, but my av ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Oct 3 2011 - 3:20pm - 0 attachments

So, one time for my middle school gym class I was required to write an essay about a sport. Any sport. Unfortunately, I hated all sports. Fortunately, I was blessed with a creative spirit, so I invented a new sport to write about. This is the opening para ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Oct 21 2010 - 5:45pm - 0 attachments

... As the name suggests, it's a squid that looks like an octopus. Babies have eight arms and two tentacles, but they lose the tentacles ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Sep 23 2011 - 11:04am - 0 attachments

... course, succumbing to the deadly embrace of a blue-ringed octopus? When I wrote about the toxicity of flamboyant cuttlefish ... paper. They published on samples from two species of octopus and one species of cuttlefish. That's it. They may have data from more ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Nov 3 2009 - 10:09pm - 0 attachments