Cephalopod Awareness Day Alert #4

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One last compendium, I think, unless I find unusually large quantities of Cephalopod Awareness links in my mailbox tomorrow.

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New research published in the journal, Animal Behavior, has shed light on an extraordinary adaptation of unborn cuttlefish: the ability to visualize prey while they are still in their egg casings.
A reader sent in this intriguing question in response to the previous post on cuttlefish: "What is there vision like? Do they really see around them clearly enough to have evolved mimicry?"
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a dolphin that has mastered the tric

*applause for the Cuttlefish Poet!*

How to eat a cephalopod, if you're a mosasaur.

Yes, except that it's illustrated with a very nice picture of a crocodile eating an ammonite.

By David Marjanović, OM (not verified) on 08 Oct 2007 #permalink

Yes, except that it's illustrated with a very nice picture of a crocodile eating an ammonite.

heh, yeah didn't even notice that, being that the focus of the article was on the picture of the mosasaur-punctured fossil nautiloid (a far more interesting pic!).

well, the author did say "And me with nothing to wear, and shoes that don't match my dress, and a handbag that's so last season..."

Sigh... I knew there was a reason I didn't specialise in vertebrate palaeontology. Still, you have to admit it's a cool picture, and I composed the whole post in a bit of a rush at 10.30 at night. Those are my excuses and I'm sticking to them!

I thought it was a well done little article, considering.

I'd never seen that paper before, and I appreciate your bringing attention to it.

I've had Tako-yaki (Octopus balls). They're wonderful. Imagine Hush Puppies with diced octopus in them. Equally wonderful are Ika-yaki: Squid balls.

Here's a recipe for Takoyaki.

Man oh man, double dactyls are hard. That was brilliant.

How to eat a cephalopod, if you're a mosasaur.

Yes, except that it's illustrated with a very nice picture of a crocodile eating an ammonite.

By David Marjanović, OM (not verified) on 08 Oct 2007 #permalink