cephalopods
pharyngula | October 31, 2014The Monterey Bay Aquarium is offering a selection of Halloween e-cards…and you can guess which one I'm sending to you!
pharyngula | October 17, 2014I just learned that the Blogess has "giant squid phobia".
Several people are aware of my severe giant squid phobia and lovingly (?) sent me this video of a giant squid attacking a Greenpeace submarine, and that’s unsettling enough, but WHY IS THERE ANOTHER SQUID BEHIND IT SPITTING OUT FIRE? Is that a real thing? Because I was scared enough without adding: “Oh, and also they can shoot a blinding inferno out of their butts like a tentacled, aquatic bonfire.” It’s like half giant squid and half underwater maritime flame-thrower, and that’s not natural and is a sign that all giant squid are…
pharyngula | October 3, 2014 MBARI
Watch the fishing lure action right here -- also pay attention to the closeups that reveal how transparent Grimalditeuthis is.
It would be so cool to be able to see our own guts like that.
pharyngula | September 12, 2014Prepare yourself.
The Te Papa Museum of New Zealand has a new specimen locked in a vault: a colossal squid that will be thawed and dissected (they think!) on streaming video.
Here is the necromantic chamber.
Wait! No protective runes, no array of emergency thuribles, no pentagram, no mysterious idols of jade and obsidian? This may not go well.
pharyngula | August 1, 2014
We're doomed. The Pacific striped octopus is exhibiting complex social behaviors.
Panamanian biologist Aradio Rodaniche first reported the Pacific striped octopus in 1991 off the coast of Nicaragua, noting its strange behavior—living in groups of possibly up to 40, laying multiple egg clutches, and mating face-to-face and sucker-to-sucker. Most other octopus species, for instance, come together only to mate.
Next thing you know, they're making spears, forming hunting parties, warring with one another. And then they develop city-states, philosophy, diplomacy, and politics, and all the…
pharyngula | July 11, 2014Cephalopods are the cutest creatures on the planet. How can you deny it?
Octosquid.io
pharyngula | June 27, 2014It's been cephalopod week, and on Science Friday, they featured our old friend, the vampire squid.
pharyngula | June 20, 2014What? You only play in two dimensions? You're doomed, pathetic human.
TONMO