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Schneier on SecurityA blog covering security and security technology. « Airport Security | Main | Friday Squid Blogging: Rare Squid Washes up in Tasmania » July 13, 2007Friday Squid Blogging: OctosquidUpdate: Or not. Turns out it was an ordinary squid with its tentacles torn off. Video of a real eight-armed squid, Tanigia danae, here. Posted on July 13, 2007 at 4:13 PM • 3 Comments • View Blog Reactions To receive these entries once a month by e-mail, sign up for the Crypto-Gram Newsletter. Huh. I was still sorta right. http://petroniusarbiter.blogspot.com/2007/07/friday-squid-blogging-prediction.html Posted by: petronius at July 13, 2007 5:20 PM Fascinating critters, those Mastigoteuthis - the photo at the bottom of this Tree of Life webpage is just wonderful..... "Two species (M. hjorti, M. magna) have been observed from submersibles drifting just above the ocean floor and dangling tentacles within a few mm of the bottom, presumably, to capture copepods and other small plankters of the epibenthic zooplankton (Roper and Vecchione, 1997). The photograph below shows the same behavior in a species off Hawaii. .... This posture where the extended tentacles emerge from the lateral membranes (tentacular sheaths) of the ventral arms and are held apart by these arms is called the "tuning fork" posture (Roper and Vecchione, 1997)." Posted by: Pierre Arronax at July 13, 2007 5:39 PM SF novel Manifold Time uses a bio-enhanced trained squid to pilot a spaceship. The Posted by: longnow at July 18, 2007 12:52 PM Post a comment
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