Friday Squid Blogging: Making a Squid Flower

@Rob Mayfield:
“Octosquid is a silly name. Why not Squipus ?”
Your comment reminds me of a Flanders and Swann song – #3 of “Songs for our time”. The name of the song in an indescribable silly noise. As Flanders put it, “It was originally called, ah, ‘[a different indescribable silly noise]’, but we thought that sounded rather stupid …”

Striped Pyjama Squid • July 7, 2007 5:04 PM

As far as I can tell, the “octosquid” claims are mostly hype. It’s in no way intermediate between octopus and squid; it’s just a squid with no tentacles, which is not unheard of — there are other squid species that don’t have tentacles as adults. Note that they’re talking about it as a possible new species in an existing genus, not a representative of a new family or order.

It’s cool-looking, though.

David Conrad • July 8, 2007 2:23 AM

Crap, I come here to pass on a link to the Octosquid to Bruce, and everyone else already beat me to it? I guess Friday Squid Blogging is pretty popular!

http://starbulletin.com/2007/07/05/news/story03.html

Ben • July 9, 2007 7:25 AM

Making a squid flower is easy: just feed it Miracle-Gro.

Michael Foote • July 12, 2007 11:27 AM

From Australia for your next Friday Squid Blog.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/07/070711-squid-picture.html