Friday Squid Blogging: 1873 Giant Squid Stored in Bathtub
Newfoundland naturalist Moses Harvey collected the first complete specimen of a giant squid in December 1873.
He kept it in his bathtub.
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Newfoundland naturalist Moses Harvey collected the first complete specimen of a giant squid in December 1873.
He kept it in his bathtub.
Two squid-shaped fishing lures.
A water sink toy designed to simulate a squid.
An apparatus for gutting squid.
A method for detection of a monovalent cation, using a photoprotein derived from squid.
Actually, it looks kind of dorky.
It contains high levels of arsenic.
Pity, I kind of like squid jerky.
Amazing video of squid giving birth.
Seems like there’s some hysteria in the making:
They are deadly, huge and fast moving. Their tentacles can suck the life out of a human being and they’ve arrived in Northern California.
The whole article is like that.
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.