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First-person account of someone accidentally catching several Humboldt squid on a fishing line. No photos, though.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Nice short article on the bobtail squid.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Here’s the story. The commenters on X (formerly Twitter) are unimpressed.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
In a rare squid/security combined post, a new vulnerability was discovered in the Squid HTTP proxy server.
What scientists thought were squid fossils were actually arrow worms.
Yet another SQUID acronym: “Stable Quasi-Isodynamic Design.” It’s a stellarator for a fusion nuclear power plant.
Beautiful photo.
Difficult to capture, this mysterious, squid-shaped interstellar cloud spans nearly three full moons in planet Earth’s sky. Discovered in 2011 by French astro-imager Nicolas Outters, the Squid Nebula’s bipolar shape is distinguished here by the telltale blue emission from doubly ionized oxygen atoms. Though apparently surrounded by the reddish hydrogen emission region Sh2-129, the true distance and nature of the Squid Nebula have been difficult to determine. Still, one investigation suggests Ou4 really does lie within Sh2-129 some 2,300 light-years away. Consistent with that scenario, the cosmic squid would represent a spectacular outflow of material driven by a triple system of hot, massive stars, cataloged as HR8119, seen near the center of the nebula. If so, this truly giant squid nebula would physically be over 50 light-years across.
New research:
One reason the early years of squids has been such a mystery is because squids’ lack of hard shells made their fossils hard to come by. Undeterred, the team instead focused on finding ancient squid beaks—hard mouthparts with high fossilization potential that could help the team figure out how squids evolved.
With that in mind, the team developed an advanced fossil discovery technique that completely digitized rocks with all their embedded fossils in complete 3D form. Upon using that technique on Late Cretaceous rocks from Japan, the team identified 1,000 fossilized cephalopod beaks hidden inside the rocks, which included 263 squid specimens and 40 previously unknown squid species.
The team said the number of squid fossils they found vastly outnumbered the number of bony fishes and ammonites, which are extinct shelled relatives of squids that are considered among the most successful swimmers of the Mesozoic era.
“Forty previously unknown squid species.” Wow.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
New research.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Tips on what to do if you find a mop of squid eggs.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.