Friday Squid Blogging: Glow-in-the-Dark Finger Tentacles
Archie McPhee sells glow-in-the-dark finger tentacles.
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Friday Squid Blogging: Sperm Whale Eats Squid
A post-mortem of a stranded sperm whale shows that he had recently eaten squid.
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Friday Squid Blogging: Stuffed Squid with Chard and Potatoes
Looks like a tasty recipe.
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Friday Squid Blogging: How Squids See Color Despite Black-and-White Vision
It’s chromatic aberration.
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-Ink Cocktails
Here’s a Corpse Reviver #2 variant with squid ink.
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Friday Squid Blogging: Bioluminescence as Camouflage
There is one feature of the squid that is not transparent and which could act as a signal to prey the eyes. However, the squid has a developed protection here as well. The large eyes of the squid are camouflaged with bioluminescence.
Underneath the eyes of the squid are silvery patches of cells called photophores. These provide under surface bioluminescence which adds to the camouflage. The cells leak put light in multiple directions that effectively make the squid invisible when viewed from above. The resultant glowing blur makes the eyes of the glass squid less conspicuous to predator approaching from a variety of angles.
Research paper.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Friday Squid Blogging: Not Finding a Giant Squid on Google Earth
The Internet is buzzing—at least, my little corner of the Internet—about finding a 120-meter-long giant squid on Google Earth. It’s a false alarm.
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Friday Squid Blogging: Beautiful Squid Sculpture
Two years ago, I posted a photograph of a beautiful giant bronze squid sculpture by Kirk McGuire. He has a new sculpture: a squid table base. it’s also beautiful.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Mechanical Squid
Friday Squid Blogging: More Squids
This research paper shows that the number of squids, and the number of cephalopods in general, has been steadily increasing over the past 60 years:
Our analyses revealed that cephalopod abundance has increased over the last six decades, a result consistently replicated across three distinct life history groups: demersal, benthopelagic, and pelagic… This is remarkable given the enormous life-history diversity exhibited across these groups, which were represented in this study by 35 species/genera and six families. Demersal species, for instance, have low dispersal capacity (tens of km) and occupy shelf waters. Benthopelagic species also occupy shelf waters, but have moderate dispersal capacity (hundreds of km) largely facilitated by a paralarval phase. Pelagic species inhabit open oceanic waters and have high dispersal capacity (thousands of km) facilitated by both a paralarval phase and a mobile adult phase.
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.