Friday Squid Blogging: Video of Kid Eating Squid
It’s hard to tell if he likes it.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
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Friday Squid Blogging: Prehistoric Sentient Squid—Or Not
There’s big news in the world of giant squid:
Researchers initially thought that this strange grouping of 45-foot-long marine reptiles had either died en masse from a poisonous plankton bloom or had become stranded in shallow water.
But recent geological analysis of the fossil site indicates that the park was deep underwater when these shonisaurs swam the prehistoric seas. So why were their bones laid in such a bizarre pattern? A new theory suggests that a 100-foot-long cephalopod arranged these bones as a self-portrait after drowning the reptiles
Here’s a good debunking:
There is no direct evidence for the existence of the animal the McMenamins call “the kraken.” No exceptionally preserved body, no fossilized tentacle hooks, no beak—nothing. The McMenamins’ entire case is based on peculiar inferences about the site.
Friday Squid Blogging: Hundreds of Squid Wash Up on Southern California Beaches
Humboldt squid are washing up on beaches across Southern California. Seems like it’s no big deal; the squid just swam too close to shore.
Friday Squid Blogging: Interesting Squid Recipes
Plus a slide show of pretty dishes.
Friday Squid Blogging: Sex Life of Deep-Sea Squid
There’s evidence of indiscriminate fertilization in deep-sea squid. They mate with any other squid the encounter, male or female.
This unusual behaviour, they said, may be explained by the fact the squid is boosting its chances of successfully passing on its genes in the challenging environment it lives in.
In the Royal Society paper the team writes: “In the deep, dark habitat where O. deletron lives, potential mates are few and far between.
“We suggest that same-sex mating behaviour by O. deletron is part of a reproductive strategy that maximises success by inducing males to indiscriminately and swiftly inseminate every [squid] that they encounter.”
Basically, they can’t tell males from females in the dark waters, so it just makes sense to mate with everybody.
The press is reporting this as homosexuality or bisexuality, but it’s not. It’s indiscriminate fertilization. PZ Myers explains.
Friday Squid Blogging: Beautiful Squid Drawings
From Italy.
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Friday Squid Blogging: SQUIDS Game
It’s coming to the iPhone and iPad, then to other platforms:
In SQUIDS, players will command a small army of stretchy, springy sea creatures to protect an idyllic underwater kingdom from a sinister emerging threat. An infectious black ooze is spreading through the lush seascape, turning ordinary crustaceans into menacing monsters. Now a plucky team of Squidseach with unique personalities, skills, and ability-boosting attiremust defend their homeland and overturn the evil forces that jeopardize their aquatic utopia.
More:
…which they describe as Angry Birds meets Worms, with RPG elements. “For the universe, Audrey and I share a passion for cephalopods of all sorts, and that was a perfect match with the controls I had in mind,” Thoa said.
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishing in Ulleungdo, Korea
The industry is in decline:
A generation ago, most of the island’s 10,000 residents worked in the squid industry, either as sellers like Kim or as farmer-fishermen who toiled in the fields each winter and went to sea during summer.
Ulleungdo developed a reputation for large, tasty squid that were once exported to the mainland and Japan. The volcanic island, which can be circumnavigated in three hours by car, is also known for its seaside cliffs and picturesque views, which have begun to attract more tourists.
The number of mainlanders who visit here has risen from 160,000 a decade ago to 250,000 last year. Meanwhile, the total squid catch has decreased by more than a third. Nowadays only 20% of islanders work in the squid industry, with many having shifted to the tourism trade, said Park Su-dong, a manager in the island’s marine and fisheries office.
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Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.