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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Attacking
Beautiful time lapse photos of a squid, Loligo pealei, seizing its prey.
…such a splendidly baroque little carnivore.
Indeed.
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Egg Sac Baffles Researchers
From Norway:
“It was 50-70 centimeters (19.5-27.5 inches) in diameter and looked like a huge beach ball. It was transparent but had a kind of thick, red cord in the middle. It was a bit science-fiction,” Svensen told newspaper Bergens Tidende’s web site.
The Svensens contacted associate professor Torleiv Brattegard at the University of Bergen, and other experts were notified to try and solve the mystery.
[…]
Colleague Arne Fjellheim, who works with Stavanger Museum, tipped off Brattegard that the organism resembled a photograph from New Zealand that he had seen. A zoology professor and squid expert in New Zealand corroborated by email – the peculiar gelatinous ball was a large squid egg sack.
“The gelatinous lump contains several fertilized eggs. This is not at all a common sight, because squids are some of the most inaccessible animals known,” Fjellheim told iBergen.no.
Fjellheim told Aftenposten.no that squid are found in such numbers along the Norwegian coast that they are a commercial catch, and used mostly as bait. Despite this, extremely little is known about their biology.
Friday Squid Blogging: Greenland Squid Balls
A snack:
These snacks had a cheese puff-like consistency and were a bit larger than your typical cheese balls. They had a somewhat fishy but sweet taste upon first biting in, and then the fishiness got stronger and worse with subsequent bites, with a hot taste also kicking in and then lingering for the aftertaste. Everyone who tried these just hated them. Nobody was able to eat more than one squid ball. The hot flavor on its own might have possibly been good, but we’ll never know, because the squid taste was bad, and the combination of flavors just didn’t work and tasted awful.
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid in New Zealand
“The 8.23m-long dead giant squid is the star attraction in Kelly Tarlton’s Underwater World Freaky Fish exhibit, which opens today.”
Friday Squid Blogging: Gurney Drive Hawker Center
The Gurney Drive Hawker Center is one of the best places to eat in Penang, Malaysia. They sell squid prepared many ways.
Friday Squid Blogging: Archibald
Meet Archibald, a 15-foot-long stuffed squid who lives in New York. He even has a MySpace profile.
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.