Friday Squid Blogging: Edible Squid Postcards
Not postcards with pictures of squid, but actual squid postcards. From Japan, of course.
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Friday Squid Blogging: Photographing the Giant Squid
Another will try:
Marine biologist Peter Batson says he plans to try photographing giant squid at a depth of 3000m off the coast of New Zealand.
Mr Batson, who runs a New Zealand company, Explore The Abyss Ltd, with his father, told the Courier-Mail newspaper in Brisbane that he will use a remote-controlled camera to snap the squid.
Friday Squid Blogging: PowerSquid
To the reader out there that got me a PowerSquid: thank you.
(And here’s a home-made version.)
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Captured on Video
Japanese researchers have captured a giant squid on video. Great pictures, too.
Friday Squid Blogging: USB Memory Squid
No, really. Makes a fine Christmas gift.
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.
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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.
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.