Entries Tagged "squid"
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Friday Squid Blogging: Contaminated Squids
We’re contaminating the squid:
The toxic chemicals that Vecchione and colleagues from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science found are a rogues gallery of scary initials: PCBs, TBTs, BDEs, and DDT among them. Scientists classify all of them as POPs, or persistent
Friday Squid Blogging: Cuttlefish Embryos Can See
Usually, cuttlefish eggs lie in an envelope full of black ink. But this clears as the embryos grow older, leaving them growing within translucent eggs.
These unborn cuttlefish also have fully developed eyes. That leads the researchers to conclude that the cuttlefish embryos must peer through their eggs, and learn to recognise their prey, a behaviour which will help give them a head-start in life.
Friday Squid Blogging: Tentacle Arm
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishing Lures
EDITED TO ADD (4/10): Link fixed.
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fiction
This week, on a writing blog called Elephant Words, every story is based on this squid image. Click forward on the blog entries to see the fiction.
Friday Squid Blogging: They're Defrosting a Colossal Squid in New Zealand
News here, here, here, here, here, and here. And stories about the squid’s big eyes here and here.
(It is certainly colossal: 1,089 pounds and 26 feet long.)
There’s live video. There’s also a lecture series. Video will be available on the Web.
EDITED TO ADD (5/9): More.
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.