Category Archives: Cephalopods
LUMINOUS SQUID ON THE BEACH
April 2007 Cool video of Firefly squid coming to shore in Japan in order to lay their eggs. (BBC news, may not work outside UK.)
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COLOSSAL SQUID
February 2007 That’s actually it’s official name (ie it’s much bigger than a giant squid). This is the first intact specimen to be landed (10 m long, weighing 450kg, it took two hours to land it.
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GLOWING SQUID
February 2007 Amazing video of glow-in-the-dark squid attacking a lure trailed in a deep-sea marine biology study. BBC summary here, Guardian version here, original article from Proceedings of the Royal Society (free access) here.
Filed under Behaviour, Cephalopods, Videos
MORE WONDROUS SEA STUFF
January 2007 Superb trippy YouTube video (lasts nearly 6 minutes, it takes a bit of time to get into it, but it really is stunning). The science behind it all can be found here at the Tree of Life, and in this … Continue reading
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FILM OF OCTOPUS WALKING BACKWARDS!
October 2006 This film is taken from the Supplementary Material of a Journal of Experimental Biology article about various forms of octopus locomotion, which can be found here. Both links are open access.
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