The Z-Letter Archive » Cephalopods

LUMINOUS SQUID ON THE BEACH

Matthew Cobb — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:09:27 +0000

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.)

COLOSSAL SQUID

Matthew Cobb — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:48:31 +0000

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.

GLOWING SQUID

Matthew Cobb — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:56:32 +0000

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.

MORE WONDROUS SEA STUFF

Matthew Cobb — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:04:05 +0000

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 Nature article (Uni/Athens needed to get past abstract).

FILM OF OCTOPUS WALKING BACKWARDS!

Matthew Cobb — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:54:08 +0000

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.