cephalopods
pharyngula | March 8, 2013Last year, the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium caught a paper nautilus that survived long enough to lay a few tens of thousands of hatchlings.
It must be nice to be a member of a species that's beautiful at every stage of life, rather than none.
pharyngula | February 22, 2013You'd think with all those arms they'd have at least one free to focus and set the exposure. This is a picture taken by an octopus who stole a divers' camera.
The diver chased it and got the camera back. Otherwise, we'd be waiting for the octopus to get online and upload the pictures to youtube.
pharyngula | February 8, 2013I need more photos of the flying squid — there are too few floating around the web.
pharyngula | January 25, 2013I expect you all to remember that the Discovery Channel will be airing their new episode with footage of the giant squid this Sunday evening. I know what I'll be watching.
pharyngula | January 4, 2013Last spring, the All England Squid Fishing Championships took place, in which hundreds of fishermen strove to catch the largest squid. Unfortunately, the weather was not conducive to good fishing, and they caught nothing. Well, except for one person who discovered this cute little guy cling to his jig.
The winner!
This gives me hope. I'm going to sign up for a beauty contest right away.
pharyngula | December 28, 2012I am actually staying home for several weeks, and it feels so good and relaxing. So this is kind of a self-portrait, I think.
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pharyngula | December 7, 2012It's the last day of classes, after a very long and agonizing semester, and this guy looks how I feel: stressed, with gnashy tentacles and a livid complexion. I feel for any students who come to my office with questions about the final — I'm straining to be nice and helpful, but what I really want to do is rampage through the ocean shredding everything I meet.
OK, deep breaths. Deeeeep breaths. I will get through this day. Just dream of Squidmas, all will be well.
(via Arkive)
pharyngula | November 23, 2012I'm just making my way through this weekend, taking care of business.
(via Wired)
pharyngula | November 9, 2012Probably because he's already at Skepticon, and I'm not.
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pharyngula | October 29, 2012I approve this plan. A number of researchers have gotten together and worked out a grand strategy for sequencing the genomes of a collection of cephalopods. This involves surveying the phylogeny of cephalopods and trying to pick species to sample that adequately cover the diversity of the group, while also selecting model species that have found utility in a number of research areas — two criteria that are often in conflict with one another. Fortunately, the authors seemed to have found a set that satisfies both (although it would have been nice to see the Spirulida and Vampyromorpha make…
