Ecology & Zoology
- Measuring Invertebrates Is A Bit Tricky
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A biologist friend of mine recently heard from a journalist who was fact-checking a squid article. (Go, conscientious journalism!) The article included the line "the Humboldt squid is five feet long from beak to tentacle tip " and the journalist ...
Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Oct 4 2009 - 12:47am
- Calamari Makes the Ursine Menu
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A couple of years ago, during one of these flurries of Humboldt squid activity in the Pacific Northwest, people were reporting headless squid bodies on the beach. It turned out that at least one and possibly several local wolves had caught on to the protei ...
Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Oct 4 2009 - 7:44pm
- Return of the World's Cutest Squid
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My personal favorite sepiolid is the striped pyjama squid. It burrow in the sand! It secretes mucus! And it is spelled in the British way! Seriously, nothing should be allowed to be that cute: As a bonus, its eyes are closed in this picture, to minimize po ...
Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Oct 6 2009 - 12:25am
- Squid Can Regenerate, But They're No Sorcerer's Brooms
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I get some bizarre hits from my google squid alert, like this opinion piece discussing the "Democratic Squid." Squid-A-Day has nothing to say about Chicago, the Olympics, or Obama's foreign policy, but at least I can set the record straight ...
Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Oct 6 2009 - 4:56pm
- Four-Fin, Spiny-Skin--Strange Squid off of Grand Cay-min!
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Chiroteuthids (ky-ro-tooth-ids) are crazy weird squid; their most notable feature is having two sets of fins on the "tail end" of their mantles as paralarvae. To me, this is nearly as bizarre as imagining a whole family of mammals in which babies ...
Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Oct 7 2009 - 8:33pm
- Happy Octopus Day!
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Today begins the Third Annual International Cephalopod Awareness Days! Naturally, since it is the eighth of the month, we are honoring octopods today. This provides the perfect opening for my favorite cephalo-rant: the etymologically correct plural of oct ...
Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Oct 8 2009 - 5:12pm
- Happy Nautilus Night!
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On this, the second of the International Cephalopod Appreciation Days, we turn our attention to the pearly nautilus, and "other lesser-known extant and extinct cephalopods." My favorite is the spirulid, or ram's horn squid. I was introduced ...
Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Jan 9 2012 - 10:45am
- Happy Squidurday!*
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Wistfully I wish you all a very happy Decapod Day! The Cephalopod Awareness Days have been fun, and I can hardly believe they're coming to an end. Many thanks to Jason of Cephalopodcast for turning this year's celebration into a three-day event! ...
Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Oct 11 2009 - 12:11am
- The Littlest Squid
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I've mentioned a couple of obscure "squids" here already, the bobtail squid (sepioids, actually more closely related to cuttlefish) and ram's horn squid (spirulids, which form their own evolutionary offshoot of decapods). Today I am her ...
Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Oct 12 2009 - 12:27am
- Global Warming Has Been Good If You Like Seafood
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If you like big scallops for dinner, we have good news- ocean warming, at least in UK waters, has increased stocks of the great scallop Pecten maximus, according to a study published in Marine Biology. But further rises in water temperatures could have the ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 12 2009 - 10:41am
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