Ecology & Zoology

X-ray imaging technology is helping scientists better understand how snakes lost their legs during evolution and perhaps help help resolve the debate about whether they evolved from a terrestrial…

Giant Squid Kill Fishermen, courtesy of Weekly World News, "The World's Only Reliable News." Marine biologists rushed to the scene hoping to catch at least one of the squid. Dr. Luis Santiago of the…

FIS (Fish Information and Services, the "most comprehensive website for the commercial fishing industry") has a run of recent squid news. Let's start with Illex argentinus, the Argentinian shortfin…

Today I am going to send you over to Deep-Sea News for your squid fix. Because Dr. M has just made the compelling case that Giant Squid Are Awesomesauce. There's really not room for debate. (There…

Boingboing science editor Maggie Koerth-Baker says everyone loves cephalopods because they are AWESOME. I agree 100%.

Has anyone else heard of a "massive 20ft. octopus" washing ashore in the Bahamas last week? I hadn't until this article, which also comments on a recent octopus stranding in Portugal (presumably the…

Treehugger did an interview this week with deep-sea biologist Edith Widder. She's done some very cool research by creating devices to imitate deep-sea animals, in order to attract other deep-sea…

Cephalopod Tea Party is having a cephalopod pin give-away. To be entered in the drawing you must write a cephalopod-themed haiku! Although I probably have more than enough cephalopod tchotchkes, I…

Then you really should consider attending Euroceph, a new meeting this year with the tagline:Cephalopod Biology Research in the 21st Century - A European Perspective. We would like to remind all of…

I know, I know, I won't shut up about squid fishing. But the Salinas Californian has a neat human-interest article about the closure of the market squid fishery, bringing the message home to Homo…