• More cephalopods in the news

    Updated: 2010-05-29 05:12:51
    Bringing things back to our own temporal stomping grounds, the Holocene (aka, Now), here are two news stories that serve as nice addenda to a couple of recent posts. First, we have some new research about the metabolism of Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, Sensational Squid #2; National Geographic: “Colossal Squid a Soft, Sluggish Drifter” Summary: A study published in the [...]

  • Flickr Friday: Parapuzosia seppenradensis

    Updated: 2010-05-29 01:57:32
    Parapuzosia seppenradensis. (replica), originally uploaded by muzina_shanghai. I’m still in a paleontological mood after yesterday’s big news, so here is another big fossil…literally. Parapuzosia seppenradensis is desmoceratid ammonite from Late Cretaceous Germany, and it is the largest known ammonite species. An incomplete specimen found in 1895 had a diameter of 1.95 meters (~6 ft), and in [...]

  • Meet Nectocaris, a 500 million year old cephalopod

    Updated: 2010-05-28 01:06:59
    Today it was announced in the journal Nature that the mystery of Nectocaris pteryx, a problematic fossil species from the famous Burgess Shale deposits, has finally been solved. This tiny Invertebrate that lived in the Cambrian oceans 500 million years ago is, in fact, the oldest known cephalopod. [UPDATE: The image I originally used in this [...]

  • Wednesday Comics: Up from the depths

    Updated: 2010-05-27 04:43:57
    This dramatic scene takes up pages 12 and 13 of Brightest Day #1. (The cover date is “Early July 2010,” but it actually came out a few weeks ago.) The size limitations of the blog don’t really do this splash page justice, but you should be able to tell that there is something not quite [...]

  • Toddler Tank Top Tuesday: “Hang On” by Kids’ Headquarters

    Updated: 2010-05-26 04:09:35
    It’s been quite a while since Kid Indie Squid Kid made an appearance here, but he’s back and ready for Summer! (As it turns out, they don’t make very many cephalopod-themed Winter baby clothes.) This tank top (OK…maybe it’s technically a “muscle shirt,” but that’s not nearly as alliterative) features an topsy-turvy green octopus gripping a [...]

  • Ten Sensational Squids: Giant Squid (#1)

    Updated: 2010-05-22 05:11:46
    At long last, we come to the end of my countdown of Ten Sensational Squids, a close-up look at a few of my favorite Teuthids. The top spot belongs, of course, to the rock star of the squid world, the darling of cryptozoology, and the species that got me started on this whole cephalopod obsession [...]

  • The weird and wonderful Argonaut

    Updated: 2010-05-19 16:07:30
    PZ Myers posted this video of Argonauta argo (aka, the Greater Argonaut) on Pharyngula this morning, and I just had to follow suit. See my article Eight Awesome Octopuses for more information on this fascinating pelagic cephalopod. (It’s octopus #4 on the list.) .

  • T-shirt Tuesday: “Octopus with a Bubble Gun Goes PEWPEW” by Shirt.Woot!

    Updated: 2010-05-19 04:33:49
    This is Mur, one of my best and oldest friends. She rocks. Her awesome octopus shirt is available on Shirt.Woot! for $15.00. I’m not sure why we don’t give all octopuses bubble guns, because “PEWPEWPEWPEW” has got to be one of the greatest onomatopoeia of all time. Well, sure these newly weaponized cephalopods might rise up [...]

  • Flickr Friday: Under Glass

    Updated: 2010-05-14 01:48:32
    Preserved Giant Squid, originally uploaded by murdocke23. Here’s a sneak preview of the final installment of the Ten Sensational Squids countdown. Full post to follow.

  • Wednesday Comics: Beware the Atomic Flying Elbow!

    Updated: 2010-05-13 04:50:07
    The Umbrella Academy is a thoroughly delightful series written by Gerard Way with art by Gabriel Bá and published by Dark Horse Comics. Instead of a continuous on-going series, Umbrella Academy is released as separately numbered mini-series, beginning with Apocalypse Suite #1 (September, 2007). The original Umbrella Academy was made up of seven extraordinary children, each [...]

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