That’s right, its a giant squid ready to eat the ivory-billed woodpecker! It is this years poster for the True/False Film Festival.
View More Bird's Taste Good!Category: Organisms
Bird’s Taste Good!
That’s right, its a giant squid ready to eat the ivory-billed woodpecker! It is this years poster for the True/False Film Festival.
View More Bird’s Taste Good!Bad Day For Hagfish Revisted
Some of my favorite science writers are not at National Geographic or Nature, but rather at the Monterey County Herald. They skillfully cover much of…
View More Bad Day For Hagfish RevistedBiggest Squid Ever! Part 2
Here are the pictures I promised yesterday of the new catch… From Dominion Post…MONSTROUS CATCH: A colossal squid, weighing about 450kg, was caught by a…
View More Biggest Squid Ever! Part 2Biggest Squid Ever!
Sweet Jesus! Several news agencies are reporting that New Zealand fisherman in the Ross Sea caught the LARGEST SQUID EVER FOUND. It’s not Architeuthis dux,…
View More Biggest Squid Ever!GIANT ISOPODS!
Via Akeakamai, I found this gem of a video from JAMSTEC’s Shinkai 6500. The video shows several typical scavenging organisms, crabs, eels, and GIANT ISOPODS…
View More GIANT ISOPODS!Voracious Deep-Sea Squid
The film captured the squid, Taningia danae, in action: 1 The squid swims towards the bait; 2 It spreads its arms wide; 3 It swims…
View More Voracious Deep-Sea SquidSea Monsters Explained
So we all know that seamonsters are whale wedding tackle. Joe Nickell over at the Skeptical Inquirer discusses the “Mysterious Enitites of the Pacific Northwest”. …
View More Sea Monsters ExplainedWalking Fish
From 120m in the North Sea. A frogfish maybe from the genus Antennarius
View More Walking FishJust Science #4: The Impacts of Big Animals
Are large deep-sea organisms stingy eaters, voracious predators, home wreckers, or construction workers? It might be a bad day to be a small deep-sea animal.
View More Just Science #4: The Impacts of Big Animals