Giant Squid!

The news is all over the interweb: scientists, for the first time, captured (on film) a giant squid. National Geographic has a great little gallery, which hopfully will become a giant gallery.

The article describes, "The photo sequence, taken off Japan's Ogasawara Islands in September 2004, shows the squid homing in on the baited line and enveloping it in "a ball of tentacles."

Now if I could only find that giant lemon to go with the giant stick of butter...

Octopods in Action! , or, Pulpy Pulp!

I'm fond of descriptive phrases such as "foody with goodness"; here quite rightly, this is all pulpy with pulp...

Many of you know my fondness for octopods and squid... so I was also excited that Boing Boing had this link to a gallery of Octopus related pulp magazine covers. Too much fun.

The gallery explains, "The octopus, known as poulpe in French, polip in Hungarian, and polypous in Classical Greek, is justifiably the essence of pulp."

they didn't think these legs could walk

Ever since (in 1999?) my friend Annie Murdock made me my pointy fur (fake) hat with curtain tassels, I've been known as Squid Boy among certain friends.

I've cultivated a certain interest in squid and octopi, so this article and video of an octopus walking on the sea floor caught my attention.

Bipedal locomotion was thought to require muscle pulling against hard skeleton. But the octopuses walk using opposing muscle movements, a technique the researchers think requires little brain control.