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Open Thread (Squid) April 20

April 20, 2009 – 9:33 am

We love having you comment here at First Blog On The Moon but it’s a little bit difficult for discussion to continue uninterrupted on specific posts when off-topic comments land in the middle of them. So when I can’t think of anything else to do I will cop out and start an open thread where [...]

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What I did on my holiday

January 15, 2009 – 4:04 pm

 The first thing I did on my holiday was to lie down. After the long drive and the excitement of hurtling away from home there is nothing better than unpacking and then having a lie down. On the bed, on the floor, on the beach if you are organised enough. Not even the collapse of [...]

By Firstdog | Also posted in Cockatoos | Comments (6)

Giant Squid (Magnapinna sp. C) has elbows. Shock!

November 25, 2008 – 11:10 pm

This is a giant squid Big Fin squid. They have elbows now. This is one of those living way down deep doesn’t get seen very often Giant Squid. The question that springs to mind of course is: Why does a giant squid need elbows? Obviously it doesn’t, and yet there they are. If there was [...]

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Otto the Octopus

November 2, 2008 – 4:48 pm

 

The tale of Otto the octopus is sad and remarkable all at once. Sad because he gets locked up in an aquarium for our benefit, and remarkable because he CAN JUGGLE HERMIT CRABS! He throws rocks at the glass in his tank to break it and he figured out how to extinguish a spotlight by [...]

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The Australian Giant Cuttlefish (Sepia apama)

September 15, 2008 – 4:33 pm

The Colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) is a really really enormous squid, the biggest in fact. It is even bigger than the Giant Squid (Architeuthis dux et al) which is also really really enormous. They are both however, way bigger than the Australian Giant Cuttlefish even though, as cuttlefish go, it is gigantic (1.5 metres).
And the [...]

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