Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
I’m really liking these CreatureCast videos Casey Dunn’s students put together — and there are two new ones, on moray eels and stomatopods. That’s communicating science!
Also, Dunn has a new book, Practical Computing for Biologists, also available on Amazon right now. I’m going to have to get a copy; it might be a good idea to introduce more students to the basics, too.
(via SteveV, Death’s Haberdasher)
These are a pair of movies made of a Loligo opalescens mating frenzy off the shores of La Jolla. Squid do everything with gusto.
Squid Run from David R. Andrew on Vimeo.
Are we all clear on this now?
Enough. Everyone is describing this new species of deep sea worm as squidlike. IT IS NOT. It’s segmented, it swims with undulations of bristles, it’s got appendages on its head, not its foot, that it uses to trawl for food.
It’s a lovely beastie, but how can anyone mistake it for a squid? What’s next, is the Guardian going to cover a sheep-shearing in Scotland and talk about all the four-legged squid gamboling about?
