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    Making me glad I’m not an ecdysozoan

    But timelapse is always cool.

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    • PZ Myers
    • 23 June 2010
    • Organisms

    Why squid? Why, squid!

    People are always asking me, “Why squid?” Here’s why.

    The cool thing about biology, though, is that you could pick any taxon and make a video about how awesome its members are. Squid just have the advantage of the exotic, living in environments unfamiliar to humans, and so they leap out at us as particularly weird and alien.

    (via Success is not an option)

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    • PZ Myers
    • 22 June 2010
    • Cephalopods, Organisms

    Mary’s Monday Metazoan: Cranky, cranky, cranky

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    • PZ Myers
    • 21 June 2010
    • Organisms

    Friday Cephalopod: Cruisin’ for love

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    Sepioteuthis sepioidea

    Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.

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    • PZ Myers
    • 18 June 2010
    • Cephalopods, Organisms

    KO!

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    • PZ Myers
    • 17 June 2010
    • Organisms

    Botanical Wednesday: Bloomin’ Blue

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    Iris sanguinea

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    • PZ Myers
    • 16 June 2010
    • Organisms

    Mary’s Monday Metazoan: Supercow

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    • PZ Myers
    • 14 June 2010
    • Organisms

    Friday Cephalopod: It’s watching you

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    (via National Geographic)

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    • PZ Myers
    • 11 June 2010
    • Cephalopods, Organisms

    Botanical Wednesday: Cross-phylum canoodling

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    • PZ Myers
    • 9 June 2010
    • Organisms

    Mary’s Monday Metazoan: Cat being a cat

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    Panthera pardus pardus

    Bonus video: you be the judge. A cat showing compassion, or a cat with a new toy?

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    • PZ Myers
    • 7 June 2010
    • Organisms
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