How do you get two dead Giant Squid the size of a school bus from a fishing boat in Spain to a museum in Washington, DC, USA? Call in the Navy! Find out how Operation Calamari unfolded and how the museum managed to put their new Giant Squid on display. Photo Credit: Glenn Rankin, Smithsonian Institution Download a transcript of this podcastread moreDuration: 3:33Published: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:59:18 +0000
Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas)A Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas) dashing in front of the ROV camera. This photo was taken at a depth of -481.8 meters in Sur Canyon as a part of a deep-sea coral expedition conducted by NMFS aboard the R/V Shimida in December, 2010.From SIMoN
Dr. Roger Hanlon who studies cephalopod camouflage at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA describes the mesmerizing "passing cloud" pattern displayed by the male Giant Australian cuttlefish.
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The "Little Cuttlefish", Sepiola atlantica. Also known as the Atlantic Bobtail, it is a species of bobtail squid native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean (65N to 35N), from Iceland, the Faroe Islands and western Norway to the Moroccan coast.
This species differs from the giant cuttle and mourning cuttle in it's reddish blotched colouration (although this one changed colour several times whilst being photographed), relatively round body and eyes with a smooth socket and yellow edge. The mourning cuttle has a long mantle that extends between the eyes, and the giant cuttle has skin flaps on it's body and behind the eyes.
Attribution: Miguel Cabanellas (Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies).With a refined and tenacious tactic of predation, the European squid (Loligo vulgaris) has captured a bream (Sparus aurata) launching its tentacles and applying a lethal bite in the prey column. The image captures the moment when the squid seizes the prey with his arms. Highly Commended in the BMC Ecology Image Competition 2012:BMC Ecology 2013, 13:6 doi:10.1186/1472-6785-13-6www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6785/13/6
