A bigfin reef squid, or glitter squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana) in Sulawesi, Indonesia
by Karsten Kretz
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When I followed you earlier today and then realized this blog wasn't even two days old it made me feel like I invested in a startup.
Do you think if you did the lyrics for Fireflies by Owl City, your database would give us fireflies? (Will also accept owls. And there's a line about sheep too).
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Closest match: Sepia lycidas genome assembly, chromosome: 36
Common name: Kisslip cuttlefish
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squid gifs for you all this evening
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I'm a squid biologist on a mission
To bring squid facts to you. To your friends. To your neighbors. To some random dude named Brad who you've never met.
How? The Squid Facts Project. It's a street art campaign and hotline that texts folks squid facts!
Only snag in this hair-brained plan is that texting people is kiiinda expensive. So! I teamed up with Philly artist Corey Danks to sell shirts to keep the hotline running. Every one of those shirt dollars helps deliver squid facts to people.
Like, over 70,000 people over the last year!!! Isn't that wild?
So anyway. Get a shirt. They're cool, *and* they keep people learning about squid. It's a beautiful thing.
Also, the backs have the squid facts hotline on them so by wearing these you're helping people learn about squid too.
If you can't buy one, give us a reblog. I run a small science education nonprofit called Skype a Scientist, we're scrappy but trying so hard!!
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John Singer Sargent, Two Octopi, 1885
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Daily Cephalopod #186
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Cephalopod lovers, meet the stubby bobtail (Rossia pacifica)! With a mantle length of only up to 2 in (5 cm), this tiny critter typically spends its days buried beneath the sand, emerging at night to feed. Shrimp comprise nearly 80% of this species’ diet, but it also preys on small fishes and even other cephalopods. It can be found in coastal waters from Japan to California.
Photo: kcram, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist
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can you do one about vampire squids ? 🦑
Vampyroteuthis infernalis or Vampire Squid
It's (very dramatic) scientific name means "vampire squid from hell". However, the vampire squid is not actually a squid! It's actually the only animal in the Vampyroteuthidae family! It's separated into its own family because it can't change color or produce ink. Instead, it turns itself "inside out" (as shown above) to deter predators.
Proportionally, vampire squids also have the largest eyes compared to their body size! They eat mostly zooplankton, marine snow, and other organisms waste. They grow to be about the size of a football and live to be around 8 years old.
There's even evidence that vampire squids have been around since the Jurassic period- almost 200 million years ago!
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i made my very own marine meme what are your thoughts
10/10. You ate that up
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Hello! Love your blog! I’ve come to ask for a certain animal: one such that might occur scurrying in forests, or gamboling in tree tops. Little victorious carnivores, precocious dancers too!
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Closest match: Sepia lycidas genome assembly, chromosome: 35
Common name: Kisslip cuttlefish
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Three of my recent cephalopod paintings, in order of creation. Nautilus on blank skateboard, Kraken on wood panel, Japanese Firefly Squid on blank skateboard.
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Posting intermittently for Mutation March this year, here's some frilled lizard ghosts!
Bonus octopi:
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