Archive for the 'Cephalopods'

Molluscs have amazing super-powers. (via It’s Okay to be Smart) But you know what? So do humans. We air-breathing terrestrial bipeds are able to enter strange alien worlds and return with a digital record of the events that even the lubbers among us can appreciate.

(From TONMO, on a page about raising captive cuttlefish)

At first glance, I thought it was an epiploon or omentum, but no, it’s a lovely octopus mother tending her brood. Go hug your mom right now, or if she’s not nearby, hug a mollusc instead.

My version of science is puttering around quietly in an air-conditioned lab. Peter Ward’s version involves travel to exotic oceans, pirates, death, and crippling risks to life and limbs. And cephalopods. Excuse me, I have to go curl up quietly in a dark corner and feel inadequate for a while.

How else is Google Maps going to get coverage of the 70% of the planet underwater? (via Cephalove)