Apr 09 2013
This cocktail, called “The Kraken” by its purveyors at the Whitehouse-Crawford restaurant in Walla Walla, WA, is one of the worst abominations I’ve ever seen. Here’s the description by the restaurateurs: spicy, dirty vodka martini with tentacles In other words, they take an innocent little cephalopod and mercilessly plunk it into a so-called “martini” made …
Apr 05 2013
(via the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Hey, I just realized that it’s been about 25 years since I’ve been to Monterey Bay…I should go again.)
Mar 29 2013
This pretty pink photo that accompanied the article has nothing at all to do with the contents; this can’t be the species involved. But that’s appropriate to the devious nature of the story. A squid was caught in China that had swallowed a three pound bomb — a live explosive that was later detonated by …
Mar 22 2013
(Found on a site called The Cephalopodiatrist. I wish I’d thought of that name.)
Mar 08 2013
Last year, the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium caught a paper nautilus that survived long enough to lay a few tens of thousands of hatchlings. It must be nice to be a member of a species that’s beautiful at every stage of life, rather than none.
Feb 22 2013
You’d think with all those arms they’d have at least one free to focus and set the exposure. This is a picture taken by an octopus who stole a divers’ camera. The diver chased it and got the camera back. Otherwise, we’d be waiting for the octopus to get online and upload the pictures to …
Feb 08 2013
I need more photos of the flying squid — there are too few floating around the web.
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