Saturday night was date night, so we went to our favourite Portuguese/Italian restaurant

The colossal #squid was first described in 1925 based on specimens from the stomach of a commercially hunted sperm whale.

Now, an international voyage captured the first confirmed video of this #species in its natural habitat—a 30-centimeter juvenile, at a depth of 600 meters.

Colossal squid can grow up to 7 meters and weigh 500 kilograms, making them the heaviest invertebrate on the planet.

But little is known about their life cycle.

#biology #ecology #evolution
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-century-discovery-scientists-capture-footage.html

A century after its discovery, scientists capture first confirmed footage of a colossal squid in the deep.

From @ConversationUS: https://flip.it/DyQTuK

Deep sea craft filmed unprecedented footage of a colossal squid https://mashable.com/article/colossal-squid-first-ever-live-footage #Cetaceans #MarineLife #Squid #Cephalopod #DeepSea

First ever sighting of a COLOSSAL SQUID

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/science/squid-colossal-deep-sea-exploration.html

Deep sea craft filmed unprecedented footage of a colossal #squid - https://mashable.com/article/colossal-squid-first-ever-live-footage science is amazing; we should do more of it, not less

First Confirmed Footage of a #ColossalSquid—and it’s a Baby!
https://schmidtocean.org/first-colossal-squid-footage/

"The 30-centimeter juvenile #squid was captured on video at a depth of 600 meters by the #ROV #SuBastian. The sighting occurred on March 9 on an expedition near the #SouthSandwichIslands in the South Atlantic Ocean."

https://www.minenest.com/443498/ I BROUGHT A BOMB TO A SOUP PARTY – Stardew Valley #5 #360° #iballisticsquid #Minecraft #pc #squid #squiddy #Stampylongnose #StardewValley #StardewValleyVideos #xbox

Read my latest #research on distribution of #squid in the Southern Ocean and #ClimateChange , published with Marine Ecology Progress Series and co-author @borges_marinus
Photo by José Xavier
Link to Research:

https://doi.org/10.3354/meps14814

https://www.minenest.com/425679/ Playing STARDEW VALLEY For The First Time! #360° #iballisticsquid #Minecraft #pc #squid #squiddy #Stampylongnose #StardewValley #StardewValleyVideos #xbox

#Squid are some of nature's best camouflagers. Researchers have a new explanation
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-squid-nature-camouflagers-explanation.html

Cephalopod chromatophores contain photosensitizing nanostructures that may facilitate light sensing and signaling in the skin https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/tc/d4tc04333b

"Chromatophores are pigmented organs all over the squid's skin... [they] are light sensors that help power squid and their camouflage... It can see whatever light is on the outside and convert it into energy to help distribute camouflage"

Posted on my #pixelfed account @FrawgBerry@pixelfed.art@pixelfed.art for the first time! I’m also looking into uploading a #speedpaint on my #loops account here https://loops.video/@FrawgBerry@pixelfed.art . Let me know if any of you would be interested in seeing my #progress. :) some cool #projects are on the way so stay tuned!

I spent WEEKS trying to get #Squid #ProxyServer to act as a forward-proxy for our instances and cache both HTTP & HTTPS traffic with absolutely no luck.

Installed #ApacheTrafficServer this evening and had everything up and running in 30 minutes.

Jesus fucking Christ.

This shouldn't have been that difficult.

Cephalopod lovers, meet a squid that’s as cute as its name: the dumpling squid! It uses mucus glands in its skin to coat itself in sand, where it waits for prey like shrimp & small fish. Newborn dumplings can snag prey twice their own size.

American Museum of Natural History
@AMNH #Squid #Cephalopods

New Squid album: Cowards!

https://youtu.be/KLYGa1Myq4Q

@KateShaw has released a wonderful episode, which celebrates animals discovered in the last year (approximately).

a new vampire squid, a new pudu, a new soft-furred vampire hedgehog, a new catfish, a new amphipod from nearly as far beneath the ocean as Mt Everest is tall, and a new mini tarantula

https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2025/02/03/episode-418-animals-discovered-in-2024/

#squid
#spider
#fish
#hedgehog
#deer