Release the kraken?
From Reefbuilders For the last week or so, the popular science press has been gushing over the announcement that a giant Triassic Kraken not only killed and ate giant ichthyosaurs, not only arranged their bones, but even arranged their bones in what may be the very first ‘self portrait’. How exciting! A huge, intelligent, self […]
Just a little information TANKED?
From Reefbuilders This is a video of a big aquarium – doesn’t a little information about how its run and how the animals are cared for make it more exciting? Like many of us, I have been thinking about the new television show TANKED. The great discussion so far about the show has been really […]
Coconut Octopus grows and opens jars
http://vimeo.com/28020083 In the three months since we put an Amphiocotpus marginatus we collected in the Philippines on display at the Steinhart Aquarium, the octopus, named Fontenelle, has been engaging visitors to the aquarium. Fontenelle is in plain sight 95% of the time, often in interesting ‘lookout’ poses, playing with toy squid and toy octopus, or […]
Commensal fish and Mimic Octopus? Science in action!
From Advanced Aquarist blog and TONMO Last week Godehard Kopp posted the video above of a Mimic Octopus, Thaumoctopus mimicus, and an un identifiable fish swimming amongst its arms at the divesite Jahir in the famous muck diving area of Lembeh Strait, Sulawesi Indonesia (the video of the octopus and fish starts at about. :44). Kopp followed the […]
Nerd Nite SF 7/20/11
Nerd Nite SF #14: Ancient Rome, Cephalopod Sex, and Bed Bugs Wednesday, 7/20 Doors at 7:30, show at 8 Rickshaw Stop, 155 Fell St @ Van Ness $8 All ages http://vimeo.com/28031082 Facebook event Here in San Francisco, July is NOT the month for chasing ice cream trucks, running around in sprinklers, and wearing cut-offs and […]