Look At That! Look At That! It’s Cephalopod Sunday! – Penn’s Sunday School

On April 6, 2014, I was on Penn’s Sunday School talking to Penn Jillette, Michael Goudeau and Matt Donnelly about all kinds of stuff including the Bobbit worm. The iTunes blurb – “Rich Ross tells us horror stories about cephalopods and Jay Frank tells us about the newest ways to monetize music.” I am in and […]

Designer Clownfish as feeder fish

Originally from Advanced Aquarist http://vimeo.com/89727849 This week, Chad Vossen of Vossen Aquatics and builder of the famed Vossen Larval Snagger, started feeding tiny clownfish, including Platinum clowns to his very young Dwarf Cuttlefish, Sepia bandensis. Cuttlefish hunting and feeding is always amazing to watch, but watching a cuttlefish hunt and eat a captive bred designer clownfish brings the experience […]

A demanding pet with 8 legs and personality

By  LINDA LOMBARDI, Associated Press, Updated: Tuesday, February 4, 11:08 AM When Nancy King got a pet octopus, she made a serious commitment: She wouldn’t spend a night away from her home in Dallas the entire time she had it.“I had decided it would be an experiment in whether I could have a relationship with an octopus,” she says. “I sat […]

Rare Kissing Octopus Unveiled For the First Time

From LiveScience.com • From Discovery.com • From HuffPost • From Fox News • From The Weather Channel • From Wikipedia • From NBC news Rare Kissing Octopus Unveiled For the First Time Tia Ghose, LiveScience Date: 06 March 2013 Time: 10:18 AM ET Unlike other octopus species, Larger Pacific Striped Octopuses mate in an intimate clinch with their beaks and suckers pressed against each other […]