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The analysis of the largest colossal squid ever caught (and largest invertebrate ever captured) has provided some first spectacular results - this is also the largest invertebrate species known to have ever existed. In February 2007, a New Zealand fishing crew off the coast of Antarctica (in the northern Ross Sea), t... |
5 May 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Squids and their relatives, cuttlefish and octopuses, have the most complex eyes in the invertebrate world, closely resembling in structure the eyes of vertebrates. On top of that, the eyes of these animals are relatively large compared to their size. These things considered, it's no wonder that the examination ... |
5 May 2008
02:47 GMT |
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This is one of the most sounding victories of cryptozoology. For long, the giant squids were thought to be just legendary creatures, the kraken of the northern sagas. Later on, the individuals washed ashore helped change this view. In recent years, fishermen even began to capture individuals. The one caught in Februa... |
30 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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A squid is like a mass of gelatinous tissues. Still, its razor-sharp parrot-like beak is one of the toughest natural materials. The beak of a jumbo squid can sever the nerve cord of a large fish, paralyzing it, and they can do this to divers as well. But each time they bite, powerful forces exert pressure on the soft... |
28 March 2008
04:37 GMT |
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The general concept says that birds are almost devoid of olfaction. Anyway, our weak noses would make them shame. But recent researches have showed it's not like that. New World vultures and condors have a smell that would compete with that of the dogs. Experiments made on newly-hatched chickens showed that the ... |
17 March 2008
05:56 GMT |
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1. There are 80,000 species of living mollusks, classified in Gastropoda (snails and slugs), Bivalvia (clams, oysters and scallops), Cepahlopoda (squids, cuttlefish and octopuses), Scaphopoda, Polyplacophora (chitons), Aplacophora, Monoplacophora, Caudofoveata. Because most mollusks have hard shells, many were fossil... |
25 January 2008
17:31 GMT |
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Baby you can fly my car, but how about diving with it? That's what you can say after seeing this. Rinspeed has a reputation of developing vehicles that can sink like stones and still be fully functional. Now, the company has come up with the world's first real diving car. And don't worry about killing ... |
19 December 2007
13:21 GMT |
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Squid pen, remaining of the once well developed shell like the one of a snail, is usually a waste product of the squids, which most food processors discard. But a wound-healing gel based on squid pen and developed by a team at the Otago University was brought into the attention of international pharmaceutical compan... |
30 November 2007
05:28 GMT |
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Global warming and overfishing come with unpleasant surprises. Packs of aggressive and large squids have invaded waters off California's central coast, destroying local fish populations. Humboldt or jumbo squid (Dosidicus gigas) is an aggressive carnivore up to six feet (2 m) long and 100 pounds (45 kg) nickname... |
24 July 2007
04:10 GMT |
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Scientists had a rare occasion to study one of the most impressive marine animals, which gave birth to so many legends among sailors throughout history, a large giant squid that washed up to shore on a remote Australian beach, reported Reuters.It was really a fine specimen, but unfortunately the tentacles had been b... |
11 July 2007
05:02 GMT |
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Squids have excellent eyesight, a keen sense of smell, and the ability to squirt jets of dark ink that mask their escape. But these skills provide little protection against toothed whales, like the sperm whale, which hunt them ruthlessly and easily. "The numbers of squid that are eaten by sperm whales far exceed thos... |
28 June 2007
17:31 GMT |
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Penguins have turned into a symbol of the fight to protect the pristine Antarctica against contamination and overexploitation. But their abilities and ecology have made them a good tool for the scientific research of the effects of the global warming.They can dive hundreds of meters into the dark, icy waters of the S... |
19 April 2007
10:25 GMT |
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A proxy server can allow computers to make indirect connections to other network services through the machine running the proxy. The most stable and commonly available proxy server for Linux is Squid: a proxy caching server for HTTP/FTP requests. Squid caches data from the Internet on your local network so the next t... |
19 April 2007
06:23 GMT |
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The epic fights between sperm whales and giant squids witnessed by sailors fired the imagination of many biologists and nature lovers, with their mysterious cover. And this especially because sperm whales are the largest predator in the world, 18 m (59 ft) long and 50 tons weight, with a huge appetite for squids, y... |
12 March 2007
11:05 GMT |
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