Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
This little guy looks like something out of SpongeBob SquarePants.
Scientists found the squid and other species while mapping more than 1,500 square miles (3,900 square kilometers) of an undersea mountain range in the North Atlantic. Until now the region had scarcely been explored because of its remoteness and depth. But the new survey shows that the ridge is teeming with life, said Monty Priede, expedition leader and director of the University of Aberdeen's Oceanlab research center.
"The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is roughly equivalent in size to the European Alps and is one of the largest areas of habitat available in the ocean," Priede said. [...] Another exciting find was a "spiral poo worm," an animal first identified in 2005 that deposits spiral-shaped feces, some of which have been found in the fossil record dating back hundreds of millions of years.
Also, moray eels have an extendable second set of jaws in their throats, like the creature in Alien.
There's no way that doesn't have a Mattel logo on it somewhere.
Posted by: Ubu Imperator at September 6, 2007 05:24 PMThat should really be an album cover. (And "Glass Squid" == good name for a record company. Oh wait, I'm thinking of Robyn Hitchcock's sometimes label Glass Fish Records. But damn, it would be a good name for something. Maybe a blog post.)
Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist at September 6, 2007 11:43 PM(Where did you find that photo? I'm reading at the the article and seeing a bunch of cool pictures but no mention of glass squid. Surprised you did not mention the spiral poo worm.)
Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist at September 7, 2007 08:07 AMThe photo (and most of the text) is the third one in the slideshow. And, um, I'm n ot accusing you of not reading closely or anything, but the spiral poo worm is the only text that I did take from the main article.
Posted by: apostropher at September 7, 2007 08:12 AMI was doing a project about glass squid. I had checked lots of websites. You know what? I found out that some of the websites had the same articles as yours!! Strange, huh??
Posted by: No name at December 8, 2007 04:47 AMThe giant Pacific octopus was given the toy for Christmas and has even learned to dig out food hidden in a secret box at the back of it.
But has it learned to change Mr. PH's outfits?
Anyway, this makes me realize there's a burgeoning LOLoctupuss phenomenon just waiting to be born: "I haz a potato head. Nooooo they be stealin' my potato head!"
Posted by: M/tch M/lls at January 11, 2008 04:43 PMthis fish is frikin' ugly. ha ha i can see you. rawr. you are ugly like this fish. :( i know what you are doing. ha ha
Posted by: brittani at June 9, 2009 11:19 AM