The Next Layer - deep-sea

Squid (3)

Lindsay — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:03:23 +0000

Squid and octopuses have eight legs and both belong to the molluscan group Cephalopoda, which literally means "head footed”.

Photographer unknown. Image taken from the article text 'Envisat fishes up facts behind Chilean giant squid invasion' March 2004, by the European Space Agency and is for my own research purposes only.

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Squid (2)

Lindsay — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:44:29 +0000

The large deepsea squid shown above triggered its own photograph on a special undersea camera used by Antartic Division scientists during their last expedition to Heard Island, and mimics the movements of the true Giant Squid which was photographed for the first time recently by Japanese scientists. Hobart-based Liz Turner, Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the Tasmanian Museum in Hobart, Rosny Collections and Research Facility, says “For the world to be able to see the photographs of a live Giant Squid is a huge leap in the quest for knowledge about these gargantuans of the oceans”.

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Squid (1)

Lindsay — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:29:16 +0000

Photograph by Brian J Skerry. Sourced from National Geographic for my own research purposes only.

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Alien Squid

Lindsay — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:55:43 +0000