Thanks to my awesome brother, I have now acquired and read the full text of the paper I blogged about yesterday: "Purification and in vitro antioxidative effects of giant squid muscle peptides on…

UPDATE: I've learned more about how antioxidants work since writing this post. Maybe this is a sign that I've become cynical, but when I first read that peptides found in squid skin can slow aging,…

Is the Age of Exploration long dead? At The Last Word on Nothing, Richard Panek made the point that there's no longer anywhere on Earth people haven't been. Even the South Pole, which many would…

The Telegraph's first picture of the day is a terrifying action shot of a huge dolphin's toothy maw, about to chomp down on a sweet little red squid. Go look at it! Right now! But it's not my fault…

If you want to know basic things about animals, like who eats whom, you might guess that your days would consist of watching real-life nature documentaries. You might expect to go out into the…

Ever since the publication of The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms with Observations of Their Habits by Charles Darwin, the European Earthworm Lumbricus terrestris has had a…

Baby squid are the cutest, right? I mean, right?  In 2010 I was lucky enough to join a baby squid workshop in La Paz, Mexico, where I met Spanish scientist Roger Villanueva. He has quite…

To no one's surprise, environmentalists and industry lobbyists are butting heads in a major legal wrangle over California's "wetfish"--sardines, anchovies, mackerel, and market squid. As you may…

Bloomberg calls it "South Pacific's Cruelest Catch": Yusril says the officers hit him in the face with fish and the boatswain repeatedly kicked him in the back for using gloves when he was sewing the…

If you haven't heard the kerfuffle about flying squid by now, you've been under a rock. A cephalopod-free rock.  Jessica Marshall wrote a story for Nature which also ran in Scientific American.…