Cephalopod Tea Party is having a cephalopod pin give-away. To be entered in the drawing you must write a cephalopod-themed haiku! Although I probably have more than enough cephalopod tchotchkes, I…

Then you really should consider attending Euroceph, a new meeting this year with the tagline:Cephalopod Biology Research in the 21st Century - A European Perspective. We would like to remind all of…

I know, I know, I won't shut up about squid fishing. But the Salinas Californian has a neat human-interest article about the closure of the market squid fishery, bringing the message home to Homo…

So I guess squid are doing really well this year. It's estimated that around-the-world squid in mass outweighs the human population. . . . Along the coast of California, the squid season has been…

Very cool new research on feeding in ancient ammonites! (Thanks to R. Olley for the link.) Ammonites, though not the direct ancestors of modern-day cephalopods, are their ancient cousins--and they…

If you're not from a part of the U.S.A. that read the "Li'l Abner" comics by Al Capp, you may not know Sadie Hawkins Day - but butterflies do.   Sadie Hawkins, as comic strip aficionados know,…

It's not a cartoon, an ancient flightless bird was actually able to use its wings like a flail - or nunchaku, if your perspective is more Asian. Paleontologists have discovered that Xenicibis, a…

One of the more commonly known facts about squid is that they squirt ink. When I ask kids, "Why do you think they do that?" the answer is usually "to escape predators" or something similar. This…

Strange but true! Oil supertankers cool themselves by pumping water from the ocean through their overheated innards, but as it turns out, there's more than just water in the ocean. Market squid have…

Aravalli hills are around 600 km long and cover very rich diversity due to their peculiar location . However unlike temperate hills this hill range passes through hostile climate of Rajasthan and…