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From an article titled “Global Warming’s Silver Lining” on Wired News comes the exciting proposition that global warming may result in larger and more abundant squid.

A final potential upside to global warming is that with every degree Celsius warmer our planet gets, we could have up to 20 percent more calamari. Phillip Lee, director of […]

You’ve got to love the cephalophiles at tonmo.com and their unflappable enthusiasm for dredging up great squid facts and photos.
Check this out:
SQUID BODY FROM WHALE STOMACH (AZORES)

Giant squid, Arciteuthis sp. 34 feet (10.4m) taken from the stomach of a 46 foot (14m) sperm whale. The squid presents far less difficulty in being swallowed than the […]

Squidblog recently went to see “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou“. Having seen some previews for the film, with some kooky sea creature animations, we hoped for some sort of squid action in the film. Unfortunately there was none (although there was a cool looking octopus), though there was this excellent poster from one of […]

From NBC4.tv News March 15:
DANA POINT, Calif. — Biologists are continuing to question why jumbo squid are washing ashore on Orange County beaches. At least 10 of the South American natives have been stranded in South Orange County since Saturday. The squid first appeared off the Southern California coast in January. Scientists at the Ocean […]

There’s great pictures and information on a Japanese site that has “Illustrations of 200 Species of Cuttlefish and Squids with Description and Distribution Map”. If you can’t read Japanese then use the English Species index.

Operation Deep Scope has discovered a new species of large squid in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Using a bioluminescent electronic “jellyfish” as bait the expedition captured some incredible video using their “one-of-a-kind” Eye-in-the-Sea technology.
From wftv news Florida:
The identity of the mystery squid, bigger than calamari but smaller than the fabled giant squid, remains a […]

A fish that appears like a bishop.
Might be: “a giant squid. Squids have heads shaped like a bishop, and it is not uncommon for them to be the size of a man.”

RelentlesslyOptimistic has certainly made a tasty meal out of yesterday’s post on squid sex . See: Cephaloblogging, sloppy squid sneaker sex, and Penis Blogging Week

I really had no idea it was penis blogging week!

We recently learnt that there is another squidblog, and it is damn impressive. All cephalophiles should definitely head down to http://www.squidblog.com/
It is great to welcome another denizen to the growing family of Cephaloblogs
We must also thank squidblog.com for pointing us to this t-shirt, as well as the formidable cephal-ipod

Just following on from the previous post (below):
The Tentacle Sex entry from pharyngula.org mentions two papers which are described as a Kama Sutra of squid intercourse:
Jantzen TM and Havenhand JN (2003a) “Reproductive behavior in the squid Septoteuthis australis from South Australia: Ethogram of reproductive body patterns.” Biol. Bull 204:290-304.
Jantzen TM and Havenhand JN (2003b) […]