Earth Is An Alien Planet
Compilation of brief videos of an eerie and presently unclassified type of deep-sea squid.
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posted by Paul McAuley at 1:40 PM
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- Name: Paul McAuley
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I worked as a research biologist in various universities, including Oxford and UCLA, and for six years was a lecturer in botany at St Andrews University before becoming a full-time writer. My latest novel is In The Mouth of The Whale, published in paperback in October 2012. Some of my fiction and nonfiction is archived on my web site
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3 Comments:
Wow, they're fantastic. I bet the huge crown of arms is there to catch that 'snow' drifting about in the movies. Pity there's no footage of them clearly feeding.
Here is an article on the magnapinna squids.
Thanks Pete. I think the article is the reason for the sudden flurry of interest - the intertubes are still mostly led by deadwood publishing.
That these big beasts were first discovered just ten years is a sobering thought.
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