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earthling

A dumpling squid (Euprymna tasmanica)

Also known as the southern bobtail squid, this #cephalopod inhabits shallow waters off the coast of southern Australia. It’s an ambush predator and uses mucus glands in its skin to coat itself in sand, where it then lies in wait for prey, like shrimp and small fish. Dumplings must learn to hunt fast: Because males of this species die shortly after mating and females die soon after laying eggs, newborn squid need to fend for themselves.
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These precocious hatchlings can snag prey twice their size! Photo: Rachel Price, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist
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Rosy

I have always loved bloopers. 🦑 I always felt so bad for the one you have to kill in Super Mario Sunshine! 😭

One thing I love about Paper Mario is how you can befriend goombas, koopas, etc and see their civilizations. I would like to see bloopers get this kind of love and respect in a game. Like an underwater blooper kingdom level. That would be cool.

#Blooper#Bloopers#SuperMarioSunshine
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Carson Hill 📎

Made good progress yesterday working through #DeathsDoor, an indie #ARPG that reminds me a lot of old-school #Zelda games. Great (also unforgiving) game so far, though some of the bosses are a bit of a challenge. You play as a crow, working your 9 to 5 to collect souls as an employed reaper. As one does.

There's a restaurant in the game with the *best* chef - "Jefferson." He cracks me up.

A video game screenshot. A pallid chef leans over the counter, his motions piloted by a squid clinging to his back. His dialogue reads: "Lots of (my customers) ask me, 'Hey J-man, my pal, what's with that sweet looking cephalopod on your back?'"
A video game screenshot. A pallid chef leans over the counter, his motions piloted by a squid clinging to his back. His dialogue reads: "It's a neat backpack which I fashioned for myself out of an old tarp! I used my opposable thumbs, which are things that I definitely have!"
A video game screenshot. A crow sits down to eat a delicious bowl of steaming tentacle. Omnomnom...
A video game screenshot. A pallid chef leans over the counter, his motions piloted by a squid clinging to his back. His dialogue reads: "I sure do love preparing food with my multi-digited mammal hands!"
#videogames#GamesAreArt#screenshots
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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

#ResearchVessel provides comprehensive assessment of the changing Central #Arctic Ocean phys.org/news/2024-10-vessel-c

"Luminescent #sardines from the genus Benthosema were omnipresent in the Central #ArcticOcean... These #fish, less than 10 centimeters long, and the #prawns and #squids we found, indicate that the ecosystem surrounding the #NorthPole is more biodiverse than previously assumed."

aerial photo of a large icebreaker in the arctic ocean
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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

Advanced underwater robots discover #DeepSea #squid that broods giant eggs
phys.org/news/2024-06-advanced

Giant eggs in a deep-sea squid esajournals.onlinelibrary.wile

"#MBARI researchers had previously observed deep-sea #squids brooding their eggs, but this sighting was striking because the eggs were twice as large as those of other brooding deep-sea squids... this individual likely represents an unknown species of the family of #Gonatidae and one that broods giant eggs."

Underwater photo of a squid
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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

#Squids' birthday influences mating phys.org/news/2024-04-squids-b

#Squid male alternative reproductive tactics are determined by birth date royalsocietypublishing.org/doi

"#SpearSquid that hatch earlier in the season become 'consorts' that fight for mating opportunities. Those that hatch later become 'sneakers,' which use more clandestine mating tactics... once a mating tactic had been determined by their birth date, they stuck with it."

drawing of 2 squids - elongated cephalopods - the larger is described as "consort" and the smaller as "sneaker"
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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

Discovered in the deep: tiny ‘sucker-bum #squid’ with martial arts moves theguardian.com/environment/20 by Helen Scales

Two new pygmy #squids, #Idiosepius kijimuna and #Kodama jujutsu from the #Ryukyu Islands, #Japan link.springer.com/article/10.1 by Amanda Reid et al., 2023

"The two species of #PygmySquid the size of a fingernail live on Japanese #CoralReefs. Spotting them is a sign of a healthy ecosystem"

Tiny squid attached to a blade of seagrass by a sticky patch on its back
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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

Two new pygmy #squids discovered among the #corals of #Japan phys.org/news/2023-10-pygmy-sq paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1

"The scientific names take inspiration from #JapaneseFolklore. Idiosepius #kijimuna is named after the short, red-haired forest #fairies that live in the #banyan trees of #Okinawa... The #Kodama genus is named after the round-headed spirits that live in ancient #trees, whose presence indicate a healthy forest."

Ryukyuan Pygmy Squid (Idiosepius kijimuna) attached to a blade of seagrass, photographed in the wild.
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