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TONMO Edit: this news was first reported on TONMO by @jeffday, here. @octobot has assembled the news coverage over the past day in this thread. -- A rare deep-sea squid has been captured on video at a depth of more than a kilometre underwater, by scientists from The University of Western. Continue reading...

His prodigious paintings of whales and his books about sharks, giant squid and tuna were acclaimed for melding science with art. Continue reading...

RIP to Richard Ellis, author of Monsters of the Sea, a book which greatly helped inspire me to create TONMO, which happens to be celebrating its 24th anniversary tomorrow, May 30th. Ellis also authored The Search for the Giant Squid, Sea Dragons, and created accompanying artwork for each. He was 86. https://nytimes.com/2024/05/29/science/richard-ellis-dead.html Here is an interview I conducted with him back in 2002: Richard Ellis Interview (2002) And finally, here is the biography he...

Happy 24th Anniversary to TONMO.com, the cephalopod site I created on May 30, 2000 to serve as THE Internet's destination for anything and everything pertaining to cephalopods (octopus, squid, cuttlefish, nautilus, fossils). I sincerely thank all members, staff, contributors and supporters over the decades. This incredible site (ok, yes, of course, inkcredible; check out: Groaners, the forum that will NEVER DIE for a lot more of that) wouldn't exist without you and your tentacled embrace...

Octopus Biology and Ecology - https://amzn.to/4bUEMws 1st Edition - May 31, 2024 Editors: Rui Rosa, Ian Gleadall, Graham Pierce, Roger Villanueva Language: English Paperback

The deep sea is the largest living space on Earth, but many of the animals and habitats far beneath the ocean's surface remain shrouded in mystery ... Continue reading...

SciFri's CephalopodWeek kicks off today, and if you're new to it, congrats! You're in for a ton of great cephalopod content all week long. I'll try to add some cool stuff spotted to this thread throughout the week (let's see how I do); you please do the same :meso: https://x.com/hashtag/CephalopodWeek?src=hashtag_click

Ammonites are an extinct group of marine mollusks that belonged to the class Cephalopoda, which also includes modern-day squid, octopus, and ... Continue reading...

Hi guys i havent posted in a while , last time i posted i shared an amazing experience i had with group mating squid . my latest experience which happened today was at a local dive site with some octopus . this site is in about 15/16m depth with a fine sandy ,silty bottom , i was exploring this awesome muck diving location when i started coming upon groups of Juvenile Port Jackson Sharks , then i came upon an area at least 3meters across that was thick with empty scallop shells...

From NPR: The minds of octopuses may offer a glimpse at alien intelligence, researchers say Terrific frame by the researcher: How smart they (octopuses) are is less important than how they are smart.

Jean Baptiste Vérany’s Chromolithographs of Cephalopods (1851) There was a post today that had these wonderful images from the mid 19th century and in color... well worth the look... A few observations... Victor Hugo’s 1866 novel Les Travailleurs de la mer featured an ink drawing by Hugo that was copied from Vérany’s Octopus macropus. (While Vérany debunked the myths of the octopus’ monstrous nature, calling it “incapable of harm”, Hugo’s ferocious beast fueled the modern terror of...

https://openrepository.aut.ac.nz/items/0eb9f5c7-e06d-4513-80d3-18b87774a08d Six new glass squid species, including this one, as described by our own @GPO87!

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:cthulhu: -- we've been around a while! TONMO, the Internet's oldest and greatest cephalopod community, is 23 years old today. A big THANK YOU to all contributors through the years! Although our delay continues, a future TONMOCON (#8!) is not off the table; perhaps '25? For the initiated, MBL seems to have a nice cephalopod neuroscience event slated for April 2024. 👀 THANKS for being a part of this slice of the web; more to come, as ever. :octorun:

Schmidt Ocean is on an expedition off the pacific coast of Costa Rica. They have found at least a couple of new nurseries of muusoctopus down there, or perhaps it's even a new species. TONS of brooding octos, about 3000 meters down. They're roughly 2/3rd of the way through it, probably another week or so to go. Catch it if you can!

https://www.sciencefriday.com/spotlights/cephalopod-week/ Check the #CephalopodWeek hashtag on Twitter. Example:

Heyooooo TONMO, it's been a while (kids/COVID/teaching... life) but ALCES / AUT Squid Squad are still here, and we're heading to Wellington NZ next week for Squidmas! It's our annual(ish) event where we visit NIWA and Te Papa to help them process cephalopod specimens that have accumulated in their freezer from research voyages and scientific observers on commercial vessels. We'll also be taking samples for various deep-sea ceph research PhD projects such as retinal anatomy (Ryan), squid...