[Biology & Species] Underwater robots reveal the cannibalistic all-you-can-eat-buffet of the deep sea - The Verge

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The Verge​

Underwater robots reveal the cannibalistic all-you-can-eat-buffet of the deep sea
The Verge
(The squid won.) Overall, the videos revealed just how ravenous gelatinous creatures like comb jellies and medusae are, playing a critical role in the ocean food web. “Food webs are the backbone of our understanding of all life in the ocean,” Choy ...


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Discover Magazine (blog)​

Dead Squid Moms Are a Gift to the Ocean Floor
Discover Magazine (blog)
Gonatids, like other squid, have short life spans. Male and female squid both die after they've reproduced. Some types of female squid start to physically disintegrate while they're still making their eggs, then float to the surface and are eaten by ...


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New York Times​

The Squid That Sink to the Ocean's Floor When They Die
New York Times
In a paper published recently in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Dr. Hoving and colleagues at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, where he was formerly a researcher, described happening upon the remains of 64 squid and squid egg cases ...


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Phys.Org​

A squid graveyard and a deep-sea buffet
Phys.Org
When squid carcasses and spent egg sheets fall to the seafloor, they provide nutrients and energy for animals that live thousands of meters below the surface. Many deep-sea animals eat marine snow—tiny particles of debris that sink from more ...


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IFLScience​

There's A Squid Graveyard Off The Californian Coast
IFLScience
Off the coast of California, the seabed is scattered with dead squids that perished after an exhausting sex orgy. It may seem strange, but it's a central part of this corner of the ocean's interconnected food webs. The sight was first seen in 2012 by ...


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Popular Science​

The critters of the deep sea may thrive on calamari
Popular Science
On one dive, it observed 36 carcasses and egg sheets. The squid all belonged to the Gonatidae family, whose members are plentiful in the Pacific Ocean. As in most species of squid and octopus, females enjoy but one breeding season before dying when ...


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Newsweek​

'Squid Graveyards' On Ocean Floor Could Become More Common
Newsweek
When a mother squid releases her eggs, her work is done. Starving and out of energy, she quietly falls to the sea floor, where her body becomes a feast for other animals. Scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, or MBARI, discovered ...


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