Nature: Mysterious jelly ‘blobs’ off Norway coast may be filled with tiny squid eggs and mucus

Bizarre, three-foot-wide blobs of jelly have been spotted off the Norwegian coast — and they contain tiny squid eggs in a bubble of mucus, a study has found. Researchers found that each of the blobs may contain as many as hundreds of thousands of the tiny eggs, each of which can develop into an embryonic … Read more

ANNA MIKHAILOVA: Rishi Sunak turns to his vampire squid pals again for help

ANNA MIKHAILOVA: Rishi Sunak turns to his vampire squid pals again for help By Anna Mikhailova Deputy Political Editor For The Mail On Sunday Published: 01:43 GMT, 10 January 2021 | Updated: 13:13 GMT, 10 January 2021 Rishi Sunak keeps the chumocracy chugging along with the appointment of yet another of his former Goldman Sachs … Read more

ANNA MIKHAILOVA: Rishi Sunak turns to his vampire squid pals again for help

ANNA MIKHAILOVA: Rishi Sunak turns to his vampire squid pals again for help By Anna Mikhailova Deputy Political Editor For The Mail On Sunday Published: 01:43 GMT, 10 January 2021 | Updated: 01:44 GMT, 10 January 2021 Rishi Sunak keeps the chumocracy chugging along with the appointment of yet another of his former Goldman Sachs … Read more

Fossilized paperclip-shaped shell from an ancient squid reveals it lived for 200 years

Ancient ‘paperclip’ squid that roamed the oceans 68 million years ago would live for centuries, strange stationary-shaped fossil reveals Remains of a 68 million-year-old squid reveals the creature lived 200 years Experts re-examined its paperclip-shaped shell to determine its age The shell had ridges from methane being released from the seafloor each year By Stacy … Read more

Beachgoers are stunned to find a 14-foot-long giant squid washed up on the shore in South Africa

Monster of the deep! Beachgoers are stunned to find a 14-foot-long giant squid washed up on the shore in South Africa The 14ft long giant squid weighing and 440lb was found dead and washed up on the shore in South Africa  These elusive marine species are rarely seen and weren’t photographed alive for the first … Read more

Marks covering a shark off Hawaii are signs of a fight between the predatory fish and a giant squid 

Golf ball-sized battle scars were found covering a shark in the waters off Hawaii, and they were likely inflected after a fight with a giant squid, scientists claim. Researchers from Florida International University studied pictures of the shark taken off Hawaii’s Kona coast after they were shared by photographer Deron Verbeck.  Until now fights between … Read more

Feisty squid and deep-sea fish dazzle potential predators with a bioluminescent flash of light

Squid and deep-sea fish dazzle potential predators with a bioluminescent flash of light that allows them to escape, research shows Elephant seals feast on lantern fish that live at great depths in the murky ocean Biologists set out to find out how the seals manage to hunt their prey in the dark They attached trackers … Read more