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    What is these creatures? Squid and Octopus are categories in sub-marine animal. Squid and Octopus are still one family, both of these animals are The Cephalopoda family. What is Cephalopoda? “Cephalopods, is the class of mollusks which scientists classify octopuses, squid, cuttlefish and nautiluses, can change color faster than a chameleon. They can also change texture and body shape, and, and if those camouflage techniques don't work, they can still "disappear" in a cloud of ink, which they use

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    That’s not hyperbole. I really mean it. How else could I react when I open up the latest issue of Bioessays, and see this: Cephalopod origin and evolution: A congruent picture emerging from fossils, development and molecules. Just from the title alone, I’m immediately launched into my happy place: sitting on a rocky beach on the Pacific Northwest coast, enjoying the sea breeze while the my wife serves me a big platter of bacon, and the cannula in my hypothalamus slowly drips a potent cocktail of

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    Octopus Research Paper

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    An alien with eight great appendages, the octopus, is a carnivore that lives for about one year to two years. It creates ghosts with its ink and can taste with its skin. It has numerous suckers that vary from an octopus to another based on their size. These suckers are like tongues because they contain chemoreceptors that allow them to taste their surroundings as they move across the sea floor. Sever any of its limbs and it will keep moving like a snake. It can completely change its form for three-tenths

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    environments is called ecology, and in the ecology of the open ocean, Humboldt squid stand front and center. They are hunted and consumed throughout their lives by a wide variety of predators. The squid themselves are also voracious generalist predators, meaning that they eat a wide variety of prey, and lots of it. And, like all animals, Humboldt squid play the ecological role of host to numerous parasites. A single female Humboldt squid can lay millions of eggs, of which only a few will survive to adulthood

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    Movie Review: The Sea Inside The Sea Inside is a powerful movie through the eyes of a quadriplegic man named Ramón Sampedro, who is a bedridden quadriplegic who petitioned to the federal court requesting that he be allowed to end his own life and die with dignity. Ramón spent twenty-eight years fighting the courts to grant him permission to die with dignity. Ramón became a quadriplegic after diving off a seaside cliff. Just as he dove into the ocean the tide changed, causing the water to become

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    Sai’s emotions are naive because she is not the first woman in history to grow up at an intersection of opposing cultural forces. Just as a giant squid is not predisposed to meet other creatures of his kind, Sai’s sheltered upbringing prevents her from meeting people with similar experiences. Sai’s exploration of her appearance allows her to gain the crucial tool of agency to help her gain maturity

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    Though these are just details these are some things that i noticed that were left in the novel and not brought into the movie. In the novel the ship was attacked multiple times by a squid were in the movie they only showed one attack. They also removed some fun from the novel too because the reader was allowed to figure the code out but in the movie Harry solved the code all by himself. Even the characters main story points were changed

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    (BEGINNING WILL HAVE DARPA AND THE GIANT SQUID, INVISIBILITY, AND MAGNETISM, AND WHAT THE SQUID AND ITS OFFSPRING HAD TO EAT WAS MAGNETIC, ALUMINUM, TIN, METAL, OF THAT SORT.) Giselle could not recall ever seeing anything change so fast, not even in a film as the land and pilings zoomed into a tiny circle as she shot

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    Biology of a Squid Essay

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    Biology of a Squid Squids are among the most varied and unique of all invertebrates. They are mollusks of the Class Cephalopod, along with the nautilus, cuttlefish, and octopus. Squids are highly evolved, and have developed a number of traits uncommon to most other mollusks. Fossil records of cephalopods have dated back the Cambrian Period (about 600 million years ago). Structurally, squids have only small variations of a basic theme common to all cephalopods. They are spherical or cigar-shaped

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    Architeuthis

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    to explore 7,200 feet below the ocean surface, what they are finding will amaze you. Lives 500 to 1,000 meters below ocean surface, prefers continental shelves and island slopes. That creature name is Architeuthis dux, also called the giant Squid, which has the largest eyes of any animal on earth with a diameter of about 30 centimeters, great light absorbing capacity, helped them to see better, and able to capture prey easily in the dark sea. Their funnel that located beneath the body, or mantle

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