Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
Comment preview: All right. Okay, I was 13 and on a school trip to the Monterrey Bay Aquarium. Each kid in the class had been assigned a sea critter to study, and mine was the Cuttlefish. I realized while writing my report that in almost every photo of a cuttlefish where i ....
Comment preview: I'm a little late to the party, but I humbly submit the [cuttlefish](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuttlefish). The cuttlefish is pretty wild. It has a donut shaped brain and three hearts pumping blue blood. Its pupils are not the typical circle but instead ....
Comment preview: The color-changing masters of the cephalopods are actually cuttlefish, not octopus. Octopus do also have great changing abilities, but [most cuttlefish will put them to shame.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgDE2DOICuc) The truly interesting thing about ....
Comment preview: Several years ago, I was hanging out at the ~~Monterrey~~ Monterey Bay Aquarium in front of the cuttlefish tank. Just admiring their gentle rippling color changes and beautiful eyes while listening to passers-by talk about how strange and ugly they looked. ....
Comment preview: Thanks! I'm just thrilled to pieces that quite a few other people find cephalopod communication as compelling and interesting as I do. "I speak Cuttlefish" is always a nice thing to throw into those "two truths and a lie" games, but I haven't ever really t ....
Comment preview: Actually, yes I have. I spotted a Cuttlefish while my wife and I were on a buddy dive in the Barrier Reef of Australia, during our honeymoon there in 1996. As we swept the beautiful colourful reef, I spotted what looked a lot like a moving rock - it kind o ....
Comment preview: They really are about as smart as housecats. I was snorkeling off the coast of Cuba and noticed a trio of cuttlefish watching me collect clear plastic bags that were free floating in the water. I had to puncture the bags a bit to make them smaller; they we ....
Comment preview: So in Judaism you can't talk about lost arts without talking about tekhelet. It's a blue dye used in various ritual objects. Besides things in the Temple, it was used in the *tzitzit*, a sort of fringe that goes on a ritual garment, the *tallit* (I'm goi ....
Comment preview: Hi there. ::rubs ears:: And it's probably just as the blogger presents it, actually. Sea lions are very cat-like in a lot of ways. Ask any marine mammal trainer. They're like cats, except less standoffish, more playful, and a lot bigger. Sea lions also oft ....
Comment preview: Many translate perfectly - *pig* is actually just a malformed from of Old English *picg*, which meant *piglet*. English still has *swine* (direct cognate). *Guinea Pig* still follows the 'pig' motif. The ones that don't match (kinda): * Porcupine - from Mi ....
Comment preview: EA plants, all of them. They're on the enemy payroll. /tinfoil hat Seriously though, with the amount of people who've played the game, there's bound to be people who enjoy the ending. Personally, I could have overlooked the starkid thing and plot holes had ....
Comment preview: Well, you could do something boring as fuck, like buy some shit-arse quill made in a China by a peasant for 7 yuan a day. **OR.** You could be fucking awesome, and not only get your own quill, but get the ink you use for writing with at the same fucking ti ....
Comment preview: That would be my starting assumption, that large brains would be maladaptive in an aquatic environment. Look at the aquatic creatures which are considered to possess high intelligence, they tend to include dolphins and wales (some would place octopuses in ....
Comment preview: You said an "octopus is a squid." Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that. As someone who is a scientist who studies squids, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls octopuses squids. If you want to be "specific" like you said, ....
Comment preview: maybe I can relate my scuba stories here 1. all time favorite experience was in mexico last year. Was diving at ~30 feet in a flat area and saw a ity bity sea horse attached to a piece of coral. I swam down to it and pointed at it for my friend to see, ....
Comment preview: I stayed in Tioman Island too, on a bungalow right *over* the sea. The water was crystal clear and at night it was phosphorescent. We snorkelled and sunbathed for hours every day for nothing. I made friends with a vast Napoleon Wrasse over the reef, and we ....
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Comment preview: > First of all, how does the I-rex know how the heat sensors work? It doesn't. All it knows is that when it wants to hide, it matches its temperature to that of the surrounding environment - just a chameleon doesn't know that a nature documentarian has ....
Comment preview: We own property on a small island in the Cyclades, Greece. The snorkeling around the coast of the island is fantastic. I've seen porpoise, weird species of crab, cuttlefish etc. One time I was with my brother, around 1/4 of a mile around the coast of a sma ....
Comment preview: Now you've done it. You've asked the question, and we're compelled to answer. The simple truth of the matter is that there *are* no baby pigeons. Sure, you'll occasionally meet someone who claims to have raised pigeons or otherwise come into contact with t ....
Comment preview: The movie opens with the young whale being discovered by a pod of dolphins. They're cruel and insensitive, and they mock the whale for being fat and unattractive. One of them, though - voiced by Whoopi Goldberg - admonishes the other dolphins, and comforts ....
Comment preview: Given that the standard Reaper capital ship is called a Sovereign-class, I'm inclined to believe that Sovereign himself was a pretty standard Reaper. Harbinger seems to be the only capital class Reaper that differs from the rest, being bigger, stronger, an ....
Comment preview: I had seen these pictures before and they just don't jive. Everything looks weird, especially the meat just laying there. So, I had the opportunity to spend a few weeks in China a few years ago, and I HAD to go to Walmart. What was astounding was how AMA ....
Comment preview: The full capabilities of the species we call Leviathans are unknown. We've seen them knock a Sovereign-class Reaper out of the sky and communicate at superluminal velocities, which implies a highly advanced level of technology. Plus, of course, they built ....
Comment preview: The Pufferfish (Tetraodontidae) is known for their venom and if served improperly, the tetrodotoxin found in fugu chiri (pufferfish soup) can be poisonous to humans. The pufferfish is the fourth most poisonous animal on earth, trailing behind the [blue rin ....
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