Squid Egg Masses Are 100% Awesome
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 22:40
in Biology & Nature
Well! The last day of the squid fertilization workshop was just as exciting, in its own way, as Sunday's fishing excusion. The workshop's dozen participants hail from Mexico, Peru, Brazil, USA, Germany, Russia, and Spain. But our passion for cephalopod reproduction is as pure as our backgrounds are diverse. That's right, we are all obsessed with squid sex. So obsessed that we will make ourselves late for lunch with concerns about the chemistry of egg masses, and debate ommastrephid paralarval nutrition well into the night. Yesterday morning we showed each other videos of egg masses and baby squid. We cooed over Susana's paralarvae and applauded Sakurai's shockingly spherical egg masses. read more
