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  Squid
Vampire Squid, however, is more closely related to the octopuses than to any of the squids.
Squid are the most skilled of the coleoids at this form of motion.
giant squid is reportedly up to 20 m in length, which made it the largest invertebrate in the world, and it has the largest eyes of all.
www.edinformatics.com /culinaryarts/food_encyclopedia/squid.htm   (379 words)

  
  Squid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Like all cephalopods, squids are distinguished by having a distinct head, bilateral symmetry, a mantle, and tentacles with suckers; squid, like cuttlefish, have eight arms and two tentacles arranged in pairs.
The mouth of the squid is equipped with a sharp horny beak made of chitin, used to kill and tear prey into manageable pieces.
The squid now resides in a glass tank, filled to the brim with preservative solution, and is one of 22 million specimens that can be seen as part of the behind-the-scenes Darwin Centre tour of the Natural History Museum in London.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Squid   (825 words)

  
 Squid - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Squids are the large, diverse group of marine mollusks, popular as food in cuisines as widely separated as the Korean and the Italian.
Like all cephalopods, squids are distinguished by having a distinct head, bilateral symmetry and tentacles with suckers; squid, like cuttlefish, have eight arms and two tentacles arranged in pairs.
The majority of squid are no more than 60 cm in length, but the giant squid is reportedly up to 20 m in length, which made it the largest invertebrate in the world, and it has the largest eyes of all.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Squid   (625 words)

  
 Squid - Suggest to a friend of WIKI
Captured whales often have squid beaks in their stomachs, the beak being the only indigestible part of the squid.
The majority of squid are no more than 60 cm in length, but the giant squid is reportedly up to 20 m in length, which made it the largest invertebrate in the world, and it has the largest eyes of all.
A giant squid was observed for the first time on September 30, 2005, by two Japanese scientists: Tsunemi Kubodera of the National Science Museum (of Japan) and Kyoichi Mori of the Ogasawara Whale Watching Association.
www.superso.com /wp/s/Squid.htm   (561 words)

  
 Squid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The squid is a marine mollusc of the class Cephalopoda, subclass Coleoidea, orderTeuthida, of which there are two major suborders, Myopsina and Oegopsina (the latter includesArchiteuthis dux, the giant squid).
The majority of squid are no more than 60 cm in length, but the giantsquid is reportedly up to 20m in length, which made it the largest invertebrate in the world, and it has the largest eyes ofall.
Squid is a popular food in many parts of the world, and finds its way into cuisines as widely separated as the Japanese and the Italian.
www.therfcc.org /squid-14906.html   (357 words)

  
 Squid - InformationBlast
The squid is a marine mollusc of the class Cephalopoda, subclass Coleoidea, order Teuthida, of which there are two major suborders, Myopsina and Oegopsina (the latter includes Architeuthis dux, the giant squid).
The mouth of the squid is beak-like and made of chitin, and contains the radula (the rough tongue common to all molluscs).
The majority of squid are no more than 60 cm in length, but the giant squid is reportedly up to 20m in length, which made it the largest invertebrate in the world, and it has the largest eyes of all.
www.informationblast.com /Squid.html   (360 words)

  
 glacial period - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about glacial period   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Coniston Water, in the English Lake District, is a ribbon lake in a glacial trough.
Any period of extensive glaciation (in which icesheets and icecaps expand over the Earth) occurring in the Earth's history, but particularly that in the Pleistocene epoch (last 2 million years), immediately preceding historic times.
On the North American continent, glaciers reached as far south as the Great Lakes, and an icesheet spread over northern Europe, leaving its remains as far south as Switzerland.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /glacial+period   (300 words)

  
 Glacial moraine - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Glacial moraine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
A glacier picks up large boulders and rock debris from the valley and deposits them at the snout of the glacier when the ice melts.
Rocky debris or till carried along and deposited by a glacier.
Material eroded from the side of a glaciated valley and carried along the glacier's edge is called a lateral moraine; that worn from the valley floor and carried along the base of the glacier is called a ground moraine.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Glacial+moraine   (245 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Squid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Squid can swim faster than any other invertebrate by rapidly expelling water from the mantle cavity through the funnel, which can be turned in order to direct movement.
In the male squid, one smaller arm is modified for the purpose of planting a packet of sperm (a spermatophore) in the female’s oviduct.
The common squid of eastern North Atlantic coasts is 30 to 45 cm (12 to 18 in) long, and the giant squid, at least 18 m (60 ft) long, used to be considered the largest aquatic invertebrate.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Squid   (3613 words)

  
 ScienceDaily: Squid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Squids are the large, diverse group of marine cephalopods popular as food in cuisines as widely separated as Korean and Italian.
A giant squid was observed for the first time on September 30, 2005, by two Japanese scientists: Tsunemi Kubodera of the National Science Museum (of Japan) and Kyoichi Mori of the Ogasawara Whale Watching Association.
Squid -- Squids are the large, diverse group of marine cephalopods popular as food in cuisines as widely separated as Korean and Italian.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/squid   (1965 words)

  
 Squid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Like all cephalopods squids are distinguished by a distinct head bilateral symmetry and tentacles with suckers; squid like cuttlefish have eight arms and two tentacles in pairs.
The majority of squid are no more 60 cm in length but the giant squid is reportedly up to 20m in which made it the largest invertebrate in world and it has the largest eyes all.
Squid is a popular food in many of the world and finds its way cuisines as widely separated as the Japanese and the Italian.
www.freeglossary.com /Squid   (784 words)

  
 Psychroteuthis glacialis
Studies in the Weddell Sea found that "this is the most abundant muscular squid in the Weddell Sea and the only pelagic cephalopod which occurs in considerable numbers in the Antarctic Sea Ice Zone" (Piatkowski and Steimer, in manuscript).
Little is known about the ecology of this squid in spite of its importance in the Antarctic ecosystem.
Beak length analysis of the Southern Ocean squid Psychroteuthis glacialis (Cephalopoda: Psychroteuthidae) and its use for size and biomass estimation.
tolweb.org /Psychroteuthis_glacialis/19783   (678 words)

  
 Niagara Falls Origins - a Geological History
During the period of glaciations and shortly afterwards, the climate in Niagara was arctic.
The retreating glacier was the cause of the reduction in size of this much wider and much deeper glacial river known as the St. David's River into what is now a smaller and shallower river known as the Niagara River.
The gentler southern slope is the lake ward slope of this glacial delta.
www.iaw.com /~falls/origins.html   (7391 words)

  
 squid
Oegopsina {{Taxobox_end}} Squids are the large, diverse group of marine mollusks, popular as food in cuisines as widely separated as the Japanese and the Italian.
Two other orders of decapodiform cephaopods are also called squid, although they are taxonomically disctinct from Teuthida and differ recognizably in their gross anatomical features.
The Vampire Squid, however, is more closely related to the octopuses than to any other squid.
en.mcfly.org /squid   (442 words)

  
 Definition of giant squid
The base [[electrode]] of the SQUID is made of a very thin niobium layer, formed by d...
The squid are a reddish orange colour with a large complime...
The squid is found in [[Antarctic]] waters, and reaches a l...
www.wordiq.com /search/giant+squid.html   (594 words)

  
 Squid
Squid are finding their way in to the kitchen these days, not just as part of calamari recipes, but...
Like all cephalopods, squids are distinguished by having a distinct head, bilateral symmetry, a mantle, and tentacles with suckers; squid...
Squid is a popular free software proxy server and web caching daemon, released under the GNU General Public License.
www.logicjungle.com /wiki/Squid   (252 words)

  
 ABANDONED PENGUIN COLONIES AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Radiocarbon dates on squid beaks were similar to those on penguin bones from the same stratigraphic level at Biscoe Point Site 5 and the modern colony at Torgerson Island indicating correspondence in age of penguin bones and prey remains in the colony sediments.
The high abundance of squid beaks in the sediments of the modern Adelie penguin colonies also is of interest as squid are rarely encountered in stomach samples from living Adelie penguins (Williams 1995).
These results suggest that the penguins must be taking squid early or late in the season, while they are still occupying their breeding sites, but feed primarily on krill (and some fish) during the chick-rearing season as shown by the stomach samples.
people.uncw.edu /emslies/penguins   (2841 words)

  
 Contrasting Life History Strategies
The fourth left arm of each mature male is specialized with hundreds of tiny suckers; this arm, called a 'hectocotylus' (from the Latin, meaning "I don't know where to start counting, either!") is used to transfer a spermatophore (sperm packet containing tens of thousands of gametes) into the mantle cavity of the female.
During mating and copulation, the squids are quite unresponsive to danger, and predators - particularly commercial fishermen and Blue Sharks - congregate to take advantage of this impassioned calamari.
When the squid young reach a mantle length of about 8 cm, they begin to school with older individuals and feed on fishes, crustaceans, and smaller squids.
www.elasmo-research.org /education/topics/lh_r_vs_k.htm   (2636 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Squid Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Squid Juvenile cephalopod from plankton Antarctica Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Cepha...
The squid is a marine mollusc of the class Cephalopoda, subclass Coleoidea, order Teuthida, of which there are two major suborders, Myopsina and Oegopsina (including the giant squids like Architeuthis dux).
There is also one squid species grouped within the octopodiform ("eight legged") superclass: the Vampire Squid.
www.ipedia.com /squid.html   (470 words)

  
 Geology of the Yosemite area   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Also starting about 30 million years was a series of glaciations that further modified the area by mass wasting through ice-wedging glacial plucking scouring/abrasion the release of pressure after the retreat each glaciation.
Severe glaciations formed very large glaciers that tended to strip and transport soil and talus piles far down glacial while less severe glaciations deposited a great of glacial till further up in the valleys.
Some domes in the park were covered glaciers and were modified into roche moutonnées are characterized by having a smooth rounded and a steep face.
www.freeglossary.com /Geology_of_the_Yosemite_area   (1166 words)

  
 Squid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Oegopsina Squids are the large, diverse group of marine mollusks, popular as food in cuisines as widely separated as the Japanese and the Italian.
The Squid and the Whale (15) - The North West Enquirer
The Squid and the Whale (15)The North West Enquirer, UK - Sep 7, 2006TO an outsider, the teenage Brenkman kids Walt (Eisenberg) and Frank (Kline) are talented and smart, if ever so slightly insufferable.
www.33beat.com /Squid.html   (678 words)

  
 More Hill Annex Mine
The unconformity between the glacial till and the iron formation is still visible.
Glacial Drift: Sand, gravel, boulders and clay were left behind by glaciers.
There were many different kinds of ammonites, they were related to the nautilus, squid and octopus.
www.angelfire.com /mn2/MrD/page5a.html   (845 words)

  
 MercoPress - Falklands-Malvinas & South Atlantic News
Barrick's plan involves moving a portion of ice from glaciers Toro I, Toro II and Esperanza, which represents less than 1% of the total glacial ice that feeds the same water basin and supposedly would not impact water supplies.
The idea is to remove the ice with hydraulic shovels and transport it by truck two kilometres south to the Guanaco glacier, which supplies the same water basin, where the ice will attach itself as it freezes.
A glacial viability plan was presented on April 20 to the Chilean Congress and a more detailed glacial operational management plan will be filed within a month, “an estimated six months earlier than required”.
www.falkland-malvinas.com /Detalle.asp?NUM=5531   (838 words)

  
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Cooling temperatures, and sometimes major glaciation events, are associated with most of the episodes of mass extinction.
Cooling hypothesis: The species that went extinct were those adapted to warm water or to a narrow temperature range, and they could not escape the cooling pulse associated with glacial expansion.
Ammonoids: Swimming cephalopod molluscs (like squid with shells; a modern type is the nautilus) carrying a chambered spiral shell.
www.nau.edu /~biology/gloss4.html   (1245 words)

  
 Squid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Squid jigs, squid hooks, sabiki jigs, underwater fishing lights and spinning reels.
Squid stuffed with ricotta cheese, garlic, currants, and pine nuts and baked in a wine and tomato sauce.
The existence of the giant squid, genus Architeuthis, is well accepted by science though few have ever been seen.
www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Teuthida   (1431 words)

  
 Noisemakers Chapter 2 Review
An initial suggestion raised on its forum by a few musicians to gather together and compile an album of their tracks became a reality: Two years on, the Noisemakers have already released two compilations, with "Chapter 2" their latest to date.
Assembled by contributor and curator Squid Tempest, the Noisemakers collective seems set to expand and continue to make noise well into the future.
Squid Tempest scatters post-mix, scribbling wind synthesiser bursts and the song is effervescent as hell and in no hurry whatsoever.
www.squidweb.ndirect.co.uk /noisemakerschapter2review.html   (1072 words)

  
 Collaborative Research at Skidmore: Biology
Plan: The associate between the luminous bacterium Vibrio fischeri and the squid Euprymna scolopes is a model for understanding how beneficial bacteria interact with their host.
fischeri colonizes the squid and is provided nutrients in exchange for light, which the squid uses for its nocturnal activities.
As a defense against colonization, the squid possesses macrophage-like cells, similar to those seen in the mammalian immune system, that appear to destroy invading bacteria.
www.skidmore.edu /academics/biology.htm   (1578 words)

  
 Independent film, The Squid and the Whale, ready for rental - LifeStyle
His glacial personality and pompously doctrinaire stance on specific writer, novels, magazines, hair colors on women, et cetera eventually drove his wife (Linney), an aspiring writer, to infidelity.
Instead, The Squid and the Whale effective tells the story of four people, all equally flawed, each sharing his or her part in the mess they have made for themselves.
The Squid and the Whale is rated a deserved R for strong sexual situations and rampant adult language.
www.easttennessean.com /news/2006/03/27/Lifestyle/Independent.Film.The.Squid.And.The.Whale.Ready.For.Rental-1717257.shtml   (598 words)

  
 Psychroteuthis glacialis
Studies in the Weddell Sea found that "this is the most abundant muscular squid in the Weddell Sea and the only pelagic cephalopod which occurs in considerable numbers in the Antarctic Sea Ice Zone" (Piatkowski and Steimer, in manuscript).
Little is known about the ecology of this squid in spite of its importance in the Antarctic ecosystem.
Beak length analysis of the Southern Ocean squid Psychroteuthis glacialis (Cephalopoda: Psychroteuthidae) and its use for size and biomass estimation.
www.tolweb.org /tree?group=Psychroteuthidae   (622 words)

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