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The squid that holds its arms like elbows, and the question of whether it’s rare

The squid that holds its arms like elbows, and the question of whether it’s rare

Sep 13, 2026 | Journal

The bigfin squid is not, strictly speaking, rare. Or it is. The honest answer in 2026 is that we still don't know, and the difference between the two readings of the same word is where the interesting science now sits. Magnapinna is a genus of deep-sea cephalopod...
The Fish With the Green Eyes, and the Century It Spent in a Jar

The Fish With the Green Eyes, and the Century It Spent in a Jar

Aug 30, 2026 | Journal

There is a fish that has been on the books since 1901 and has only just, this past July, been seen alive. It is about fifteen centimetres long, has no real neck to speak of, and its head is a transparent dome filled with fluid, inside which two tubular eyes point...

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