Giant Squid Captured On Film Its Natural Habitat For The First Time! Whoa! The hardest part about finding a Kraken in its natural surroundings is sneaking up on it. You can’t sneak up on a Kraken. The Japanese team that captured this footage, of a comparatively tiny 3 meter giant squid (the largest ever caught was 18 meters!), did it by fitting their submersible with lights that were invisible to both squid and human eyes. Those wavelengths were captured by the camera, though … and the results are stunning. Read about the incredible work that went into capturing this amazing beast of the deep, this real-life sea monster, this ghost of the seas, at Scientific American. Check out the full video footage from ABC News. (click through if these GIFs aren’t animating on your dashboard … it’s an amazing thing to see)
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Giant Squid Captured On Film Its Natural Habitat For The First Time! Whoa! The hardest part about finding a Kraken in its natural surroundings is sneaking up on it. You can’t sneak up on a Kraken. The Japanese team that captured this footage, of a comparatively tiny 3 meter giant squid (the largest ever caught was 18 meters!), did it by fitting their submersible with lights that were invisible to both squid and human eyes. Those wavelengths were captured by the camera, though … and the results are stunning. Read about the incredible work that went into capturing this amazing beast of the deep, this real-life sea monster, this ghost of the seas, at Scientific American. Check out the full video footage from ABC News. (click through if these GIFs aren’t animating on your dashboard … it’s an amazing thing to see)
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Giant Squid Captured On Film Its Natural Habitat For The First Time!

Whoa!

The hardest part about finding a Kraken in its natural surroundings is sneaking up on it. You can’t sneak up on a Kraken. The Japanese team that captured this footage, of a comparatively tiny 3 meter giant squid (the largest ever caught was 18 meters!), did it by fitting their submersible with lights that were invisible to both squid and human eyes. Those wavelengths were captured by the camera, though … and the results are stunning.

Read about the incredible work that went into capturing this amazing beast of the deep, this real-life sea monster, this ghost of the seas, at Scientific American. Check out the full video footage from ABC News.

(click through if these GIFs aren’t animating on your dashboard … it’s an amazing thing to see)

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Biologists Track Biggest Florida Python – 17-Footer with 87 Eggs

“In April, geological survey biologists caught the largest python yet seen in the state — a female measuring 17 feet, 7 inches. After inserting four different tracking devices, they conducted a 38-day study of its feeding habits and movements. It turned out to be a wise move to stop the study then, because the snake was found with 87 eggs inside her during a necropsy.”

Read more from Andrew Revkin of The New York Times.

This is how it starts. This is how they breed. Snakeapocalypse.

PETA’S Campaign Against Animal Research Is Going To Get Scientists Hurt PETA has unleashed a campaign against animal research that I can only call reckless and dangerous. I fear it’s going to end with someone getting hurt. Animal research is not perfect. It is certainly used in situations where it is not necessary, but we have ntaional policies in place trying to reduce that. Institutions are required to review all animal protocols to reduce suffering and prove they are necessary. We would be in “absolute, utter darkness about AIDS” and other diseases if it weren’t for animal research, according to former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. Scientists worldwide agree that this research, when done responsibly and with compassion, is necessary to our progress and can not be simply “replicated with cell lines” like so many claim. Drug development, stem cell therapy, vaccine development and many other fields simply would not exist as they do today without responsible animal use. This is dangerous and completely reckless of PETA. Fringe groups like the Animal Liberation Front (I refuse to link to them) have already attacked the homes and property of U.S. researchers, even firebombing one’s car. When you use rhetoric invoking murder on one side, you invite the opposition to rise to moral warfare. Look what this kind of tactic has done for anti-abortion activists. I am an animal lover, and I support PETA’s opinions (somewhat) in many other arenas (farm animal treatment, the fur trade, show animals). But this is too far. They should publicly renounce this campaign and stop it immediately. Every celebrity that is associated with PETA (Russell Brand, Kristin Wiig, Kim Kardashian, Alicia Silverstone among others) should publicly renounce this as well. The risks are too great, and our progress and our safety is at stake. If anyone wants to discuss this issue, I’d love to educate or explain more, just hit ASK. I’m not backing down to threats from PETA, and other scientists shouldn’t either.
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PETA’S Campaign Against Animal Research Is Going To Get Scientists Hurt

PETA has unleashed a campaign against animal research that I can only call reckless and dangerous. I fear it’s going to end with someone getting hurt.

Animal research is not perfect. It is certainly used in situations where it is not necessary, but we have ntaional policies in place trying to reduce that. Institutions are required to review all animal protocols to reduce suffering and prove they are necessary.

We would be in “absolute, utter darkness about AIDS” and other diseases if it weren’t for animal research, according to former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. Scientists worldwide agree that this research, when done responsibly and with compassion, is necessary to our progress and can not be simply “replicated with cell lines” like so many claim. Drug development, stem cell therapy, vaccine development and many other fields simply would not exist as they do today without responsible animal use.

This is dangerous and completely reckless of PETA. Fringe groups like the Animal Liberation Front (I refuse to link to them) have already attacked the homes and property of U.S. researchers, even firebombing one’s car. When you use rhetoric invoking murder on one side, you invite the opposition to rise to moral warfare. Look what this kind of tactic has done for anti-abortion activists.

I am an animal lover, and I support PETA’s opinions (somewhat) in many other arenas (farm animal treatment, the fur trade, show animals). But this is too far. They should publicly renounce this campaign and stop it immediately. Every celebrity that is associated with PETA (Russell Brand, Kristin Wiig, Kim Kardashian, Alicia Silverstone among others) should publicly renounce this as well.

The risks are too great, and our progress and our safety is at stake. If anyone wants to discuss this issue, I’d love to educate or explain more, just hit ASK. I’m not backing down to threats from PETA, and other scientists shouldn’t either.

Source: blogs.discovermagazine.com