8 Arm Assistance
8 Arm Assistance
Marine biology with a cephalopod twist...
NPR - Octopuses' Big Brains And Unique Behavior Spur Basic Research
NPR - Octopuses' Big Brains And Unique Behavior Spur Basic Research
At the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., there's a room filled with burbling aquariums. A lot of them have lids weighed down with big rocks. ...Grasse's part of a team that's trying to figure out the best ways to raise these sea creatures in captivity, so that scientists can investigate their genes and learn the secrets of their strange, almost alien ways.
Hakai Magazine - The Newest Lab Rat Has Eight Arms
Hakai Magazine - The Newest Lab Rat Has Eight Arms
Move over mice and fruit flies, the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, is busy developing the next great model organism for science...
A World First: MBL Team Births Multiple Generations of Pygmy Zebra Octopus
A World First: MBL Team Births Multiple Generations of Pygmy Zebra Octopus
Hundreds of tiny, orange-speckled pygmy zebra octopuses, each no bigger than a grain of rice, have safely hatched out in the MBL’s Marine Resources Center. And Bret Grasse, Manager of Cephalopod Operations, couldn’t be more proud....
The Atlantic - So You Know, This Is How to Incubate Baby Cephalopods in a Soda Bottle
The Atlantic - So You Know, This Is How to Incubate Baby Cephalopods in a Soda Bottle
Say you find yourself, as one occasionally does, in need of incubating some baby cuttlefish. Say you don't have a lot of money, as one occasionally does not, to do the incubating of said cuttlefish....
ScienceFriday - This cuttlefish dazzles
ScienceFriday - This cuttlefish dazzles
Internet chatter suggests that the flamboyant cuttlefish—known for ambling along the seafloor and flashing brilliant displays—is toxic. What does the science say?...
WIRED - Absurd Creature of the Week: Cross-Dressing Cuttlefish Puts on World’s Most Spectacular Light Show
WIRED - Absurd Creature of the Week: Cross-Dressing Cuttlefish Puts on World’s Most Spectacular Light Show
BEFORE WE HAD the luxuries of modern science, folks used to believe that every land animal had a counterpart in the sea. So in the depths there naturally must be sea cows, sea unicorns, and even sea pigs. By that logic, there must also be sea humans, and if we’re going to get specific, I’d like to nominate a sea hipster: the cuttlefish...
Drum and Croaker - 2014
Drum and Croaker - 2014
THE BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS, LIFE CYCLE, AND SYSTEM DESIGN FOR
THE FLAMBOYANT AND PAINTPOT CUTTLEFISH, Metasepia sp., CULTURED
THROUGH MULTIPLE GENERATIONS
Advances in Cephalopod Science: Biology, Ecology, Cultivation, and Fisheries (coauthor)
Advances in Cephalopod Science: Biology, Ecology, Cultivation, and Fisheries (coauthor)
Marine Biology series-addresses major themes of growing research interest in the field of cephalopod research. The book is composed of four chapters incorporating the latest advances in biology, ecology, life cycles, cultivation, and fisheries of cephalopods. Each chapter is written by a team of internationally recognized authorities to reflect recent findings and understanding....
Alert Diver
Alert Diver
An Alien Invasion
If Mack and the boys stumbled out of John Steinbeck's Cannery Row and down the street into the back door of Monterey Bay Aquarium, they might mistake it for the clandestine hatchery of an alien invasion force...
Lab Animal - Considering the Cephalopod
Lab Animal - Considering the Cephalopod
Octopuses, squids, and cuttlefishes all have potential as lab animals. As models emerge, what goes in to keeping them happy and healthy in the lab?
The Falmouth Enterprise - A Home For Cephalopods At MBL
The Falmouth Enterprise - A Home For Cephalopods At MBL
The California two-spot octopus was anticipating dinner last week. Its tentacles spread out, and the two spots on either side of its body that give the animal its name darkened. Bret Grasse, the manager of cephalopod operation at the Marine Biological Laboratory where the octopus resides, described this as common behavior when someone approaches the tank...
The Kids Should See This: The Cephalopod Empire in Woods Hole, Massachusetts
The Kids Should See This: The Cephalopod Empire in Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Learn more about the five adorable species candidates being studied and cared for at MBL—the Striped Pyjama Squid, the Dwarf Cuttlefish, the Flamboyant Cuttlefish, the Hawaiian Bobtail Squid, and the Two-Spot Octopus