2011-02-28

rivendellrose: (octopus curly)
2011-02-28 10:33 pm

eight arms

In all the hubbub recently, I think I forgot to mention the other project I've been working on. Meet eight-arms.com, AKA Eight Arms Outpost, the other blog I've been sort of running lately. It's more or less a toy project, but it's been giving me a chance every week or so to blog about cephalopods, and I always approve of that.

This week I took a quick-and-easy skeptical look at a news story that came across my Google feed about a deceased giant octopus that washed up on the coast of Syria... and was reported as being 9 meters long and weighing 2 tons. And if you're thinking that sounds awfully big, that's exactly what I thought, too...