CreatureCast Web video series about wondrous animals

CreatureCast is a collaborative blog by evolutionary biologist Casey Dunn and his students at Brown University. They've just created their first CreatureCast Web video and it is fantastic. In this first episode of the series, Sophia Tintori discusses the magic of iridescence in squid. Tintori, who studies marine invertebrates called Siphonophorae, did the animation and audio production for the video. Fantastic work -- I can't wait for the next episode! CreatureCast Episode 1 (Thanks, Dr. Casey Dunn!)

[#1 posted by Takuan, August 17, 2009 10:47 AM]

one of those "I can't believe no one has tried this experiment before" moments.

[#2 posted by Anonymous, August 17, 2009 1:17 PM]

Love the "squid scientists" :)

[#3 posted by Daemon, August 17, 2009 9:46 PM]

This seems like a great prior-art example for a multi-touch interface.

The poking of the squid desperately needs to have been videotaped.

And finally, octopi go one better and can radically change the texture of their skin aswell.

[#4 posted by Anonymous, August 18, 2009 12:00 AM]

Cuttlefish, people. Cuttlefish.

[#5 posted by Takuan, August 18, 2009 7:19 AM]

can't they get military funding?