The aquarium is also home to the Zucker Family Sea Turtle Recovery Center. The aquarium opened in 2000 on the historic Charleston Harbor and has over 5,000 animal ambassadors representing about 270 species found across South Carolina. Our guest today is here to answer all of our questions about the giant squid and all things deep sea! Brian Thill is here to share with us a bit about his work at the South Carolina Aquarium. These enormous organisms can be found in some pretty deep water, and since they don’t breathe air like whales or dolphins, the squid do not need to be near the surface water. What makes the giant squid unique is how big they are! They truly live up to their name "giant," as they can be 33 feet long and weigh 440 pounds! The giant squid remains largely a mystery to scientists despite being so large because of where they live. These organisms are voracious hunters and will eat things like fish and other squid found in the deepest parts of the ocean. Like other squid species, the giant squid has eight arms and two longer feeding tentacles that help them bring food to their beak-like mouths. HOST: Now, before we begin our chat, let’s set the stage for today’s deep dive. Inkling and the Octonauts search for Irving and the episode ends with Inking and Irving being reunited and taking a family photo. Professor Inkling realizes that the creature that grabbed the Gup-A is Inkling's long-lost cousin, Irving the Giant Squid. While exploring the ocean in the Gup-A, Captain Barnacles and Kwazii are grabbed by a mysterious creature. Today, we’re talking about Episode 6 - The Giant Squid. Today, I’m your host, Gabrielle Corradino. This podcast is hosted by NOAA’s Office of Education and the Coastal Ecosystem Learning Center Network. HOST: Our monthly podcast brings together experts from inside and outside of NOAA to help you - and the children you care about - learn more about the real-life versions of the Octonauts sea creatures and the ocean they call home. MUSIC: Explore! Rescue! Protect! Octonauts! Their mission: to explore the world’s ocean, rescue the creatures who live there, and protect their habitats. HOST: You’re listening to "NOAA & the Octonauts" - an episode-by-episode discussion of the children’s TV show The Octonauts, which features a crew of quirky and courageous undersea adventurers. MUSIC: Octonauts, to your stations! Barnacles! Kwazii! Peso! Sam Scott is a senior writer at Stanford. The fossil record shows sea stars’ ancestors appeared to have torsos, which raises a new question: When in evolutionary time did sea stars lose their swim trunks? “It’s as if the sea star is completely missing a trunk and is best described as just a head crawling along the seafloor,” lead author Laurent Formery, a postdoc in the lab of Stanford biology professor Christopher Lowe, said in a news release. The researchers found genetic signatures associated with head development in other animals distributed throughout the sea star’s arms and center, while discovering a small amount of genetic patterning for a tail and none for a trunk. Far from headless, starfish are mostly head, according to a study from Stanford and UC Berkeley that used genetic and molecular tools to create a 3D atlas of gene expression throughout sea stars’ bodies. Considering that they have no brain, you might conclude they have no head at all.Īu contraire. While most animals have a head-to-tail body plan, the anatomy of sea stars, with their five radiating arms, defies usual classifications. Naturalists have long struggled to make heads or tails of sea stars, aka starfish.
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