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What Is Squid Ink?
Our friend the Giant Squid inspired a SciShow Kids viewer to write us and ask, 'What is squid ink, and can you write with it?' Jessi has the answers!
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SciShow Quiz Show: Weird Water Creatures & Spontaneous Combustion!
SciShow Quiz Show is back, with familiar faces Hank Green and Caitlin Hofmeister battling it out over questions on water, fire, and computer science!
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Sparkling Clouds and Other Wild Ways Cephalopods Use Ink
Octopuses and other cephalopods can squirt ink when threatened, but the forms the ink takes can go way beyond your typical smokescreen.
Professor Dave Explains
Phylum Mollusca Part 4: Class Cephalopoda (Squids, Nautiluses, Cuttlefish, and Octopuses)
We now arrive at the most famous of the mollusks, the cephalopods. These include squids, nautiluses, cuttlefish, and the fascinating octopuses. These creatures are the largest and most intelligent invertebrates on Earth. Let's learn all...
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Mitk12: Squid Skin With a Mind of Its Own
When someone cuts the nerves from a squid brain to the skin, something unexpected happens with the tiny pouches of colored pigment, called chromatophores. Emily takes you behind this phenomenon, and how it can be explained and modeled on...