Invasion of the TKs*
Giant, or at least quite large, squid are invading the waters off California.
"Having a new, voracious predator set up shop here in California may be yet another thing for fishermen to compete with," said the study's co-author, Stanford University researcher Louis Zeidberg. "That said, if a squid saw a human they would jet the other way."
The cool thing about the above statement is that it's actually not true! The squid in question, known as the Humboldt, is in fact extremely aggressive, and has certainly been known to attack divers nutty enough to get in the water with them.
(By the way, the reason the squid's feeding habitats are changing and they're moving north? It's thought to be either a consequence of global warming, overfishing, or both.)
Meanwhile, pythons are invading Florida! (And no, I'm not talking about developers.)
Oh, and one of my favorite new websites, swimatyourownrisk.com, reports that Larry King will be talking tonight with people who've survived shark attacks (too bad he can't talk with sharks who've survived human attacks).
Swimatyourownrisk takes a hilarious perspective on shark attacks. (No, for real.) It revels in them.
Shark snacks on snorkeler in Hawaii! (Actual headline.)
The shark was apparently feeding on turtles and Miller says, unfortunately, he kinda resembles one.
Shark knocks man out of kayak!“Everyone had been fishing for a while — for a good two, three hours,” said John Dale of Foster City, a member of the kayak fishermen’s club. “From what he told me, basically he was fishing and was adjusting a lure, and all of a sudden he was thrown from his kayak into the water. When he came up, he thought he had been hit by a boat, but when he looked the shark was still on the front of his kayak, latched on, gnawing on the kayak. He thought about it for a second and decided he better get back onto the kayak, even though it was still on the nose.”
Shark attacks boy in Australia! (Update)He says he had his brother next to him during the attack and says he is glad he thought to punch the shark in the nose.
“If I didn’t punch it, then I would have lost my leg and if it got my brother, then he probably would have died, which is a lot worse,” he said.
It's darn good summertime reading.
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* This is a little (very little) journalism joke.
So is this:
