hey did you know that squids have a weird structure in the middle of their body called a pen? it looks and feels like plastic, with its shape super reminiscent of a feather pen (hence its name, i assume) so hypothetically if you had a dead squid you could dissect it, take out the pen, cut open the ink sack, dip the pen in the ink sack and use it as a normal pen. hash tag squid
wow that’s really cool! I looked it up and apparently it’s called a “gladius” and is used to support the squids body instead of an outer shell. I definitely think the 100% organic squid pen would be very nice!
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An old College friend gave me this... It has been the most threatened pen that I own... that people want to steal for themselves XD
I call it my squid pen. Since the shape kinda reminds me of the shape of a squid. Pressing the button, is unfolds. So neat!
hello! I have a squid question: do squid have bones? Or something cartilage-esque?
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Squid do NOT have bones, but some of them have internalized shells called pens, which are made of chitin. Their beaks are also made of chitin. Cuttlefish have "cuttlebones" but they're not bones like our bones, they're also internal shells made of aragonite.
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Squid Ink Curry
In ACNH: 1. Catch a Squid.
2. Cook at a stove with 3 Flour & 1 Squid
In Real Life: from India
Fish of Choice: There are two squid ink dishes in ACNH, but IRL, ink is usually collected from cuttlefish, although squid are sometimes used. Anyway, it is more accurately called "cephalopod ink".
Other Ingredients: The thing about curry is that it's defined by the "curry spices" used, and not really the base, which appears to be anything you want that will create some sort of sauce.
Here's a recipe that looks pretty good!
Mollusca is such a crazy group of animals. It's still hard to wrap my head around the fact that cephalopods - octopuses, squid, cuttlefish and all their various tentacled friends - are related to bivalves, like clams and oysters. They just...seem so distant from each other! And yeah, I've known this fact for 20+ years, but there's that magic that keeps driving me back to biology in general. To be honest, this relation is even more crazy to me than the cow and whale relation - at least those two both have eyes and are very mammal, y'know? Between a squid and a clam, they couldn't be more different - the disparity between their intelligence and body plans in crazy.
One of the most obvious differences is, of course, that one of them has a shell and the other one doesn't. That's so obvious, right?
WRONG*.
(*OK, not completely wrong - the majority of octopuses don't have shells, but the other cephalopods do!)
Just like with fish, you can clean and cut your own squid for dinner - very often, if you go to the fish market, you're going to see whole squid for sale. Get them. They are an extremely versatile (and sustainable!) protein (my friend at work makes a stuffed squid that is soooo good, but you can just make fried calamari, or throw some cut squid "noodles" into soup. Endless possibilities!). When you go to clean your squid, you'll notice that this soft-bodied animal has a stiffening rod in its body called the "pen". You'll obviously remove this, because no one wants to chew on toenail. And whoever named this structure was on fire - calling this thin structure the pen when squid make ink? Amazing. (It's also called the gladius, but pen is better. Sorry not sorry.)
Pens come in many shapes and sizes!
The origin of the pen is actually the remnants of the cephalopod shell in decapodiformes, the squid, and one octopodiforme, the vampire squid. Just like their cousins, the clams and the snails, cephalopods of the past had shells - just look at the ammonites and the still-alive nautilus. Squid traded their shell defenses for maneuverability and speed, but they didn't lose them completely! Same for cuttlefish which have a similar structure called a "cuttlebone".
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