Vidéo : Des milliers de bébés calmars dans une grosse enveloppe gélatineuse (Norvège)

@MAC_Ak
Euh, c'est un truc qui est "pondu" ça? J'imagine mal la taille du bestiau...

une grosse enveloppe gélatineuse

@MAC_Ak
Euh, c'est un truc qui est "pondu" ça? J'imagine mal la taille du bestiau...

@365wanda
Fascinant. Quelqu'un a l'explication pour ce phénomène?

@Biafine
@ 365wanda (...) Ici, j'ai simplement envie de dire qu'il ne s'agit pas d'une masse gélatineuse qui contient des milliers d'oeufs, mais simplement un seul oeuf ... qui se serait détaché de sa grappe. Et avant maturité du calmar junior contenu dedans.

Dr. Michael Vecchione of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History was the first to propose a suggestion. Dr. Vecchione is an expert on squid, and to him this giant sphere looks like a huge squid egg mass, and it’s the largest he’s ever seen. In fact, egg masses like this may be floating off many major coasts, not just Turkey’s. But what kind of squid, specifically, could produce a mass this big?

Dr. Vecchione best guess? A large red flying squid named Ommastrephes bartramii. These animal can grow to around 1.5 meters (~5 feet) in length. As their name suggests, red flying squid can fly, or rather glide, by jetting out of the water and flattening their tentacles and fins to make “wings”. They’ve also got arms packed with suckers complete with “teeth”.

But no one has actually seen a red flying squid lay eggs. Is the red flying squid even capable of producing an egg mass so big.

In all likelihood, yes. Only once has another egg mass this big been reported, and it belonged to one of the largest, most intelligent, and dangerous squid known. The humboldt squid is an oceanic velociraptor. Smart, strong, and agile, these 2-meter-long squid form packs, flashing quickfire communication to each other using specialized color-changing skin.

In 2008, Danna Staaf and her colleagues documented, for the first time, a humboldt squid egg mass, which they found in the Gulf of California. It is the only egg mass known to rival the one divers found in Turkey. The egg mass Dr. Staaf described was between 3 and 4 meters long, making it the largest ever recorded in the scientific literature. And the number of eggs inside? Oh, between 600 thousand and 2 million–ten times more than any other squid ever recorded

In the photos, small dots are eggs, while larger structures in the egg mass have not been identified.

@Biafine

Ici, j'ai simplement envie de dire qu'il ne s'agit pas d'une masse gélatineuse qui contient des milliers d'oeufs, mais simplement un seul oeuf ... qui se serait détaché de sa grappe. Et avant maturité du calmar junior contenu dedans.