Turns out, the squid from hell has the eating habits of a nice, vegetarian Buddhist. (Or, more apropos, Bunnicula.) The squids’ entire diet is made of “marine snow” — floaty little bits of algae, poop, and bacteria.
Eating dead animals (which the actual article says is part of the ‘snow’) is typically inconsistent with being a vegetarian, but I’m sure that nice, vegetarian Buddhists will be pleased to know that eating dead animals and poop is in line with their eating habits.
Seriously, it’s difficult to BB’s complaints about how the mainstream news frequently misrepresents science seriously when stories like seem fairly typical here. Maybe the argument is that this is a fun site and doesn’t have to be accurate the way mainstream, serious media should be? Because blogging isn’t journalism? I don’t know.
