URI researcher sheds light on 'man-eating' squid

Thursday, July 23, 2009 - 11:35 in Biology & Nature

News reports last week about scuba divers off San Diego being menaced by large numbers of Humboldt's or jumbo squid have raised the ire of University of Rhode Island biologist Brad Seibel. As a leading expert on the species who has dived with them several times, he calls the reports 'alarmist' and says the squid's man-eating reputation is seriously overblown...

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