Sentences with phrase «vampire squid»

The Cheshire cat of capitalism will depart sometime this year having executed a smooth succession plan, grown a gray everyman beard, and rehabilitated, at least in part, the image of a New York investment bank memorably described in 2009 as «a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.»

Among soft - bodied cephalopods, vampire squid live life at a slower pace.

I believe it is a one thing bubble, the counterfeit currency, the fake debt note dollar, that is the evil vampire squid.

Where nothing lived in 2010 there are now at least a few fish, crabs, amphipods, shrimp, mounds that reflect burrowing organisms and even vampire squid.

«Vampire squid discovery shows how little we know of the deep sea.»

The researchers have now characterized the reproductive status of more than 40 vampire squid females.

Hoving and his colleagues were led to the discovery quite by accident as they were going through vampire squid collections dating back to the 1960s and 1970s at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

While other squid reproduce all at once late in their lives, vampire squid appear to alternate between reproductive and resting phases.

«Perhaps it is therefore that vampire squid return to a gonadal resting phase after spawning, and presumably start accumulating energy for a new reproductive cycle.»

Now, researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on April 20 have found that vampire squid differ from all other living coleoid cephalopods in their reproductive strategy as well.

The findings suggest that vampire squid live longer than shallow - water squid species typically do.

This is the writer who famously called Goldman Sachs «a great vampire squid, wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.»

Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America (Spiegel & Grau) Matt Taibbi

The vampire squid dollar is looking for a place to hide, running out of places to hide.

A vampire squid from hell, which has assumed its defensive «pineapple posture» by throwing its arms over its head.

Vampyroteuthis, or vampire squid, is a cephalopod that lives in the oxygen minimum zone of Monterey Bay, California, at depths of 600 - 900 meters.

However, each of these initiatives is one more stake into the heart of the vampire squid Publishers (due apologies to Matt Taibbi).

Tusoteuthis Vampyrus: A monstrous relative of the vampire squid, Tusoteuthis bears a closer resemblance to giant squids.

The showstopper, however, was the mind - boggling «Griftopia» (2011), an elaborately conceived and brilliantly executed five - by - ten - foot drawing based on Matt Taibbi's 2010 book Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America, an exposé probing the labyrinthine collusions and self - dealing among the moneyed elite that precipitated the crash of» 08.