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Aquarium Hall Renovations Get Underway
Monday, October 06, 2014

The Aquarium Hall will be closed from Monday 6th October and is expected to reopen of March 2015.


Aquarium Hall to close for repairs
Saturday, October 04, 2014

The Aquarium Hall will be closed from Monday as work to replace the roof begins.


Have fun and raise money with Zoobilee!
Thursday, October 02, 2014

The Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo will be transformed this coming weekend as the Bermuda Zoological Society holds the latest instalment of its wildly popular event Zoobilee: The Hungry Game


Let the Hungry Games begin
Thursday, September 25, 2014

Face-painting, hopscotch and selfie stations — they’re all part of The Hunger Games, Bermuda style.


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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

The fifth installment of the Bermuda Zoological Society’s “Zoobilee: The Hungry Games” is set for Saturday, October 4.



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Deep sea squid found off The Reefs
Royal Gazette
Saturday, March 28, 2015

By Jonathan Bell
Published Mar 28, 2015 at 8:00 am (Updated Mar 28, 2015 at 12:50 am)

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A screen grab from Choy Aming's Facebook newsfeed that shows the deep sea squid

A squid carcass several feet long that washed up at a beach in Southampton looked so alive that diver Choy Aming had to check to make sure.

The four-foot squid was spotted yesterday morning by his friend Travis Lewis, who was working on decking at The Reefs hotel.

“The body was so fresh that when I hosed it off, the tentacles kept sticking to my hand,” Mr Aming said.

“At first I gave it a little wiggle just to see if it would move; it was that fresh.”

The diamondback squid, Thysanoteuthis rhombus, had probably died that morning. The body retained its distinctive red pigment.

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“I knew they exist in the area, but I’ve never seen one,” he said.

“The egg sac is about three or four feet long and looks like a purple slinky — a lot of time out whale watching I have run across them in the water.”

The squid’s red colour indicates that it lives in deep water, Mr Aming said, explaining that redness is a common trait of deep sea creatures, as red is one of the first colours to disappear as light filters into the sea.

“It was probably 40 pounds. It took the two of us to carry it off.” Mr Lewis subsequently drove the squid to the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo for study.

The animals, which are so-called for their shape, frequent depths of around 160ft, but are known to come up near the surface at night. Diamondback squid are found around the world in tropical or subtropical waters.