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New discovery suggests existence of 60-foot, kraken-like octopus
"It challenges the common view of an 'age of vertebrates' in marine ecosystems." ...
The massive invertebrates may have been top predators, according to an analysis of their fossilized jaws. The work suggests ...
The ancient cephalopod, Nanaimoteuthis haggarti, appears to have been an apex predator that rivaled mosasaurs to rule prehistoric seas.
New analyses of fossilized jaws reveal that massive, kraken-like octopuses once hunted alongside other marine predators.
“These findings revise the view of the Cretaceous ocean as a world dominated only by large vertebrate predators,” study ...
A study describes two species with powerful beaks, and possibly intelligent, that hunted in the Cretaceous seas ...
Whale-sized, monstrous octopuses prowled the seas during the Age of Dinosaurs, snatching prey with their huge tentacles and ...
Study of fossilised beaks shows patterns of wear and suggests some ancient species were up to 19 metres long Giant “kraken-like” octopuses that used powerful beaks to crunch through bones of prey were ...
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