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Real life "kraken" existed as 19m octopus that hunted apex predators
5+ day, 22+ hour ago (402+ words) Real-life krakens ruled Earth's oceans long before the myth ever existed, with new research suggesting giant octopus-like predators once sat at the very top of the food chain. A study published via Science on April 23 reveals that ancient finned octopuses…...
Meet the 19-meter Cretaceous kraken that swam with mosasaurs
5+ day, 19+ hour ago (389+ words) Layer by layer, researchers revealed the jaws of an ancient predator. Some 80 million years ago, the late Cretaceous oceans were patrolled by 17-meter mosasaurs, long-necked plesiosaurs, and massive, predatory sharks. For decades, the paleontological consensus was that this was the…...
Cretaceous "Kraken" octopus discovered as apex predator of ancient seas
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (663+ words) The Kraken is a huge tentacled sea monster from Norse folklore that drags ships and sailors down into the deep. During the age of dinosaurs, "new research shows, there existed a creature as close to a real-life Kraken as you…...
New megafauna looked like spiky, 30-pound hamster
1+ week, 4+ day ago (284+ words) In the latest episode of old museum collections revealing new discoveries, two researchers in Australia have solved a paleontological mystery with an Ice Age fossil first discovered over" 100 years ago. The fossil was found in" the underground Foul Air Cave…...
Paleontologists Discover 62-foot Kraken-like Octopus That Ruled the Cretaceous Ocean
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (1192+ words) Home " Science " Paleontology Ancient finned octopuses may have been among the ocean's top predators A fossil beak from an ancient octopus has forced scientists to rethink who ruled the Cretaceous seas. Researchers say two extinct species of finned octopus may…...
'Kraken' octopus that lived at the time of the dinosaurs was a 62-foot-long apex predator of the ocean
6+ day, 14+ hour ago (651+ words) Scientists have identified enormous finned "kraken" octopuses that may have reached up to 62 feet (19 meters) long. The behemoths prowled the oceans during the Cretaceous and could be the largest invertebrates ever discovered. This finding suggests scientists need to rethink the…...
Did kraken-like octopuses rule Cretaceous seas? Massive jaw fossils offer clues
1+ week, 57+ min ago (497+ words) In the age of the dinosaurs, while Tyrannosaurus rex terrorized the land, gargantuan octopuses might have been among the top predators in the sea. Scientists have identified extinct octopuses " sometimes named krakens after the mythological monsters " that might have grown…...
Scientists unearth evidence of 19-metre "kraken-sized" octopuses as big as lorries
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (344+ words) Octopuses the size of lorries once prowled the planet's oceans when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, new fossil discoveries suggest. Scientists have long believed that sharks and giant marine reptiles dominated the seas during the Cretaceous era " such as 11-metre-long mosasaurs…...
Ancient giant Octopuses may have ruled the oceans 100 million years ago " New study reveals massive marine predators
5+ day, 27+ min ago (655+ words) In a remarkable breakthrough in ancient marine life, prehistoric ocean predators, and octopus evolution research, scientists suggest that giant octopuses may have dominated the seas nearly 100 million years ago, during the age of dinosaurs. This new discovery is reshaping long-held…...
New fossil discoveries suggest existence of giant "kraken" octopuses as large as lorries
6+ day, 3+ hour ago (366+ words) A kraken-like octopus the size of a lorry prowled Earth's oceans back when dinosaurs ruled the land, new fossil discoveries have suggested. Scientists have believed that sharks and giant marine reptiles dominated the seas during the Cretaceous era, such as…...