#cephalopods — Public Fediverse posts

🦑 NEW: A #fossil found in #Wyoming three decades ago is now identified as a new #belemnite species, "Wyoteuthis linsterorum", a 160-million-year-old relative of #squid and #octopus.

Its internal shell was unusually wide, suggesting a body nearly 60 cm long, and it belongs to a family thought long extinct. CT scanning of two specimens showed the #animal hunted smaller #cephalopods and possibly its own kind.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/chunky-jurassic-squid-fossil-wyoming/

#paleontology #jurassic #science #nature #evolution #prehistoric #museum

🦑 NEW: A #fossil found in #Wyoming three decades ago is now identified as a new #belemnite species, "Wyoteuthis linsterorum", a 160-million-year-old relative of #squid and #octopus.

Its internal shell was unusually wide, suggesting a body nearly 60 cm long, and it belongs to a family thought long extinct. CT scanning of two specimens showed the #animal hunted smaller #cephalopods and possibly its own kind.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/chunky-jurassic-squid-fossil-wyoming/

#paleontology #jurassic #science #nature #evolution #prehistoric #museum

🦑 NEW: A #fossil found in #Wyoming three decades ago is now identified as a new #belemnite species, "Wyoteuthis linsterorum", a 160-million-year-old relative of #squid and #octopus.

Its internal shell was unusually wide, suggesting a body nearly 60 cm long, and it belongs to a family thought long extinct. CT scanning of two specimens showed the #animal hunted smaller #cephalopods and possibly its own kind.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/chunky-jurassic-squid-fossil-wyoming/

#paleontology #jurassic #science #nature #evolution #prehistoric #museum

🦑 NEW: A #fossil found in #Wyoming three decades ago is now identified as a new #belemnite species, "Wyoteuthis linsterorum", a 160-million-year-old relative of #squid and #octopus.

Its internal shell was unusually wide, suggesting a body nearly 60 cm long, and it belongs to a family thought long extinct. CT scanning of two specimens showed the #animal hunted smaller #cephalopods and possibly its own kind.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/chunky-jurassic-squid-fossil-wyoming/

#paleontology #jurassic #science #nature #evolution #prehistoric #museum

🦑 NEW: A #fossil found in #Wyoming three decades ago is now identified as a new #belemnite species, "Wyoteuthis linsterorum", a 160-million-year-old relative of #squid and #octopus.

Its internal shell was unusually wide, suggesting a body nearly 60 cm long, and it belongs to a family thought long extinct. CT scanning of two specimens showed the #animal hunted smaller #cephalopods and possibly its own kind.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/chunky-jurassic-squid-fossil-wyoming/

#paleontology #jurassic #science #nature #evolution #prehistoric #museum

Scientists filmed this rare Arctic squid in the wild for the first time, guarding its eggs in sub-zero water inside the world’s largest national park

Credit: Maroni, P.J., Cornet, J., Skorikova,…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Wildlife #Arcticsquid #Cephalopods #climatechange #eggclusters #high-resolutionunderwatervideo #marinebiodiversity #MarineEcosystems #NortheastGreenlandNationalPark #Rossiamoelleri #Science #sub-zerowater
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/790201/

Scientists filmed this rare Arctic squid in the wild for the first time, guarding its eggs in sub-zero water inside the world’s largest national park

Credit: Maroni, P.J., Cornet, J., Skorikova, Y. et al./Springer Nature In the …
#NewsBeep #News #Wildlife #Arcticsquid #CA #Canada #Cephalopods #climatechange #eggclusters #high-resolutionunderwatervideo #Marinebiodiversity #MarineEcosystems #NortheastGreenlandNationalPark #Rossiamoelleri #Science #sub-zerowater
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/831336/

Giant, #kraken-like #octopuses may have ruled the #Cretaceous deep
Fossilized jaws reveal that enormous octopuses growing up to 19 meters long were top predators in the #oceans during an era when #dinosaurs ruled on land. These super-sized #cephalopods would have been the largest marine animals of the Cretaceous Period and may be the biggest #invertebrates to ever live
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/kraken-octopus-largest-invertebrate
https://archive.ph/9XoOB

Golden Ornament in Form of an Octopus, Found by Dr. Schliemann at Mycenae. (1883) by Henry Lee, from Sea Fables Explained.

Source: University of Toronto Libraries / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/318461e7-6560-4a68-a5c9-6a64eb4efcfd

#cephalopods #archeology #ancient-greece #gold #octopuses #monsters #sea-monsters #ornament #fables #art #publicdomain

This extinct ten-armed fossil may be earliest known ancestor of vampire squid - Enlarge / An artistic reconstruction of the newly described 328-million... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1838781 #extinctspecies #paleontology #vampiresquid #cephalopods #vampyropods #science #fossils