Ancient Octopuses Were MUCH Bigger Than We Thought
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The Cretaceous Period is famous for enormous ocean-dwelling beasts. New research shows it boasted the biggest octopuses, and maybe the biggest invertebrates, of all time.
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Then there’s the evidence that these animals had unusually powerful “jaws,” which I think throws another wrench into our ability to predict size, since it’s not uncommon for animals that evolve proportionally powerful jaws to also evolve proportionally larger mouths than their relatives.
This is why I don’t like leaning so heavily on superlative size estimates of extinct animals we have very limited fossil evidence of; you can get situations like megalodon, where the general public becomes so invested in the idea of a badass superpredator it becomes difficult to disseminate further developments in our understanding of the animal.
Having spent a fair amount of time on Vancouver Island, I appreciate the genus name Nanaimoteuthis...
Tully monster name check!
Ancient Octopuses Were MUCH Bigger Than We Thought
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The Cretaceous Period is famous for enormous ocean-dwelling beasts. New research shows it boasted the biggest octopuses, and maybe the biggest invertebrates, of all time.
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