I can share a quick update based on recent reporting.
If you’d like, I can pull together a concise timeline of the key discoveries and summarize how beak fossils inform estimates of size and predatory behavior, with quick citations.
For decades, the ancient seas were imagined as a stage dominated by vertebrates. Nanaimoteuthis now complicates that picture. New research on fossilized beaks suggests some giant octopuses may have reached up to 19 metres in total length and were powerful predators in the Cretaceous oceans. That finding matters because it shifts attention to soft-bodied animals …
www.el-balad.comIn rocks collected from Japan and Vancouver Island, a story about nanaimoteuthis has emerged from what was once hidden in stone: a predatory octopus that may have lived as an open-water hunter in the Cretaceous seas and grown to extraordinary size. The fossil evidence points to an animal that was not just large, but active, …
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