'Kraken' octopus that lived at the time of the dinosaurs was a 62-foot-long apex predator of the ocean
1mon 24d ago by piefed.social/u/solo in palaeontology@mander.xyz from www.livescience.com
A close inspection of 27 fossil jaws from finned octopuses challenge the longstanding belief that the apex oceanic predators of the Cretaceous were all vertebrates.
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Honestly, my biggest takeaway from this was "holy shit sharks are a lot bigger than I realized".