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Giant school bus-sized octopuses may have once ruled the oceans
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Lillian Steenblik Hwang
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Paleontologists have identified fossilized jaw remains suggesting that giant, school-bus-sized octopuses inhabited the oceans during the Late Cretaceous Period. These findings provide new insights into the role of cephalopods in the marine ecosystem alongside dinosaurs.
Why it matters
This discovery expands our understanding of prehistoric marine biodiversity and the evolutionary history of soft-bodied invertebrates.
The largest invertebrates ever known, they lived in the age of dinosaurs
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The article is a straightforward scientific report based on paleontological findings.
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