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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

ScienceDaily: Strange Science News

ScienceDaily: Strange Science News


Giant 'kraken' lair discovered: Cunning sea monster that preyed on ichthyosaurs

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 04:55 AM PDT

Long before whales, the oceans of Earth were roamed by a very different kind of air-breathing leviathan. Snaggle-toothed ichthyosaurs larger than school buses swam at the top of the Triassic Period ocean food chain, or so it seemed before paleontologist Mark McMenamin took a look at some of their remains in Nevada. Now he thinks there was an even larger and more cunning sea monster that preyed on ichthyosaurs: a 'kraken' of such mythological proportions it would have sent Captain Nemo running for dry land.

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