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Release the Kraken: 60-foot Octopuses Predators 100 Million Years Ago, Fossils Shows

April 27, 2026

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Size comparison of N. haggarti to its contemporaneous competitors – credit, Hokkaido University

The kraken: a giant squid or octopus of myth, seems to have swam in the Cretaceous oceans, a Japanese study shows.

Recovering a selection of truly revolutionary fossils from sediments in…

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