Keuppia levante is one of three newly-discovered species of 95 million-year-old octopuses. Octopus fossils are among the rarest and unlikeliest of fossils.
Posted on 03/22/2009 9:35:19 AM PDT by JoeProBono
It's hard enough to find fossils of hard things like dinosaur bones. Now scientists have found evidence of 95 million-year-old octopuses, among the rarest and unlikeliest of fossils, complete with ink and suckers. The body of an octopus is composed almost entirely of muscle and skin. When an octopus dies, it quickly decays and liquefies into a slimy blob. After just a few days there will be nothing left at all. And that assumes that the fresh carcass is not consumed almost immediately by scavengers. The result is that preservation of an octopus as a fossil is about as unlikely as finding a fossil sneeze, and none of the 200 to 300 species of octopus known today had ever been found in fossilized form, said Dirk Fuchs of the Freie University Berlin, lead author of the report.
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Keuppia levante is one of three newly-discovered species of 95 million-year-old octopuses. Octopus fossils are among the rarest and unlikeliest of fossils.
Cool!
That could be a modern painting hanging in a gallery somewhere. ... way cool
They could be mistaken.
That might just be Casper the Fossilized Ghost.
Don’t eat the old Sushi.
oh man, now they’ve pissed off the Intergalactic Federation of Octopuses for violation of a sacred king, Octopus Maximus. man.. we gonna be doused in ink.
Are we sure it’s only 95 million years old and not 95 trillion????
yup. Octopuses have been around a lot longer than us. case in point, they ascended to a higher plane several million years ago. you know them aurora lights? that’s them.
That is absolutely incredible.
I’m gonna need a few for the Washington Capitols home games during the Stanley Cup playoffs.
can they proove its ONLY 95,000,000,000,000,000,000 etc years old..? I found a worm in a can that was 8 days old...and I can proove it.... I put it there.
great fossil find indeed, but I doubt the numbers..
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AND cats too...right?
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However, I do love deepfried catFish.
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