Giant school bus–sized octopuses may have once ruled the oceans

Giant school bus–sized octopuses may have once ruled the oceans

The kraken — a giant, tentacled sea monster that dragged ships into the depths — is a creature of Norwegian myth. But millions of years ago, a similar, real-life animal roamed the oceans, a new study finds. The new analysis of jaw fossils suggests that as dinosaurs ruled the land, whale-sized octopuses ruled the seas. These super-sized cephalopods would have been the largest marine animals of the Late Cretaceous Period. That’s from about 66 mill…