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Scientists Discover a Bizarre Jurassic “Squid” Unlike Anything Ever Seen
The rare fossil shows a barrel-shaped skeleton and may have helped the Jurassic predator hunt smaller belemnites, researchers said.
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Scientists have identified the “fattest” belemnite ever discovered, a bizarre, barrel-shaped squid relative that lived in Wyoming’s ancient seas 160 million years ago. The exceptionally rare fossils reveal a creature unlike anything previously known, potentially a predator of smaller squid-like animals and a surprising survivor of a supposedly vanished family.
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Two rare fossils in Wyoming have revealed a new species of belemnite, a cephalopod related to squids, that lived 160 million years ago.
Wyoming Fossils Reveal the Relative of the Fattest Squids Already Found, with Barrel-Shaped Skeleton
Two fossils found in Wyoming, in the United States, revealed the most robust belemnite ever described: a relative of the squids with internal skeleton in shape...
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