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3 days ago

Daily briefing: The heart's pumping motion seems to keep cancer at bay

Giant octopuses may have dominated ancient seas, while heart mechanics inhibit tumor growth in mice.
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fromwww.npr.org
3 days ago

A real-life Kraken stalked the seas of the late Cretaceous

Ancient colossal octopuses, possibly the largest invertebrates ever, were discovered, measuring up to 60 feet long, rivaling other apex predators.
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4 days ago

Did kraken-like octopuses rule Cretaceous seas? Massive jaw fossils offer clues

The analysis grouped the krakens into two species: Nanaimoteuthis jeletzkyi and N. haggarti, and discovered that they belong to the same evolutionary group as modern dumbo octopuses.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
4 days ago

Meet the real-life Kraken' that ruled the Cretaceous seas

An analysis of fossil jaws belonging to octopuses that lived between 100 million and 72 million years ago shows that these creatures may have been the largest animals in the sea and smart to boot, rivaling sharks and marine reptiles in their powers of predation.
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fromMail Online
4 days ago

Real-life KRAKEN: Giant octopuses roamed oceans 72 million years ago

Giant 'kraken-like' octopuses, measuring up to 62 feet, ruled ancient oceans and competed with large marine reptiles during the Late Cretaceous period.
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fromenglish.elpais.com
10 months ago

A dinosaur's last supper: Gut of a 100-million-year-old sauropod sheds light on its diet

The first direct evidence of sauropod diet was found, confirming their herbivorous nature with cololite evidence.
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10 months ago

A dinosaur's last supper: Gut of a 100-million-year-old sauropod sheds light on its diet

The first direct evidence of sauropod diet was found, confirming their herbivorous nature with cololite evidence.
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fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

A chicken-sized dinosaur related to T. rex debunks the hypothesis that its lineage shrank

A complete skeleton of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis, one of the smallest nonavian theropods ever recorded, was discovered in Argentina and published in Nature, revealing a chicken-sized carnivorous dinosaur from 95 million years ago.
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2 months ago

Newly discovered dinosaur species was a fish-eater with a huge horn

Spinosaurus mirabilis was a school-bus-length, fish-eating spinosaur with a foot-long curved horn that lived in Cretaceous marshes about 95 million years ago.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
9 months ago

Denver museum known for dinosaur displays finds fossil under its parking lot

A Denver museum discovered a dinosaur bone fossil beneath its parking lot while drilling for geothermal studies.
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