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…
Source: ScienceDaily | Evolutionary Biology
ScienceDaily | Evolutionary Biology
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- A forgotten fossil reveals a fearsome dinosaur with giant claws
- Gigantic prehistoric snake discovered in India may have been one of the largest ever
- 210-million-year-old dinosaur discovery reveals a lost world in Africa
- This tiny jurassic predator helped pave the way for the human brain
- Scientists found Homo erectus 200,000 years earlier than expected
- Animals may have evolved 200 million years earlier than we thought
- Bats may have first evolved in Europe 65 million years ago
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