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Cretaceous Octopuses Were Kraken-Like Giants That Reached Up To 19 Meters And May Have Feasted On MosasaursAn artist's impression of Nanaimoteuthis haggarti, the largest octopus ever found, larger than the mosasaurs with which it shared the Cretaceous oceans.

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Cretaceous Octopuses Were Kraken-Like Giants That Reached Up To 19 Meters And May Have Feasted On MosasaursAn artist's impression of Nanaimoteuthis haggarti, the largest octopus ever found, larger than the mosasaurs with which it shared the Cretaceous oceans.
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Cretaceous Octopuses Were Kraken-Like Giants That Reached Up To 19 Meters And May Have Feasted On Mosasaurs

clock-iconApril 23, 2026

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First-Ever Lariosaurus With Preserved Skin Is One Of The Most Complete Sea Monsters We’ve Ever FoundLariosaurus valceresii, (A) MCSN 8713 as preserved, dorsal view; (B) 3D reconstruction of the body, based on the skin profile.

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First-Ever Lariosaurus With Preserved Skin Is One Of The Most Complete Sea Monsters We’ve Ever FoundLariosaurus valceresii, (A) MCSN 8713 as preserved, dorsal view; (B) 3D reconstruction of the body, based on the skin profile.
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First-Ever Lariosaurus With Preserved Skin Is One Of The Most Complete Sea Monsters We’ve Ever Found

clock-iconSeptember 25, 2025
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Exceptional 183-Million-Year-Old Fossil With Soft Tissues Intact Is New Species Of Giant Marine Reptilelife reconstruction of Plesionectes longicollum

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Exceptional 183-Million-Year-Old Fossil With Soft Tissues Intact Is New Species Of Giant Marine Reptilelife reconstruction of Plesionectes longicollum
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Exceptional 183-Million-Year-Old Fossil With Soft Tissues Intact Is New Species Of Giant Marine Reptile

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Fossil Mystery Reveals New Species Of 85-Million-Year-Old Sea Monster, And It’s “Very Odd”Two individuals of Traskasaura sandrae hunt the ammonite Pachydiscus in the northern Pacific during the Late Cretaceous. Traskasaura sandrae, named today in the Journal of Systematic Paleontology, was declared the Provincial Fossil of British Columbia in 2023

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Fossil Mystery Reveals New Species Of 85-Million-Year-Old Sea Monster, And It’s “Very Odd”Two individuals of Traskasaura sandrae hunt the ammonite Pachydiscus in the northern Pacific during the Late Cretaceous. Traskasaura sandrae, named today in the Journal of Systematic Paleontology, was declared the Provincial Fossil of British Columbia in 2023
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Fossil Mystery Reveals New Species Of 85-Million-Year-Old Sea Monster, And It’s “Very Odd”

clock-iconMay 23, 2025
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"Exceptionally Rare" 183-Million-Year-Old Plesiosaur Was Covered In Mosaic Of Skin And ScalesJurassic plesiosaur skeleton with preserved skin and scales

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"Exceptionally Rare" 183-Million-Year-Old Plesiosaur Was Covered In Mosaic Of Skin And ScalesJurassic plesiosaur skeleton with preserved skin and scales
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"Exceptionally Rare" 183-Million-Year-Old Plesiosaur Was Covered In Mosaic Of Skin And Scales

clock-iconFebruary 10, 2025
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Stunning Opalized Plesiosaur Reveals New Fish Species Thanks To Fossilized Stomach Contentseric plesiosaur

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Stunning Opalized Plesiosaur Reveals New Fish Species Thanks To Fossilized Stomach Contentseric plesiosaur
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Stunning Opalized Plesiosaur Reveals New Fish Species Thanks To Fossilized Stomach Contents

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Freshwater Plesiosaur Discovery Is Amazing But Does Not Make Nessie “Plausible”Moving into freshwater in Morocco's Kem Kem had advantages for pleseosaurs, but there was spinosaurus to deal with

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Freshwater Plesiosaur Discovery Is Amazing But Does Not Make Nessie “Plausible”Moving into freshwater in Morocco's Kem Kem had advantages for pleseosaurs, but there was spinosaurus to deal with
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Freshwater Plesiosaur Discovery Is Amazing But Does Not Make Nessie “Plausible”

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New Species Of Pliosaur Discovered In Russiaarticle image

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New Species Of Pliosaur Discovered In Russiaarticle image
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New Species Of Pliosaur Discovered In Russia

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How Plesiosaurs And Ichthyosaurs Burst Onto The Scenearticle image

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How Plesiosaurs And Ichthyosaurs Burst Onto The Scenearticle image
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How Plesiosaurs And Ichthyosaurs Burst Onto The Scene

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Treasure Trove Of Dinosaur Fossils Found In Antarcticaarticle image

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Treasure Trove Of Dinosaur Fossils Found In Antarcticaarticle image
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Treasure Trove Of Dinosaur Fossils Found In Antarctica

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Ancient Long-Necked Marine Reptile Discovered in Alaskaarticle image

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Ancient Long-Necked Marine Reptile Discovered in Alaskaarticle image
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Ancient Long-Necked Marine Reptile Discovered in Alaska

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