'Kraken' octopus that lived at the time of the dinosaurs was a 62-foot-long apex predator of the ocean

submitted by solo to palaeontology 32 points | 2 comments https://www.livescience.com/animals/octopuses/kraken-octopus-that-lived-at-the-time-of-the-dinosaurs-was-a-62-foot-long-apex-predator-of-the-ocean A close inspection of 27 fossil jaws from finned octopuses challenge the longstanding belief that the apex oceanic predators of the Cretaceous were all vertebrates.