Keuppia levante is one of three newly-discovered species of 95 million-year-old octopuses. Octopus fossils are among the rarest and unlikeliest of fossils.
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2 posted on
03/22/2009 9:37:25 AM PDT by
mylife
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That could be a modern painting hanging in a gallery somewhere. ... way cool
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They could be mistaken.
That might just be Casper the Fossilized Ghost.
4 posted on
03/22/2009 9:38:30 AM PDT by
George Smiley
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5 posted on
03/22/2009 9:40:45 AM PDT by
bmwcyle
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oh man, now they’ve pissed off the Intergalactic Federation of Octopuses for violation of a sacred king, Octopus Maximus. man.. we gonna be doused in ink.
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That is absolutely incredible.
10 posted on
03/22/2009 9:52:14 AM PDT by
mysterio
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can they proove its ONLY 95,000,000,000,000,000,000 etc years old..? I found a worm in a can that was 8 days old...and I can proove it.... I put it there.
great fossil find indeed, but I doubt the numbers..
13 posted on
03/22/2009 10:09:51 AM PDT by
rusureitflies?
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I hate octopuses...especially 95 million-year-old octopuses.
FMCDH(BITS)
14 posted on
03/22/2009 10:15:19 AM PDT by
nothingnew
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95 million years from now they are going to find this.
17 posted on
03/22/2009 10:25:53 AM PDT by
Moonman62
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That is not dead which can eternal lie. And these fools dug it up....
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>> ‘”These things are 95 million years old, yet one of the fossils is almost indistinguishable from living species,” Fuchs said.’
Think of it as “evolution inaction.”
22 posted on
03/22/2009 12:50:51 PM PDT by
DoorGunner
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25 posted on
03/22/2009 4:31:52 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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Ooooo, LOOK! It’s a baby C’thulu!
28 posted on
03/22/2009 5:51:30 PM PDT by
ApplegateRanch
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