Rare fossil octopuses found: 95 million-year-old

msnbc ^ | March. 18, 2009

[Caesar Soze]

That is not dead which can eternal lie. And these fools dug it up....

[DoorGunner]

>> ‘”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.”

[Nipplemancer]

do you really want to sit through two or three periods with an octopus in your pocket?

[SunkenCiv]

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[JoeProBono]

Proteroctopus ribeti ( Octopus ) Age: Middle Jurassic Location: Ardeche, France

[Sioux-san]

I saw my first octopus at the Seaquarium in Seattle aabout 25 years ago. Very sad — I am still haunted by it. There was a large tank in the middle of a walkway and this smallish octopus (about 2’) was all huddled up in the corner near the top of the aquarium. One of the employees walked by, and I commented that the octopus looked depressed. I was told that I was right - the octopus had just lost her baby and was quite sad and that octopus are very intellgent creatures. That’s when I decided I hated all these spectacles set up for the viewers “eduation” and gawking.

[ApplegateRanch]

Ooooo, LOOK! It’s a baby C’thulu!

[Fred Nerks]

described as a 'cambrian jellyfish' this image reminds me more of the Hiroshima Shadows than a fossil.

[SunkenCiv]

I’d like to see the looks on their faces when they discover the fossil of the peanut butter fish.

[socialismisinsidious]

The female octopus cares for her eggs but once they hatch they are on their own. She doesn't care for the babies. She can lay up to a million eggs at once so her being upset b/c she had "lost her baby" is doubtful. The reality is most of her "babies" will be lost b/c most will not live to adult hood. I even question that she had laid eggs while in captivity...not likely.

You no longer need to be haunted.

[Sioux-san]

Well, after all these years, now I can rest better. Is it possible that they just put a younger octopus in the same tank and she adopted it?

[ReagansShinyHair]

Well, they die pretty soon after laying their eggs, don’t they? Maybe it was dying instead of depressed. Or depressed about dying.