This 160-Million-Year-Old “Squid” Fossil Is Unlike Anything Scientists Have Seen

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Wyoteuthis LinsterorumTwo rare Wyoming fossils have revealed the chunkiest squid relative ever discovered, a Jurassic animal whose family was thought to have vanished millions of years earlier. Researchers have identified Wyoteuthis linsterorum, a new species of belemnite that lived about 160 million years ago. These extinct relatives of squid and octopuses usually left behind slender, bullet-shaped [...]
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