New fossil studies reveal that giant octopuses up to 19 metres long and an injured ichthyosaur over 6.5 metres both thrived as apex predators millions of years ago. The octopus fossils, found in Japan ...

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Giant 19-meter-long kraken-like octopuses may have been the apex predators in the Late Cretaceous-era oceans, according to ...