the elder gods

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• rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  From the middle Jurassic around 196 million years ago, putting it smack in the middle of the age of dinosaurs.

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteroctopus

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pohlsepia

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    • rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s not what is in the image you posted which is a protoceroctopus. Your link also states

      Although it was originally identified as an extinct cephalopod,[1] later studies denied that interpretation.

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• skrlet13@feddit.cl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Quote meme saying “I must Consult with the Elder Gods!” - Lord Raiden

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• Maroon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I thought soft-tissue didn’t fossilise. Cephalopods don’t have skeletons, then what exactly is getting fossilised here?

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  • AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There are different types of fossils, some of which apply to soft tissue:

    • Impression: A shallow imprint of a fossil organism that does not retain any organic material.

    • Compression: A fossil that has been crushed or flattened but retains some organic material, although it has been chemically altered.

    • Carbonization: A process that occurs during fossilization in which complex organic molecules are converted into a more stable carbon compound that generally has a dark brown color.

    This appears to be an impression fossil.

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    • Geodad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ll add that the entire organism can fossilize in an anoxic environment with rapid burial.

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  • KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Happened all the time. It just depends on the environment. Check out basically anything on the “Tully monster” if you want to know more.

    Tully monsters are actually even older than OPs fossil and we have no idea where they came from or where they went, from an evolutionary perspective.

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ok.

      Image

      I mean, there were weird things in the waters at the time and those grabber noses(?) were all the hype.

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    • BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I know those guys and know what happened to them

      They were my creations in Spore and went extinct after trying to sing their way into the heart of some purple, venomous, bipedal creature

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• But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Im still convinced they are not native to earth and just landed here on an asteroid

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• Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That's specifically octopi, right? Because there were cephalopods around that lived through the Great Dying.

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• TheTurner@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!

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• anzo@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is only a few centimeters big. There’s no way it could predate on dinosaurs… /s

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• Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s only it’s head. To understand the entire being, imagine it with a humanoid body attached.

  Like this

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• BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We’re their ant farm

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• confluence@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My Octopus Teacher

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