"shark vs octopus."

[metalman]

Giant kraken lair discovered?

 

[the_leander]

Given the highly improbable chance of tissue imprints being discovered (based on how many times skin textures have been fossilised) the only thing that would prove their suggestion would be the finding of a cephalopod beak.

Was very interesting though, thanks for sharing.

 

[metalman]

Given the highly improbable chance of tissue imprints being discovered (based on how many times skin textures have been fossilised) the only thing that would prove their suggestion would be the finding of a cephalopod beak.

How the ichthyosaurs died is the clue to the predator

Among the evidences of the kraken attacks are many more ribs broken in the shonisaur fossils than would seem accidental and the twisted necks of the ichthyosaurs. "It was either drowning them or breaking their necks."

and crushing their rib cages by constriction

 

[the_leander]

How the ichthyosaurs died is the clue to the predator

I get that, but to have a beak or some other fossilised remains would be proof positive.

 

[ilwrath]

Ars Technica seems much less impressed with this story....

We have a serious problem with science journalism. A big one, in fact, and today that problem takes the form of a giant, prehistoric squid with tentacles so formidable that it has sucked the brains right out of staff writers’ heads.

Ouch!