You knew I’d have to read an article titled Earliest octopuses were giant top predators in Cretaceous oceans. How cool is that? And then they’ve illustrated it with some very appealing …

One the key mechanisms science stays healthy is skepticism. This article throws some over a recent sensational paper published on Science.

  • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Good to see push-back like this, a healthy sign of the general scientific process at work.

    There are indeed some pretty famous species reconstructed with the barest of remaining material (“Gigantopithecus,” i.e. 10ft-tall orangutans) come to mind, altho hypothesizing their behavior seems like quite the stretcharoo without more evidence…