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95M-Year-Old Octopus Fossils Discovered
mmmscience writes "A new study published in Paleontology is a truly terrific find. Not only did a group of European scientists find a fossilized octopus, they found five complete fossils that show all eight legs in great detail, including a ghost of the characteristic suckers. The discovery of the 95-million-year-old specimens was made in Lebanon. 'What is truly astonishing to the scientists is how similar these ancient creatures are to their modern-day counterparts. Dirk Fuchs, lead author on the study stated, "These things are 95 million years old, yet one of the fossils is almost indistinguishable from living species."'"
Dirk Fuchs, lead author on the study stated
How to pronounce his name? Anyone?
Apparently the octopus is the pinnacle of evolution! I for one welcome our new multipodal overlords!
Stop! Dremel time!
These things are 95 million years old, yet one of the fossils is almost indistinguishable from living species.
It doesn't evolve for 95 million years? It could have been a government octopus.
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... and the lead author's name is "Dick Fuchs"??? Am I the only one to see the irony here?
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Ramen!
According to the Second Holy Doctrine of the FSM, animals that are tasty with pasta were allowed to remain unevolved. Untasty animals are in the process of being intelligently evolved by touches of His Noodly Appendage until they assume a tasty form. Thus we can reconcile the evidence of evolution with the wisdom of the FSM.
Such early examples of perfect tastiness with pasta should be eaten with reverence for the wise benevolence of His Noodliness's early omnipotence. Rejoice in your Polpi e Calamari Fettucine, for it is given by the grace of He of the Tangled Forkful.
Ramen.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
It's identical to a living octopus because that's how it was created!
is actually really easy and has only two really simple rules:
How can you beat that? If you can hear it, you can spell it, and if you can spell it you can speak it. I am fluent in German, although it is a foreign language for me. I never make a spelling mistake in German, but in English, my native language, I am error prone.
And folks wonder why they can build such great cars.
And you can build great sentences, with the same word six times in a row:
"Wenn hinter Fliegen Fliegen fleigen, Fliegen fliegen Fliegen nach." (When flies fly behind flies, flies fly after flies)
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
These things are 95 million years old, yet one of the fossils is almost indistinguishable from living species.
Except, you know, for the fact that one is a rock and the other can only imitate the appearance of a rock.
More? I heard it was only 47%.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Thank you, that does make a lot of sense. I vote we replace car analogies with submarine analogies.
Maybe Octopii are the apogee of biological advancement, and all species, despite genetic drift and mutation, all end up evolving into Octopii.
It will sure come in handy for multi-tasking (think circular desks!), but then again, all those Octopii species seem to have given up on technology.