"Kraken Theory Resurfaces With New 'Evidence'" Topic

"Deep under the waves of a long lost ocean there were whale-sized marine reptiles that, it's theorized, might have been attacked and eaten by a giant kraken. Meanwhile, a newly discovered giant scavenger from the same time may have made its living picking over the leftovers.

The idea of a kraken was originally proposed a couple of years ago at the meeting of the Geological Society of America by Mount Holyoke College paleontologist Mark McMenamin. Now he has returned to the annual meeting with what he believes is more evidence of the kraken, including what could be the tip of its tooth-like beak, another example of a potential kraken murder case, and the earliest-known fossil of a scavenger crustacean that is today among those found devouring whale carcasses in the ocean depths.

The initial evidence for the kraken was very indirect: McMenamin found in 2011 signs that the remains of 14-meter (45-foot) ichthyosaurs at Nevada's Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park were arranged in patterns that resembled the work of a modern-day octopus -- which are known to fiddle and arrange bones as well as attack and kill sharks. He also asserted then, as now, that the Nevada rocks in which the ichthyosaurs were found are incorrectly interpreted as being made from shallow ocean sediments, when they are actually from much much deeper…"
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I certainly would not say Professor McMenamin's theory is impossible, it just seems highly unlikely that any fossilized remains will ever be found to confirm it. On the positive side of the coin, we know there were enormous cephalopods before the Mesozoic because at that time they had shells, and we know there are colossal squids living today, so it seems possible that giant octopus or squid-like creatures could have been living in the Mesozoic seas and preying upon (and being preyed upon by) marine reptiles.