Joel Kontinen
“A squid relative went fishing, but never got to eat its prey.” It probably got attacked by the Flood of Noah’s days that put an end to its ravages.
“This 200 million-year-old fossil was originally discovered in the 19th century, but a new analysis reveals that it's the oldest known example of a coleoid, or a class of cephalopods that includes octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, attacking prey.
That attack was vicious, said study lead researcher, Malcolm Hart, emeritus professor of micropaleontology at the University of Plymouth in England.”
The researchers named the creature Clarkeiteuthis montefiorei. The 40 centimeters squid long relative was eating a smaller herring-like fish, when something stopped what they were doing.
The study has been accepted by the Proceedings of the Geologists' Association and was presented May 6 as part of Sharing Geoscience Online.
Source:
Geggel , Laura. 2020. 200 million-year-old fossil shows oldest 'squid attack' on record. Live Science 5 May.
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