Strange, Bone-Filled Lair: Proof the Kraken Existed? A paleontologist insists that a massive, octopus-like creature once terrorized the oceans–and turned the bones of its prey into a self-portrait. Paleontologist Mark McMenamin suggests that a fearsome multi-armed creature, like the creature known in folklore as the Kraken, was once the ocean’s fiercest predator. McMenamin claims the fossils found in Nevada’s Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park are those of the Kraken’s lair–and that the fossilized bones look like artfully arranged “self-portraits” of the Kraken itself.
It’s true that the remains of nine ichthyosaurs, each the size of a school bus, are indeed arranged in a “mysterious” pattern according to Science Daily. But a giant killer octopus? Fact: modern octopuses are known to leave piles of bones and shells in their dens. This led McMenamin to theorize that a giant octopus, like the Kraken, captured and killed the ichthyosaurs. The broken ribs and twisted necks on the fossils also suggest that some sort of cephalopod (octopus) in the Triassic was responsible for the deaths.
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