{"id":2886,"date":"2011-10-15T08:10:39","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T14:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2011-10-15T08:10:39","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T14:10:39","slug":"strange-bone-filled-lair-proof-the-kraken-existed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/?p=2886","title":{"rendered":"Strange, Bone-Filled Lair:  Proof the Kraken Existed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Strange, Bone-Filled Lair:\u00a0 Proof the Kraken Existed? <\/strong>A  paleontologist insists that a massive, octopus-like creature once  terrorized the oceans&#8211;and turned the bones of its prey into a  self-portrait.\u00a0 Paleontologist Mark McMenamin suggests that a fearsome  multi-armed creature, like the creature known in folklore as the Kraken,  was once the ocean&#8217;s fiercest predator.\u00a0 McMenamin claims the fossils  found in Nevada&#8217;s Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park are those of the  Kraken&#8217;s lair&#8211;and that the fossilized bones look like artfully arranged  &#8220;self-portraits&#8221; of the Kraken itself.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s true that the remains of nine ichthyosaurs, each the size of a  school bus, are indeed arranged in a &#8220;mysterious&#8221; pattern according to <em>Science Daily. <\/em>But  a giant killer octopus?\u00a0 Fact:\u00a0 modern octopuses are known to leave  piles of bones and shells in their dens.\u00a0 This led McMenamin to theorize  that a giant octopus, like the Kraken, captured and killed the  ichthyosaurs.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strange, Bone-Filled Lair:\u00a0 Proof the Kraken Existed? A paleontologist insists that a massive, octopus-like creature once terrorized the oceans&#8211;and turned the bones of its prey into a self-portrait.\u00a0 Paleontologist Mark McMenamin suggests that a fearsome multi-armed creature, like the creature known in folklore as the Kraken, was once the ocean&#8217;s fiercest predator.\u00a0 McMenamin claims the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general_news","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2887,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions\/2887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}