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Giant, Kraken-Like Octopuses Once Stalked Their Prey in Cretaceous Seas

Long before Megalodon ruled the seas, something just as unsettling may have lurked in the depths – giant octopuses the size of whales.

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Jaw fossils suggest a 60-foot octopus was the ‘kraken’ of the Cretaceous

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This 62-Foot ‘Kraken’ Octopus Terrorized Cretaceous Seas

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Meet the 19-metre octopus that prowled the ancient seas

Giant octopuses may have ruled the ancient oceans 100 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the land, according to new research.

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Monstrous octopus terrorized seas off B.C. in Age of Dinosaurs, study suggests

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Giant, 60-foot octopuses were apex predators 100 million years ago, fossil discovery shows

62-foot ‘kraken-like’ octopus identified as ‘top-tier predator’ 100M years ago — with powerful, bone-crushing bite: scientists

Indeed, at 62-feet-long, this colossal octopus could grow up to six feet longer than the mighty mosasaur, a predatory marine reptile that has long been considered the oceanic alpha-dog in the late Cretaceous between 100 and 60 million years ago.

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Monstrous octopus terrorized seas off BC in age of dinosaurs, study suggests

Whale-sized, monstrous octopuses prowled the seas during the Age of Dinosaurs, snatching prey with their huge tentacles and crunching them with powerful jaws, fossils from B.C. and Japan suggest.

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'Cretaceous Kraken' prowled the seas during the age of dinosaurs

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuters) - The Kraken is a huge tentacled sea monster from Norse folklore that drags ships and sailors down into the deep. During the age of dinosaurs, new research shows,

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The kraken was real: scientists discover a 100-million-year-old carnivorous octopus the size of an articulated bus

A study describes two species with powerful beaks, and possibly intelligent, that hunted in the Cretaceous seas