[Featured]: An incredible fossil vampire squid

[Hajar]

Greetings all, I haven't been here for a while, but mentioned TONMO in a talk yesterday, so thought to put a link here:

A couple of interesting fossils get shown, so hope you will enjoy it.

 

[tonmo]

Nice, will check it out, @Hajar - ..."the in-betweenies" ...good to see you and thanks for sharing!

 

[Architeuthoceras]

Very nice talk Hajar!! Thanks for posting it!!

 

[Hajar]

Nice, will check it out, @Hajar - ..."the in-betweenies" ...good to see you and thanks for sharing!

The funny thing is, I don't think I've ever used that word before in my life and probably never will again. It can happen in these kinds of unscripted talks that you look at the audience you've got and improvise what you think might work for them. Lots of fun.

 

[Iochroma]

Another one? Same one?

New species of ancient vampire squid unearthed in Luxembourg

A trio of paleontologists in Germany has found a fossilized vampire squid that they dated to 183 million years ago. In their paper published in the Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, Robert Weis, Ben Thuy and Dirk Fuchs describe where the fossil was found, its condition, and how it compares to...

phys.org

 

[Architeuthoceras]

Another one.