Posts Tagged ‘Jurassic Squid’

Acanthoteuthis: Jurassic Squid Were Speedy Swimmers

WFS,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev,World Fossil Society Three extremely rare fossil specimens of an extinct squidlike animal provide new evidence of the 10-armed creature’s body structure and suggest that it may have been a swift swimmer, a new study finds.  The fossils represent Acanthoteuthis, a genus of squid relatives that lived during the Jurassic period and measured between 9.8 and 15.7 inches […]