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Squid Dominated the Oceans in the Late Cretaceous

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Feed Name: Schneier on Security

Date Published: 2025-07-11

Date Updated: 2026-04-19

Author: Bruce Schneier

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A research team used an advanced 3D digitization method to scan Late Cretaceous rocks from Japan, revealing 1,000 fossilized cephalopod beaks—263 belonging to squids—and identifying 40 previously unknown squid species, suggesting squids were far more abundant than bony fishes and ammonites at the time.

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