A kraken-like octopus the size of a lorry prowled Earth’s oceans back when dinosaurs ruled the land, new fossil discoveries have suggested.
Scientists have believed that sharks and giant marine reptiles dominated the seas during the Cretaceous era, such as 11-metre-long mosasaurs and 12-metre-long plesiosaurs. But new fossils suggest that early octopuses could have been just as big, with one potentially measuring 19 metres in length – the same size as a lorry, or two double-decker buses.
