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New analyses of fossilized jaws reveal that massive, kraken-like octopuses once hunted alongside other marine predators.
The ancient cephalopod, Nanaimoteuthis haggarti, appears to have been an apex predator that rivaled mosasaurs to rule prehistoric seas.