And the fisherman collects, yes, they collect the sounds from their nest above

[sovay]

I am frantically cleaning in expectation of niece, but my mother just called to let me know of the fossil discovery of octopods larger than a school bus. It feels apropros that my niece requested sushi for dinner. It makes me almost as happy as the news itself that everyone involved seems to have thought instantly of kraken.

Comments

[moon_custafer]

"I wasn't expecting any octopus of this magnitude at all," says Fernando Ángel Fernández-Álvarez, a zoologist at the Spanish Institute of Oceanography who wasn't involved in the study.

I’m just going to go around dropping that comment from now on, on any endeavours that I’m not involved in.

[sovay]

I’m just going to go around dropping that comment from now on, on any endeavours that I’m not involved in.

I approve of this linguistic development.

[sabotabby]

Relevant to my interests.

[sovay]

Relevant to my interests.

Yay!

[theseatheseatheopensea]

It makes me almost as happy as the news itself that everyone involved seems to have thought instantly of kraken.

:D I saw kraken mentions in at least three local newspapers!

[sovay]

I saw kraken mentions in at least three local newspapers!

That's so cool!

[ethelmay]

GET KRAKEN!

[sovay]

GET KRAKEN!

And they did!

[radiantfracture]

Oddly thrilling knowledge, thank you.

[sovay]

Oddly thrilling knowledge, thank you.

I'm so glad.

[umadoshi]

I hope you have a wonderful visit! <3

[sovay]

I hope you have a wonderful visit!

Thank you! The sushi was a good start.

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, wow! That is quite some octopod!!

Also I hope that you have a good time with your niece. <3

[sovay]

Oh, wow! That is quite some octopod!!

Bigger than a mosasaur!

Also I hope that you have a good time with your niece.

Thank you!

*hugs*

[choco_frosh]

Bigger than a mosasaur!

SO APPARENTLY one of the bio. professors at my college (after my time) had a ...hypothesis... that certain weird deposits of mosasaur fossils were, IN FACT, the product of some undiscovered giant mesozoic cephalopod first (1) eating them, and then (2) making macaroni art with their bones. So he is probably THRILLED about all this.

[sovay]

a ...hypothesis... that certain weird deposits of mosasaur fossils were, IN FACT, the product of some undiscovered giant mesozoic cephalopod first (1) eating them, and then (2) making macaroni art with their bones. So he is probably THRILLED about all this.

I'm thrilled to know about his hypothesis!

[ranalore]

the fossil discovery of octopods larger than a school bus.

Cap'n, there be kraaken here.

[sovay]

Cap'n, there be kraaken here.

That horizon has a lot of tentacles.

[asakiyume]

How wonderful—-very happy to know there were such creatures (and who knows? They keep finding some pretty amazing creatures still living, just out of sight.

[sovay]

How wonderful—-very happy to know there were such creatures (and who knows? They keep finding some pretty amazing creatures still living, just out of sight.

I love the idea of the Cretaceous octopus still moving tectonically in the deep sea.