Largest Squid relative in the fossil record

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Largest Squid relative in the fossil record

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Belemnites were hyperabundant in the Mesozoic, but unfortunately good fossils of them have been few and far in between. Now, new fossils from France let researchers understand their anatomy better, and showing researchers just how large, the largest could have become.
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@origaminosferatu3357 2 ай бұрын

Being dragged into the water and eaten alive by a hundred massive squid was not a new fear I needed to unlock but thanks anyway.

@pattheplanter 2 ай бұрын

My existing policy of staying at least 10 metres away from the sea should be sufficient for this nightmare as well.

@Sepi-chu_loves_moths 2 ай бұрын

It's only about 2 metres long, but the Humboldt squid has been reported to drag divers underwater with the intent to drown still alive today:D

@beastmaster0934 2 ай бұрын

@@Sepi-chu_loves_moths And it’s as he said, they swarm people after the person is pulled under.

@Sepi-chu_loves_moths 2 ай бұрын

@beastmaster0934 yeah, I did forget to say they only come to the surface at night in groups of hundreds and occasionally thousands :3

@gattycroc8073 2 ай бұрын

I really hope Belemnites get more attention in media like their fellow cephalopods the Ammonites.

@GustavSvard 2 ай бұрын

TIL that squid DO attack boats and eat people. It's not just tall tales from sailors of old. Yes, the squid grew larger in the telling over the years, but that's just humans being storytellers.

@RaptorChatter 2 ай бұрын

To be entirely clear, it's more that they grab the tackle for fishing, and then the fisherman gets pulled over. And the boats are small like 15 foot open topped skiffs

@invisiblejaguar1 2 ай бұрын

What's scarier than a kraken? A lot of small krakens that nibble you to death...

@carolynallisee2463 2 ай бұрын

When I was a child, we often unearthed bits of belemnite in our back garden. I live in central England, and our garden sits directly atop the Oxford Clay- in fact, there used to be a brick factory on the edge of town. The funny thing is that whilst we found plenty of belemnites, we didn't find even a single ammonite fossil- plenty of brachiopod shells, the sort that's called 'giant's toe nails' but no ammonites. It suggests that in this bit of the Jurassic archipelago sea, there was a distinct partitioning of the two types of ancient cephalopod.

@TheaSvendsen 2 ай бұрын

Wow, I wish I had a back garden like that where fossils could be found. That must have been so awesome!

@patreekotime4578 2 ай бұрын

At the other ends of the scale... if the fossils from belemnites only represent about 1/3 of the length of the animal... and most of the ones found are tiny... that suggests lots of iddy-bitty little belemnite squiddos everywhere. Cool!

@janetchennault4385 2 ай бұрын

Olive oil, a little garlic. Yum

@patreekotime4578 2 ай бұрын

@@janetchennault4385 just dont choke on that cone!

@janetchennault4385 2 ай бұрын

@@patreekotime4578 Woops! [Chough, cough]

@patreekotime4578 2 ай бұрын

@@janetchennault4385 Next time just remember the saying: "Squishy squid, swallow pen, Belemnite, think again!"

@Vulcano7965 28 күн бұрын

I recently found a likely belemnite rostrum just mm in size! A tiny baby!

@grantboardman7880 2 ай бұрын

There were some great cephalopod taphonomy talks at TaphCon...wish I could remember what year that was -or- find the abstract volume.

@TheaSvendsen 2 ай бұрын

I love how you wear an ammonite shirt just for the occasion of this video :) But also, I really want a shirt like that. Where did you get it? Regarding the video (which I enjoyed immensely, like always), I have seen a few documentaries about the Humboldt squid and immediately went “oh, those guys are crazy strong and dangerous!” Before you even said anything, lol. Cephalopods are just such fascinating creatures! Thank you for keeping me up to date on new scientific discoveries and research.

@Eloraurora 2 ай бұрын

All for paper models! Computers are good for complexity and reproducibility, but I feel like they can sometimes function as a barrier to entry.

@RaptorChatter 2 ай бұрын

If you didn't code it in R is it really science? Yes yes it can be.

@danielsutton2290 2 ай бұрын

Ezekiel, from a fellow Arizonan, I think you really should get going on advanced schooling and start getting published. You have a brilliant skill in paleontology and are exceptionally well-informed. You put great context on these videos helping me to learn tons. I watch them weekly at least

@RaptorChatter 2 ай бұрын

Hopefully I'll get word about grad school on Thursday!

@Erikuzuma 2 ай бұрын

"Cephalopods kinda suck-" Me: "NO U >: (" "... in the fossil record" Me: "Oh yeah that's true."

@merobo5066 Ай бұрын

Nice video, very minor correction, the conversion of meters to feet seems to be off for Megateuthis' length. As you correctly said earlier in the video, 1 foot is about 30cm, meaning that 9 feet are roughly 2.7m and therefore less and not more than 3 meters

@rhoff523 Ай бұрын

As always your presentations are the best of any paleo channel, from a scientific point of view. Thank you. PS do not tell a certain former president about the Humboldt squid and fishermen, one more thing he would connect to electric batteries and sinking boats!

@joeshmoe8345 2 ай бұрын

You said octopi so I'll share a fact: the final i is used to make plurals in latin, but octopus is greek! So octopi makes no sense. In greek the plural is octopodes, in English you can just say octopuses. You're welcome :)

@pattheplanter 2 ай бұрын

In fact, we took octopus from modern scientific Latin soon after the invention of the name, not directly from Greek. The plural form octopi has been used for over 200 years in English, it is a valid form now. Oktapous ὀκτάπους and oktopous ὀκτώπους were Greek but we stole them and changed the spelling to Latinise them. They are ours now and we can do what we want with them. Irregular plurals happen in English. Do you insist that peas is singular and peasen/peeses the plural?

@RaptorChatter 2 ай бұрын

I'm aware of this, but also language changes. You say the instead of þe. For sake of simplicity I went with the more common pronunciation. It's the same as sephalopods. Technically from the Greek it should be kephalopods when pronounced, but I speak American not British English. Just another minute detail in how diverse accents and language can be!

@pattheplanter 2 ай бұрын

@@RaptorChatter We got cephalopod through the French, not Latin or Greek. The scientific Latin was made up from two Greek words but that means nothing for pronunciation. Another case of overcompensation by pedants. I have never heard a British person say kephalopod. Only an insanely dedicated (and misinformed) classicist would say this was a wideo about kephalopods.

@malcaniscsm5184 2 ай бұрын

@@pattheplanter The best kind of correct!

@danielsutton2290 2 ай бұрын

“Hi. Mrs O’Callaghan? Great. Thank you for calling me back. Yes, I can’t agree with you more. I do think your son should start publishing in the field of paleontology. He’s brilliant and needs to make the O’Callaghan name proud. Especially displayed by this video-he needs to get Kraken”