What Are Apex Predators

Giant octopuses were the ocean's apex predators

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60-foot octopus prowled seas as apex predator during age of dinosaurs, fossilized jaws show

The top predator prowling the seas during the age of the dinosaurs 100 million years ago may have been the octopus.

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Giant, 60-foot octopuses were apex predators 100 million years ago, fossil discovery shows

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Giant octopuses were the ocean's apex predators 100 million years ago

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Scientists just discovered a 60-foot-long, kraken-like octopus

The discovery, using novel techniques to analyze fossilized jaws, details how colossal octopuses hunted the Late Cretaceous depths, competing with apex predators.

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A real-life Kraken stalked the seas of the late Cretaceous

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Meet the 19-meter Cretaceous kraken that swam with mosasaurs

Researchers have uncovered the fossilized remains of ancient, finned octopuses that likely reached lengths of up to 19 meters.

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Giant octopuses may have ruled the oceans 100 million years ago

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'Cretaceous Kraken' prowled the seas during the age of dinosaurs

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Great White Sharks Are Being Pushed to Their 'Physiological Limits' by Warming Oceans, Study Finds

Researchers around the world are concerned about the declining ecosystems and food sources for the apex predator

62-foot ‘kraken-like’ octopus identified as ‘top-tier predator’ 100M years ago — with powerful, bone-crushing bite: scientists

Indeed, at 62-feet-long, this colossal octopus could grow up to six feet longer than the mighty mosasaur, a predatory marine reptile that has long been considered the oceanic alpha-dog in the late Cretaceous between 100 and 60 million years ago.

Jaw fossils suggest a 60-foot octopus was the ‘kraken’ of the Cretaceous

The ancient cephalopod, Nanaimoteuthis haggarti, appears to have been an apex predator that rivaled mosasaurs to rule prehistoric seas.