Origin and radiation of squids revealed by digital fossil-mining

From Science Magazine.

Using an innovative “digital fossil-mining” approach, researchers in Science uncovered hundreds of previously hidden fossil squid beaks, revealing a record that squids originated and became ecologically dominant roughly 100 million years ago—well before the end-Cretaceous extinction.

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FOOTAGE CREDIT: IKEGAMI ET AL./SCIENCE

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