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Vampire squid ancestor died in ‘eternal embrace’ with its dinner – Livescience.com
The Jurassic predator and prey suffocated together underwater.
About 180 million years ago, an eight-armed predator seized its underwater prey another eight-armed beastie and began to nibble on it, until disaster struck and they both died from suffocation, a new study finds.
The shale slab holding this duo’s fossilized remains preserved imprints of their soft tissues in “exceptional” detail, the researchers wrote in the study, published online March 16 in the Swiss Journal of Palaeontology
. An analysis of the slab reveals that their last moments together ended…
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