Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Mesozoic Assemblage Art: Giant Triassic Cephalopod












News bulletins tell us that yesterday at the Geological Society of America annual meeting in Minneapolis, there was a presentation suggesting an explanation for the weirdly geometrical patterns of ichthyosaur bones at a famous site in Nevada: an unseen giant cephalopod who would arrange the scraps from its giant meals according to patterns that pleased it.


Read the abstract of the talk, or one or the other among newsflashes.