Showing posts with label ancient history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ancient history. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Fossilized octopus?

Scientists looking at rocks spend most of their time looking for old fossils of bony creatures like dinosaurs and fish. Bones tend to decay a lot slower so it makes sense that they would last longer based on most evolutionary theories that the bones were buried slowly over some period of time and eventually fossilized.

Now they've found a set of octopi. An octopus has no bones and decays into a slimy mass within days if it isn't eaten by scavengers. So these fossilized octopi must have been buried quickly. Why, even their suckers are visible and they look very similar to modern octopi today. Amazing.

How could this have occurred?

Friday, February 20, 2009

Or maybe not

As these "discoveries" tend to go, it looks like "Atlantis" may not exist where someone thought it did after all.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

The lost city of Atlantis?

Now this is just weird. It looks like a city at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean. Someone was browsing on Google Ocean and found this interesting site that no one else ever saw before.