{"id":8248,"date":"2011-10-15T12:16:06","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T06:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/?p=8248"},"modified":"2012-11-16T13:29:05","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T07:29:05","slug":"was-the-kraken-a-real-animal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2011\/10\/was-the-kraken-a-real-animal\/","title":{"rendered":"WAS THE KRAKEN A REAL ANIMAL?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/monsters\/sea-monsters\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1762\" title=\"sea-monsters\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/sea-monsters.gif?resize=100%2C99\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/16470-kraken-sea-monster-lair-discovered.html\" target=\"_\">Live Science<\/a> has reported that a gargantuan beast, the likes of the mythological kraken, may have swum Earth&#8217;s ancient oceans, snagging what was thought to be the sea&#8217;s top predators &#8212; school bus-size ichthyosaurs with fearsome teeth!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The kraken, which would&#8217;ve been nearly 100-feet long, or twice the size of the colossal squid, <em>Mesonychoteuthis<\/em>, likely drowned or broke the necks of the ichthyosaurs before dragging the corpses to its lair.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/kraken-01.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3694\" title=\"kraken-01\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/kraken-01.jpg?resize=200%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/kraken-01.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/kraken-01.jpg?resize=280%2C420&amp;ssl=1 280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/kraken-01.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Evidence for this fearsome <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/monsters\/sea-monsters\/\" target=\"_\">SEA MONSTER <\/a>and its gruesome attacks comes from markings on the bones of the remains of nine 45-foot ichthyosaurs of the species Shonisaurus popularis, which lived during the Triassic, a period that lasted from 248 million to 206 million years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live Science has reported that a gargantuan beast, the likes of the mythological kraken, may have swum Earth&#8217;s ancient oceans, snagging what was thought to be the sea&#8217;s top predators &#8212; school bus-size ichthyosaurs with fearsome teeth!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2504,"featured_media":12027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[351,725,1121],"class_list":{"0":"post-8248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-giant-squid","9":"tag-kraken","10":"tag-news"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/kraken-021.jpg?fit=500%2C323&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10078,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8248\/revisions\/10078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}