File this one under "just plain weird."
Seems that paleontologists have recently turned up some pretty strange fossils - bones of a kind of ichthyosaur called Shonisaurus popularis have been found in strange arrangements. Specifically, vertebrae from several different animals have been found fossilized into a linear pattern. What's going on here?
We don't know, but Mark McMenamin thinks he has a clue. Apparently, octopuses have been known to do the same thing with fish bones - they take the vertebrae and arrange them so that they look like octopus suckers. Are these fossils evidence of some ancient molluscan self-portrait? What do you think?
Read more here: Triassic 'Kraken' may have created self-portrait via tgdaily.com
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