New squid-like species found in Wyoming fossils, 160 million years old

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorScientists in Wyoming have named a new squid-like species that lived a hundred and sixty million years ago, and it's the thickest belemnite ever recorded. Its guard was ten centimeters long and six wide.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentWyoming collectors call that part a squid butt, so officially, it's the chunkiest one anyone has found.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorIt's called Wyoteuthis linsterorum, and one specimen was dug up about thirty years ago by Burkhard Pohl, the founder of the Wyoming Dinosaur Center.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorIt then sat unstudied in the museum's collection, which I'd call a long, careful peer review.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThirty years?

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe second one came from collector Cliff Linster near Ten Sleep, who donated it in twenty nineteen.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHis son said he's honored to have an extinct giant squid bear the family name. I'm not crying, you are.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentOnly two are known, out of millions of belemnite fossils in Wyoming.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentIt sat in a folder nobody opened, and then it dropped as a surprise release.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThirty years on a shelf, and the first thing they did was name it after the other guy.