Scientists find the fattest belemnite ever, a barrel-shaped Jurassic…

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorScientists have identified the fattest belemnite ever found, a barrel-shaped squid relative that lived in the seas of Wyoming about one hundred sixty million years ago, ScienceDaily reports.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorBarrel-shaped. Wyoming had an ocean, and the best thing in it was a barrel.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe usual ones are bullet-shaped, five to ten centimeters long and one to two across.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThis one is ten centimeters long and up to six wide.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSix wide.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA Wyoming paleontologist says people there nickname these fossils squid butts. And this one still stuck out like a sore thumb, in his words.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo it wasn't the biggest fossil, it was the widest.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo the whole family wasn't extinct. It was just standing behind this one, and nobody could see past him.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe lead researcher said he was deeply surprised. He studies this group for a living.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorTwo feet of predator, Hank, possibly hunting smaller squid animals, and only two specimens exist. If one wanders off a display, we have no backup.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorImagine the paperwork.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorBoth are on display at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center in Thermopolis, Dale. They're fossils, so they're pretty much stuck there.