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The curious arrangement of giant bones in a prehistoric ocean graveyard has caused one paleontologist to propose the existence of a giant squid-like kraken that preyed on bus-size "sea monsters."


Other scientists, though, say the fossils can easily be explained without resorting to theories based on kraken—mythological sea monsters perhaps based on centuries-old sightings of giant squid or octopuses.

The fossils in question are about 350 miles (560 kilometers) northwest of Las Vegas, in Nevada's Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park—a seafloor at the time the bones were deposited, some 200 million years ago. (See related pictures: "'Sea Monster' Graveyard Found in the Arctic.")

The fossils are circular vertebral discs, or backbones, that once belonged to Shonisaurus popularis, a species of dinosaur-age marine reptiles called ichthyosaurs.

Based on the sizes of the bones, scientists estimate the ichthyosaurs grew to lengths of 49 feet (15 meters) or longer.

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Kraken Self-Portrait?

During a recent family trip to the fossil site, Mark McMenamin, a paleontologist at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, noticed that some of the vertebrate fossils appeared to be neatly lined up into double rows.

Struck by the orderly arrangement of the bones, McMenamin came up with a remarkable idea for how they came to be that way, which he presented at a Geological Society of America meeting in Minnesota on Monday.

McMenamin's hypothesis: that a giant squid or octopus hunted and preyed on the ichthyosaurs and then arranged their bones in double-line patterns to purposely resemble the pattern of sucker discs on the predator's tentacles.

According to a press release detailing McMenamin's hypothesis—titled "Giant Kraken Lair Discovered"— "the vertebral disc 'pavement' seen at the state park may represent the earliest known self portrait."

"I think that these things were captured by the kraken and taken to the midden and the cephalopod would take them apart," McMenamin—who didn't respond to a request for an interview Tuesday—said in the statement.

The kraken, he said, "was either drowning [the ichythosaurs] or breaking their necks."

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Explanation Doesn’t Require an Artistic Kraken?

Paul "P.Z." Myers is an evolutionary biologist at the University of Minnesota Morris and the author of the Pharyngula science blog. (Pharyngula is part of ScienceBlogs, a network partially funded by the National Geographic Society, which owns National Geographic News.)

Myers called McMenamin's hypothesis a "bizarre and miraculous story" and said his evidence is "weirdly circumstantial."

The fossil arrangement "is not surprising," Myers said. "It doesn't take an artist octopus to do it."

One could imagine, Myers said, that as ichthyosaurs died and their bodies rotted, their vertebral discs fell apart.

The bones "are taller than they are wide, so they're just going to flop over to one side or the other and can just happen to fall into two parallel rows," which then get preserved as fossils, he said.

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Kraken "Fun to Think About"

McMenamin's kraken ideas have received widespread media attention partly because they were presented at a scientific conference, but that's no sign that a hypothesis is widely accepted or considered scientifically plausible, Myers added.

Scientific meetings "are where scientists go to talk with their peers and discuss preliminary data, so they naturally have fairly lax standards," Myers said.

Ryosuke Motani, a paleontologist at the University of California, Davis, who has also conducted research at Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park, was equally skeptical of McMenamin's idea.

"It's fun to think about," Motani said, "but I think it's very implausible."

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Motani proposed an alternative hypothesis for how the bones came to be arranged the way they are.

"These bones are disc-shaped, so when they're disarticulated after rotting, they lay flat on the seafloor and can get gathered up and packed together by ocean currents," he said.

"This particular specimen [that McMenamin focused on] has two rows. But I've seen others that have three rows. ... It's natural that the bones get arranged like that."

Earlier time : The Mayans

That deals with another member of the krakken family that was not chosen and given the end time powers.

In ancient times Mayanwikika a mayan boy was walking near a forest near the ocean. The krakken walked out of the ocean and told Mayanwikika several prophecies : one of them being the end of the world.

He taught him the calendar and showed him the day that the world would end.

Mayanwikika had a ancient brain and could not understand future concepts. Therefore the krakken had to teach him every prophecy in rhyme so that scientist would one day figure out what was meant by Mayanwikika 's scrolls and the calendar.

Why the Calendar

Krakken at that time was given the prophecies by "The Being" From young when krakken was still a young seamonster. A bluelight would visit him at night and take the Krakken on a journey showing him the future. Unlike mere mortals the krakken was invincible and could not die. His brain was also more advanced unlike humans and he from young saw that the human was capable of good and evil.

As the chosen endbringer the krakken's role was not to interfere with humanity though past showing the endtime and he could not help mere mortals from destructive paths.

The Observer

The krakken could listen to all conversations including the Internet. Also he could enter any creature and observe. Therefore the krakken is everywhere at once and the observer of life.

The Chosen Time approaches

As the chosen time approached the krakken saw still the same struggle with good and evil. With the coming of the Internet he saw now the human growing arrogant beyond its own skin. The end times could only be averted if the humans learned humility and to treat nature with respect and dignity. Alas Krakken was tortured by nature 's scream and man's arrogance and saw that the path has set.

The End Times

Therefore Krakken left his sea dwelling at 2 AM the first light and will reach the shores of HY BRASIL that will rise out of the sea to signal the end times along with Atlantis and other node islands throughout the world. At HY BRASIL he will start the end sequence and final charging whereupon he will draw all the powers of nature through the ground. Minerals, metals and deep buried energy sources is drawn into the Krakken as he grows bigger and bigger. Like veins the brave observer will see black shiny pulsating veins and a sound like a hundred mountains breaking apart. As he is at his tallest near the end of earth air. The Krakken will reach forward and connect with all island nodes like a million motors and a million birds a piercing shriek will be heard throughout the world reaching a crescendo at 11:15PM (The first times). Instantly bursting all eardrums at its highest pitch. The Krakken will then bring forward all the light that he absorbed instantly blinding every living creator. At the final second the blind and deaf mortals will feel the most excruciating pain before the earth implodes.

THE END....

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