Triassic giant kraken!

About 225 million years ago, the oceans of Earth were roamed by gigantic, air-breathing reptiles. Snaggle-toothed ichthyosaurs larger than school buses swam at the top of the Triassic Period ocean food chain, or so it seemed before Mount Holyoke College paleontologist Mark McMenamin took a look at some of their remains in Nevada.

Now he thinks there was an even larger and more cunning sea monster that preyed on ichthyosaurs: a kraken of such mythological proportions that it would have sent Captain Nemo off to dry land. The evidence lies at Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in Nevada, where McMenamin and his daughter spent a few days last summer…

(via Gigantic Reptile Killer Unmasked)