Giant Squid Reality: There Were Once Few Kraken to Release
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 17:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The fearsome sea monster of Greek and Norse tales -- and the creature that fought Captain Nemo in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea -- was once driven close to extinction, gene sequencing suggests. The genetic uniformity of giant squid across distant oceans hints at a past evolutionary bottleneck, but also at low resiliency toward future crises. [More]