Japan researchers find squid dominated ancient Cretaceous period seas

A research team at a Japanese university has found that the world's oceans during the Cretaceous period, roughly 70 million to 100 million years ago, were dominated by squid.In a report published recently in the journal Science by the researchers from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Hokkaido University, evidence suggested that squid far outnumbered ammonites and fish -- the opposite of previous assumptions.Being soft-bodied creatures, squid rarely fossilized, with typically only their beaks remaining after decomposition.The team developed a technique to digitally produce t…READ FULL ARTICLE