This might give you nightmares before you go for a dip in the ocean: giant octopuses the size of whales. A new analysis of fossils shows that these intelligence creatures once grew to a length of 62 feet and used their strong jaws to crush the skeletons of their prey. Fortunately for today’s ocean swimmers, this was millions of years ago. @ScienceAlert has more:

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