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Roger WardThe oldest octopus fossil, which is 296 million years old, and pre-dates the dinosaurs.
The way things are going, this species will post-date humanity as well.
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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer@rogward makes me think of the @montecook RPG NUMENERA, where, a billion years from now, the Octopi rule the oceans. And humans, having returned by mysterious means? The Octopi response is "Oh. You're back."
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I have a strong suspicion that octopus are the cleverest and most advanced animals on this planet. We just don't understand them.
I have a strong suspicion that octopus are the cleverest and most advanced animals on this planet. We just don't understand them.
Sir Loinstake@jane_inprogress @rogward . That's because humans are too stupid methinks
CaptMorgan@rogward whats fascinating is that octopi are also intelligent problem solvers but 300 million years of evolution have not seemed to advance them beyond where they have been cognitively. Why have humans built a modern technological advanced civilization in a few thousand years and octopi are still living in tide pools after more than 100 million years of evolution?
@CaptMorgan @rogward, Who said we are civilised? We humans did. I can also call myself an octopus, but I'm not
Brian Urlacher@rogward this adds a whole different layer of unease for those of us deep into Lovecraftian fiction…
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Barbara@MegIrving @rogward Brilliant 👏
Phil Allsopp@MegIrving @rogward 60+ million years between one and t’other
John Dal@MegIrving @rogward Unicorns also survived. And Mermaids.
SocialistStan@rogward That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die
Fletch…?@rogward that is cool as hell.
Stoneface Vimes@rogward not if we keep pillaging and polluting the oceans, they won't.
Shingo Mouse 🌳@rogward And Squidward Tentacles here will find this article quite fascinating.
Rebeccaand yet, still younger than Mitch McConnell
MrsMiggins@rogward octopi are amazing creatures and more intelligent than most politicians
Char@rogward so they’d make poor index fossils but their longevity isn’t too surprising considering the long record of cephalopods in the fossil record in general
stupjam@rogward octopus outlasting humans is basically the plot of Splatoon
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Which means the comet did not wipe out the octopus.
Which means the comet did not wipe out the octopus.
Binary Large Octopus@rogward
I love these creatures and they never stop being fascinating. Also, for all those interested here, I again want to highly recommend Peter Godfrey-Smith's great book Other Minds, which looks at octopuses from the angle of evolution of intelligence and discusses them as a potential third evolution path of intelligence not yet taken into account.
Jiří Pavlík@rogward They will outlive humanity like in the "Love, Death & Robots" 01/17, "Alternate Histories". 😀
Raymond W GallacherI eat less seafood, in particular I no longer eat octopus.
They are too valuable and too intelligent.
JoJaSciPo@rogward
I think the mollusc expert at Cardiff museum told me fossilisation of their tentacles was Very Rare.
I think he said no ammonite fossil with its tentacles preserved had ever been found.
I think the mollusc expert at Cardiff museum told me fossilisation of their tentacles was Very Rare.
I think he said no ammonite fossil with its tentacles preserved had ever been found.
Shannon@rogward Of course they have. They are actually wonderful creatures. Amazingly intelligent and they have nearly magical abilities.
PhoenixSerenity@msquebanh @rogward The more I learn about octopuses the more they fascinate me. Octopus Teacher I think it's called on Netflix was pretty cool.
Aviva Gary@rogward Well they are my favorite alien... 🖖
KeithG@rogward Homo so-called sapiens is unlikely to be around as long as the dinosaurs, never mind the octopus. The level of private greed & imbecilic stupidly is off the scale. Was there ever another species with billionaires?
matt@rogward include links please. https://deshinewspost.com/see-the-best-fossil-octopus-ever-found/ (which itself is copy of https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-the-best-fossil-octopus-ever-found/) And, pictured fossil is 165 million years, not 296. Though there does seem to have been a 500 million year ancestor identified: https://www.livescience.com/ancient-octopus-relative-fossil.html
See the Best Fossil Octopus Ever Found - Ancient History and Mystery - HTGlobal Media
Paleontologists have recently provided a new look at a beautifully preserved cephalopod. A good cephalopod fossil is hard to find. Although ammonite shells, belemnite guards and other indicators of hard body parts are abundant in the fossil record, paleontologists seldom get to see the characteristic soft-tissue anatomy of these many-armed swimmers. Finds are so rare that one from 1982 still stands out: a 165-million-year-old fossilized octopus uncovered in France. J. C. Fischer and B. Riou named the eight-armed invertebrate Proteroctopus ribeti and described its suckers to the delight of other paleontologists. But despite its unprecedented level of detail, the fossil
digital luciferase@rogward If they lived longer than 3 years god only knows what kind of complex technological society they'd have come up with by now. Human 3 year olds are kinda useless when compared to octopi.
Annela@rogward Just think, that's about 150,000,000 - or more - generations of octopuses.
We humans have only had about 15,000 generations since 'early modern humans' evolved.
Maybe we should learn a bit more from them - if they'd teach us - rather than dismissing or 😔 eating them!
Helen Pletts@rogward they’ll be here long after us too…better-built for flooding
Lea de Groot TZ+10
Yogthos@leadegroot @rogward we just might destroy all complex life here the way we're going
Jennifer Slack@rogward the octopus will inherit the earth.
Redacted@rogward nu uh! The earth is only 1000 years old. And flat!
I kid, I kid!
I kid, I kid!
Kelvin Voskuijl@rogward do you post fossils a lot?
JennyD@rogward
That is amazing!
Pardon the pun here, though: Post-dating humanity by more than 8 or 9 lives.
Ok, ok. 8 for octo, 9 for pusy like in cats. God, I should call it a night and go to bed if I'm thinking like this now. Apologies, believe me.
That is amazing!
Pardon the pun here, though: Post-dating humanity by more than 8 or 9 lives.
Ok, ok. 8 for octo, 9 for pusy like in cats. God, I should call it a night and go to bed if I'm thinking like this now. Apologies, believe me.
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@rogward wow that's amazing.