earthlingSquid Empire by Danna Staaf, 2017
The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods
The ancient, mysterious, intelligent, and adaptable creatures who once ruled the oceans
Before there were mammals on land, there were dinosaurs. And before there were fish in the sea, there were cephalopods-the ancestors of modern squid and Earth's first truly substantial animals. Cephalopods became the first creatures to rise from the seafloor, essentially inventing the act of swimming.
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