My last day of mental clarity….but first…..paleontology

Zeus ordered Posiden to do just that and destroy the kingdom of Argos…..

In Nevada evidence of the Kraken may have been found…..NO!  I am NOT talking about candidate Angle….though she could be categorized as some sort of beast….but in this case I am speaking of what scientist have called a Kraken and a couple of really bad SciFi movies bearing the name of the beast……sorry, I digress…..Newser website has this report……

Sasquatch should be really nervous right now… First, Siberian officials announced they had proof that Yeti exists. Now a Massachusetts paleontologist says he has indirect evidence that the fearsome kraken once roamed the seas. At the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Mark McMenamin yesterday posited that the 100-foot-long mythological sea monster was soft-bodied, which would explain the absence of bones and other fossil evidence. But he believes that the bones of nine ichthyosaurs at the Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in Nevada point to the kraken’s existence, reports LiveScience. The markings on the bones of the 45-foot ichthyosaurs at the park, along with the larger than expected number of broken ribs and the bones’ “very odd configuration,” led McMenamin to believe that the ichthyosaurs had likely been killed then carried to a single lair, likely by an octopus-type creature that had either drowned them or twisted their necks. Science Daily also reports that McMenamin observed that the fossils’ vertebrae seem to be arranged in a way that mimics the pattern of the sucker discs on a cephalopod tentacle. LiveScience notes that plenty of people are calling his circumstantial evidence hooey. Click to read one such reaction, a Wired piece titled “The Giant, Prehistoric Squid That Ate Common Sense.”

Okay, there is more……click on the link for the discovery of a real Yeti….it is a good piece also……

About here we can insert all the sushi jokes……..and maybe a couple calamari ones too……