Giant prehistoric krakens may have sculpted selfportraits using ichthyosaur bone

[Neil]

Neat.

A random hypothesis?

So?  I still find it neat.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.  The Sagan Statement is a good guide.

[garbon]

I wish Hamilcar were here for comment.  

He'd say the shonisaurs deserved to do for swimming so close to a kraken.

[Darth Wagtaros]

  It's not the same when you say it.

[jimmy olsen]

Maybe it really was Cthulhu.

It's as good a theory as proposed here.  I fully expect Brazen post about shoddy journalism, and Viking to post that this isn't really science.  It's like an April Fools joke.  I didn't think that Tim was that credulous.

I said it was cool, I didn't say it was right.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Maybe it really was Cthulhu.

It's as good a theory as proposed here.  I fully expect Brazen post about shoddy journalism, and Viking to post that this isn't really science.  It's like an April Fools joke.  I didn't think that Tim was that credulous.

I said it was cool, I didn't say it was right.

We'll be the judge of that.

[garbon]

It's not the same when you say it.

Oh go flip another canoe.

[garbon]

Maybe it really was Cthulhu.

It's as good a theory as proposed here.  I fully expect Brazen post about shoddy journalism, and Viking to post that this isn't really science.  It's like an April Fools joke.  I didn't think that Tim was that credulous.

I said it was cool, I didn't say it was right.

That a scientist posited that an imaginary creature performed a human act? Sounds like an anthropomorphism fantasy.

[Razgovory]

I think they should take away his scientist license.

[Eddie Teach]

Maybe if this was the Soviet Union, Raz could be in charge of handing out the scientist licenses. 

[garbon]

Maybe if this was the Soviet Union, Raz could be in charge of handing out the scientist licenses. 

In Soviet Russia, scientist license hands out you.

[Grinning_Colossus]

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/10/the-giant-prehistoric-squid-that-ate-common-sense.ars

This guy thinks he should have his science license revoked:

There is no direct evidence for the existence of the animal the McMenamins call "the kraken." No exceptionally preserved body, no fossilized tentacle hooks, no beak—nothing. The McMenamins' entire case is based on peculiar inferences about the site. It is a case of reading the scattered bones as if they were tea leaves able to tell someone's fortune. Rather than being distributed through the bonebed by natural processes related to decay and preservation, the McMenamins argue that the Shonisaurus bones were intentionally arrayed in a "midden" by a huge cephalopod nearly 100 feet long (how the length of the imaginary animal was estimated is anyone's guess).

[Brazen]

I fully expect Brazen post about shoddy journalism

Shoddy journalism, half-arsed research and no interview from an opposing viewpoint.

My amateur theory is that the icthyosaurs were eaten by something which shat out in the bones in the shape of giant dino-turds. I think that holds more water than the "expert" theory.

[KRonn]

Maybe these intelligent Krakens are human kind's missing link after all!   

[Malthus]

Sorta reminds me of David Macaulay's Motel of the Mysteries. Archaeologists of the future excavate a 20th century motel buried in some sort of catastrophy and perfectly preserved - and hilariously misinterpret everything they find. 

[Grey Fox]

Sorta reminds me of David Macaulay's Motel of the Mysteries. Archaeologists of the future excavate a 20th century motel buried in some sort of catastrophy and perfectly preserved - and hilariously misinterpret everything they find. 

Maybe we did the samething & the pyramids were just Hotels.