Ancient squid-like creature with paperclip-shaped shell lived for 200 years

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A pair of researchers at Syracuse University has found evidence that an ancient squid-like creature with a paperclip-shaped shell may have lived for hundreds of years. 

Diplomoceras maximum lived approximately 68 million years ago in the waters around what is now Antarctica, at approximately the same time as Tyrannosaurus rex.

D. maximum was a large, squid-like creature (its shell was over 1.5 meters tall), an ammonite that was part of a now-extinct group of tentacled cephalopods. It went extinct at the same time as the dinosaurs, presumably for the same reason: the Chicxulub asteroid strike.

[...]  By adding up the number of ridges on the shell that were formed by the methane, the researchers found that the D. maximum specimen had lived to be approximately 200 years old.

The researchers suggest their finding is interesting because while some modern shellfish live for approximately 200 years, squid typically only live for four or five years.

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[Aloe 1,199]

Tasty yet useful! 

[Poker 3,770]

It's so cute.

[Killa 18,857]

Thats a long ancient rod

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And to think those creatures evolved into today's common office paper clip. Truly amazing. 

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Serve it ancient squid-like style  

[Sneaky Oliver 23,022]

16 minutes ago, FfFfFfFF said:

It went extinct at the same time as the dinosaurs, presumably for the same reason: the Chicxulub asteroid strike.

every time i read something like this, i can't help but to think another asteroid like that can randomly hits us any time, with no warning, just BAM and we're all f*cked. 

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4 minutes ago, Sneaky Oliver said:

every time i read something like this, i can't help but to think another asteroid like that can randomly hits us any time, with no warning, just BAM and we're all f*cked. 

Careful, 2020 isn't over yet. 

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21 minutes ago, FfFfFfFF said:

It went extinct at the same time as the dinosaurs, presumably for the same reason: the Chicxulub asteroid strike.

Only one survived

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Wow just when you think you've seen some strange creatures in the deep sea...we have alien looking creatures already on Earth that lived before us 

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and now it's dead and extinct

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36 minutes ago, PunkTheFunk said:

Only one survived

"Looks like you could use some help"

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I guess there's a reason why they went extinct. lol

Funny thing that an animal with such a bizar shape could survive in nature for 200 years. At first I thought maybe they lived that long because of the cold environment, but Antarctica wasn't where it is today and it wasn't cold there. Which is very curious.