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Two Jurassic fossils from Wyoming reveal a bizarrely broad belemnite rostrum and extend the known history of an ancient cephalopod lineage. Paleontology would like everyone to stop calling it a squid butt. We respectfully decline.
Researchers accuse 160 million years of convergent evolution of false advertising. Oversized skull and slender snout point to a fast-snapping predator with no living mammalian counterpart.
Mitochondria and chloroplasts carry their own DNA because they descend from ancient bacteria that became permanent parts of eukaryotic cells.