Where Are All The Squid Fossils?

This was really interesting, thanks Blake.

When a language borrows and absorbs a word from another language, the use of that word in context of the borrowing language becomes part of that language. It is therefore not correct to say "octopus is a Greek word" as much as it is to say "octopus comes from a Greek work" and in the context of octopus as an English word we can use whatever rules we'd like to refer to its plural which would preferably be the one that maintains the most consistency within our already inconsistent language. It just so happens to be the one that maintains that consistency the most is "octopuses."

Wew

These things were massive back then I'd imagine. Biggest one recorded is 43ft imagine how big these monsters were back then

wow so the truth is we have no idea how big they got 😢

You lift bro?!

If the soft tissue of squids don't fossilize well due to high levels of ammonia, isn't it odd that the other related cephalopod that is thought to not fossilize well because of this reason was already called an ammonite?

Researching further, the name was apparently coined by Pliny the Elder way back in 79 AD as 'ammonis conua', meaning "horns of Ammon" due to the fossils' resemblance to ram's horns like that depicted on Egyptian god Ammon. Pliny apparently also happened to have called a possibly non-ammonia sea salt 'hammoniacum' because of its proximity to a nearby temple of again Amun in the Roman province of Cyrenaica and Roman visitors to another ancient temple of the Oracle of Amun in Siwa oasis collected a white crystalline material from ceiling and walls that they called 'sal ammoniac' ("salt of Ammon") that, centuries later, an 18th century Joseph Priestley noted as releasing a vapor when reacting with lime that he then called ammonia.
Now squids, and in turn ammonites, are found to not fossilize well because of high levels of ammonia. Weird, eh?
(Hang on, then there's the term 'squidgy'... Nah - I'll leave it alone)

Before even watching this. Squid no bone. No bone mean no…?

They’re in invertebrates

Squid is like 90% water, with a hard beak. I would assume some squid fossils have been misclassified as birds

How does this tie into the lore of Splatoon

U get it wrong and i have proof at my home in sterkwater

Faster explanation: octopus live on sea floor so they dont have ammonia cuz ammonia make them float but squid jave anmonia so they can float and for something to fossilize it need low pH but since ammonia have alot of pH and squids have ammonia they dont fossilize meanwhile octopuses having no ammonia thats they can fossilize

Incorrect I stole all the squid fossils.

First, tell me where the squid bones are. There, i saved everyone 9 minutes.

I think my little brother took the squids. He is always up to something.

All of them inside my tummy

did nyone else hear a low ringing tone?

I would still expect their beaks to fossilize.... they got tough hard beaks.

So Octopus is a latin word, but is not conjugated in the second declination like other similar latin male nouns. This is because it came into Latin from Greek and kept it's Greek 3rd declination plural form "octopodes".

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Actually man I have been going down there and getting them all before anybody else could for like...i mean a real real long time

"This means that Squidward is not a true squid" checks out since he's an octopus and not a squid anyway

Hmmm I wonder what else existed that don’t leave fossils.

Squids have no bones, but you could look for fossilized beak and claws

I think about how many fossils we have lost to volcanic activity, plate tectonics, wind/water erosion. We are probably missing SO much of the fossil record because of those things.

nowhere, everyone knows Squids come from space, they are just a few thousand years here

Ok but why is no one talking about how buff the narrator is? 🥴🥴🥴

Its octopussies😂

i did not expect the narrator to look like that lol

What is PH?

Here in vernal Utah we have giant petrified squid in the rock and turtles bigger then a VW. So lots of wind bags on the internet these days.

Bro is packing

They're obviously where you left them last.

“Where are all the squid fossils?”

*SCP-4246 intensifies*

Well if we incline octopus as a Greek word, the plural should be octopodes because pous— podes :)

I have loadsa belamnites. But squid stopped having them for some reason.

I figured the beaks would fossilize kinda like shark jaws

Every day is a school day.. thanks for the knowledge 👍

Beaks?

So it’s all about that base?

Man, I click on some random stuff when I smoke weed.

Bro, looser jeans, give the boys a break

It's "octopussies" actually.

Yeah sometimes science is gross. And sometimes you have to get your hands dirty 🤮👍

So.... The fine people at PBS, are too stupid to remember that squids are invertebrates......