{"id":236090,"date":"2026-04-28T18:07:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T23:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/real-life-kraken-revealed-scientists-discover-60-foot-octopus-that-once-ruled-earths-oceans-as-a-top-predator"},"modified":"2026-04-28T18:07:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T23:07:25","slug":"real-life-kraken-revealed-scientists-discover-60-foot-octopus-that-once-ruled-earths-oceans-as-a-top-predator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/real-life-kraken-revealed-scientists-discover-60-foot-octopus-that-once-ruled-earths-oceans-as-a-top-predator","title":{"rendered":"Real-life Kraken revealed? Scientists discover 60-foot octopus that once ruled Earth\u2019s oceans as a top predator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/real-life-kraken-revealed-scientists-discover-60-foot-octopus-that-once-ruled-earths-oceans-as-a-top-predator.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Animals &amp; Pets News: Fossil evidence suggests there were real \u2018Kraken\u2019 \u2013 finned octopuses who fed on large animals at the top of the food chain \u2013 in ancient Cretaceous oce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animals &amp; Pets News: Fossil evidence suggests there were real \u2018Kraken\u2019 \u2013 finned octopuses who fed on large animals at the top of the food chain \u2013 in ancient Cretaceous oce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}