Cthulhuwatch (3)
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October 15, 2011
As noted in May 2010 and November 2010, paleontologists have been participating in a sinister cover-up — by insisting that recently discovered fossilized body parts of an alien-god from the planet Vhoorl are nothing but a previously unrecorded species of octopus, or some other equally implausible bullshit.
Mount Holyoke College paleontologist Mark McMenamin is the latest frontman for the Cthulhu denialist operation! At the Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in Nevada, the fossilized remains of nine 45-foot (14-meter) creatures have long perplexed researchers. In the 1950s, the notable palaeontologist and zoologist Charles Lewis Camp of U.C. Berkeley puzzled over these fossils, which seemed to be deep sea creatures (ichthyosaurs, of the species Shonisaurus popularis, was the prevailing notion), but whose bones were arranged in a peculiar way.
“In his papers [Camp] keeps referring to how peculiar this site is,” McMenamin told Science Daily earlier this week. “We agree, it is peculiar.” [The reference to a deceased scientist’s papers — it’s deliciously Lovecraftian!]
“It became very clear that something very odd was going on there,” said McMenamin. “It was a very odd configuration of bones.” How odd? Really odd.
In the fossil bed, some of the shonisaur vertebral disks are arranged in curious linear patterns with almost geometric regularity, McMenamin explained. […] Even more creepy: The arranged vertebrae resemble the pattern of sucker discs on a cephalopod tentacle, with each vertebra strongly resembling a coleoid sucker.
McMenamin’s fantastic hypothesis — it was a giant Triassic kraken who killed the shonisaurs! It was the most intelligent invertebrate ever! It arranged the vertebral discs in double line patterns, with individual pieces nesting in a fitted fashion as if they were part of a puzzle! A puzzle that was also a self-portrait! And then the kraken died and didn’t leave a fossil, which is why no one ever knew it existed before! — should not distract clear-minded observers from what is so obviously the case.
Those fossils aren’t ichthyosaurs; they’re the remains of an alien-god from the planet Vhoorl. Cthulhu!
Third in a series of posts investigating the great Cthulhu cover-up scheme perpetrated by a sinister cabal of paleontologists.