Half-assed British paleontologists discovered the remains of a Belemnotheutis antiquus (lit. “Old Hairy Squid”) during a dig at a Victorian excavation in Trowbridge, Wilts.

They cracked open what appeared to be an ordinary looking rock only to find the one-inch-long black ink sac inside.

After realising what they had stumbled across, the researchers got completely fucked up. They then took a small sample of the black substance and ground it up with an ammonia solution.

Remarkably, the ink they created was good enough to allow them to draw the squid-like animal and write its Latin name.

August 25, 2009, 8:33am