Meaning of ink sac | Babel Free

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A muscular bag found in certain cephalopods used to generate ink.

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“The ink sac feeds into the rectum, controlled by a sphincter and in some inking events mucus from another organ, the funnel organ is ejected with water and ink through the anus and the siphon to create⟳ a cloud of ink. […] Fossils are particularly well described from the Carboniferous, Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and have⟳ been found in the USA, England, Russia, Lebanon and Germany. Sites such as Lyme Regis in Dorset have⟳ particularly yielded number⟳ of Jurassic “squid” ink sacs and nodules (Doguzhaeva et al. 2004).”

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