A famous “oldest octopus” fossil has been exposed as a case of mistaken identity. Advanced imaging revealed hidden teeth ...

“It turns out the world’s most famous octopus fossil was never an octopus at all,” Clements says in a statement. “It was a ...

Scientists thought the fossil showed eight arms, fins, and other features typical of an octopus, pushing back the known ...

Marine life is indeed extremely interesting and unusual. Nevertheless, some animals in the oceans look really weird and ...

A 300-million-year-old fossil that earned a Guiness World Record in 2015 as the world’s oldest octopus, has now been reclassified after new research published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

To solve this puzzle, Thomas Clements, a paleontologist at the University of Leicester, and his colleagues put this supposed ...

For years, this fossil seemed to tell a thrilling story. Here was an animal from more than 300 million years ago that ...

While it seems like researchers are finding new fossils all the time, it is actually quite rare for an animal to become fossilized. The vast majority of all animals that ever lived do not become ...

The research solves a long-running puzzle in the understanding of octopus evolution that has confused scientists for decades.

Scientific knowledge is constantly updated, revised, or reshuffled as new insights emerge. One particular fossil was thought ...