"It's a very difficult fossil to interpret. To look at it, it kind of just looks like a white mush." ...

"It's a huge gap. And so that big gap got researchers sort of questioning, ‘Is this thing actually an octopus?'" ...

More than two decades after scientists identified a fossil as the world’s oldest octopus — officials now say it wasn’t one at ...

A team cracked the case by examining the fossil using a synchrotron, which produces beams of light by accelerating electrons ...

Korn, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons For years, a 300-million-year-old fossil in Chicago was celebrated as the world’s oldest octopus. Now, after a fresh round of high-resolution scans, that celebrity ...

LONDON (AP) — A 300-million-year-old tentacled sea creature has lost its crown as the world’s oldest octopus, after scientists found evidence that it’s not an octopus at all.

Most carnivores have teeth to grasp and eat prey, so marine animals with teeth are not uncommon. Sharks, dolphins, eels, whales, many fish species, and marine mammals like seals and sea lions have ...

The fossil, named Pohlsepia mazonensis, had featured in the Guinness Book of Records as the earliest known octopus. Dr Thomas ...

A 300-million-year-old tentacled sea creature has lost its crown as the world’s oldest octopus, after scientists found ...