Learn how a 300-million-year-old fossil once thought to be the oldest octopus was reidentified after hidden teeth were ...

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

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

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

A 300-million-year-old fossil that earned a Guiness World Record in 2015 as the world’s oldest octopus, has now been ...

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

In 2000, researchers thought they found the oldest fossil octopus, which lived over 300 million years ago. But it may just be ...

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

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

A famous 300-million-year-old fossil that was thought to be the world's oldest octopus—even featuring in the Guinness Book of ...