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

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

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

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

The story of a 300-million-year-old fossil has been rewritten after scientists discovered that it doesn’t actually belong to ...

Seven-year-old Nina spotted a piece of bone while out on the beach with her dad and brother and it turned out to be ancient!