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World’s oldest octopus fossil from Guinness World Records was misidentified — here's what it really is
Learn how a 300-million-year-old fossil once thought to be the oldest octopus was reidentified after hidden teeth were ...
“It turns out the world’s most famous octopus fossil was never an octopus at all,” Clements says in a statement. “It was a ...
To solve this puzzle, Thomas Clements, a paleontologist at the University of Leicester, and his colleagues put this supposed ...
In 2000, researchers thought they found the oldest fossil octopus, which lived over 300 million years ago. But it may just be ...
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." The post Ancient ‘octopus’ fossil is ...
A famous “oldest octopus” fossil has been exposed as a case of mistaken identity. Advanced imaging revealed hidden teeth ...
The Pohlsepia mazonensis fossil was found in Illinois in the US in 2000, and first identified as an octopus 25 years ago. It ...
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