Scientists Thought This Was the Oldest Octopus Until They Found Something Hidden Inside

Scientific knowledge is constantly updated, revised, or reshuffled as new insights emerge. One particular fossil was thought ...
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The world’s oldest ‘octopus’ fossil isn’t an octopus after all—Here’s what led to the discovery

For 25 years, a hand-sized fossil in Illinois rock was called the world’s oldest octopus. Scientists reexamined Pohlsepia mazonensis with a synchrotron that shoots powerful light beams through stone, ...
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Octopus Prime: Inside a growing and controversial farming effort

Octopuses are brilliant, emotional, and mysterious. Can they ever be farmed humanely? And if they can, should they be? Fast Company contributor Clint Rainey is the first journalist in the world to be ...

300-million-year-old sea creature mistaken for the world’s oldest octopus

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