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

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

A fossil once believed to show the world’s oldest imprint of an octopus – some 300 million years old – is actually another ...

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

For years, a 300-million-year-old fossil in Chicago was celebrated as the world’s oldest octopus. Now, after a fresh round of ...

Zoologists believe the animal decayed for weeks before it was fossilised 300-million-years ago and this led to the case of ...

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

Scientists uncover the truth behind a well-known fossil, Pohlsepia mazonensis, showing the "world's oldest octopus" was not ...

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