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

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

A 300-million-year-old fossil, previously labelled as the world's oldest octopus, has been reclassified as a nautiloid, which ...

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

The mystery of a controversial fossil, once believed to be the oldest known octopus, has finally been resolved. First ...

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

An artistic reconstruction of the deathbed of Pohlsepia mazonensis, 300 million years ago. (Franz Anthony/Clements et al., ...

But new research shows that it was a case of mistaken identity with the fossil hiding its true nature as a result of de ...