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

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

New X ray study shows famed 300-million-year-old Pohlsepia fossil is not an octopus at all. Scientists have admited error and ...

Scientists have found evidence that a 300-million-year-old sea creature previously thought to be the world's oldest octopus is actually a nautilus relative.

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

In Lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland, archaeologists have recovered a shipload of more than 1,000 very well preserved ceramic ...

A new study reveals that the fossil once thought to be the world's oldest octopus is, in fact, a distant relative of the ...

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

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

Scientists have found evidence that a 300-million-year-old sea creature previously thought to be the world’s oldest octopus ...

A 300-million-year-old fossil once thought to be the oldest octopus ever discovered, has been re-identified as a different ...