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.

Scientists found that the male’s hectocotylus, the specialized arm for mating, is lined with receptors that can sense ...

The hectocotylus is both a reproductive and sensory organ, Harvard scientists and others have found. Octopuses are some of ...

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 ...

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