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

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

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

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

Learn how a 300-million-year-old fossil once thought to be the oldest octopus was reidentified after hidden teeth were ...

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

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

“It turns out the world’s most famous octopus fossil was never an octopus at all,” Clements says in a statement. “It was a ...

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

A 300-million-year-old fossil that earned a Guiness World Record in 2015 as the world’s oldest octopus, has now been ...

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

Newly published research by the University of Reading concludes that fossilized remains listed by Guinness World Records as ...