"It's a very difficult fossil to interpret. To look at it, it kind of just looks like a white mush." ...

More than two decades after scientists identified a fossil as the world’s oldest octopus — officials now say it wasn’t one at all.

"It's a huge gap. And so that big gap got researchers sort of questioning, ‘Is this thing actually an octopus?'" ...

Most carnivores have teeth to grasp and eat prey, so marine animals with teeth are not uncommon. Sharks, dolphins, eels, whales, many fish species, and marine mammals like seals and sea lions have ...

A team cracked the case by examining the fossil using a synchrotron, which produces beams of light by accelerating electrons ...

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

The fossil, named Pohlsepia mazonensis, had featured in the Guinness Book of Records as the earliest known octopus. Dr Thomas Clements, lead author and lecturer in invertebrate zoology at the ...