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Scientists say the world's oldest octopus fossil isn't an octopus after all

Posted 4/9/26

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. University of Reading zoology lecturer …

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