300-million-year-old sea creature mistaken for the world’s oldest octopus

For years, this fossil seemed to tell a thrilling story. Here was an animal from more than 300 million years ago that ...

Scientists discover the world’s oldest ‘octopus’ fossil is a different 300-million-year-old critter

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

World’s oldest octopus fossil found 50 miles southwest of Chicago isn’t an octopus after all, scientists say

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

The 'oldest octopus' in the world isn't an octopus after all, scientists find

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

Which is the oldest octopus in the world?

World’s Oldest Octopus: Octopuses are among the most intelligent and mysterious creatures in the ocean. Known for their ...

Oldest octopus fossil found to not be an octopus

To solve this puzzle, Thomas Clements, a paleontologist at the University of Leicester, and his colleagues put this supposed ...
ABC7

Octopus emerges from shell, surprising fisherman in Japan

A shellfish caught by a fisherman in Suruga Bay, Japan, was not what it first appeared, according to Storyful Video shows an octopus emerge from a shell and then leap off the side of a boat to return ...
The Independent

Blue Planet 2: Octopus discovered making armour out of shells for the first time

Monitoring and studying wildlife as closely as the Blue Planet II crew do in order to make the show, they're occasionally privy to never before observed creatures and behaviours. We saw that in ...