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

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

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

Scientists utilized 3D X-ray imaging to uncover new details that challenged previous ideas about prehistoric marine life.

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

A fossil once celebrated as the world’s oldest octopus may be no octopus at all. New synchrotron scans of the roughly ...

New X ray study shows famed 300-million-year-old Pohlsepia fossil is not an octopus at all. Scientists have admited error and ...

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

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