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By Tom Fletcher for The Conversation In an ancient shallow bay of what is now Montana, the body of an octopus-like creature the size of a fist was buried on the seafloor. Some 325-328 million years later, a new paper published in Nature Communications provides some interesting insights into this mysterious and ancient cephalopod.

A vampire squid that died more than 300 million years ago has been named after President Biden by a group of paleontologists who discovered the new species,

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A new study suggests that climate change can also affect dead animals. 183 million years ago, rising global temperatures and rapid climate change may have caused fossilization conditions in the oceans that play a major role in preserving the soft and delicate parts of dead marine animals.

An ancient freshwater turtle is said to have survived the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

An exceptional fossil unearthed in Montana has given us the earliest known ancestor of vampire squids and octopuses.

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The researchers concluded the ancient creature lived millions of years earlier than previously believed, meaning that octopuses originated before the era of dinosaurs.

Scientists have found the oldest known ancestor of octopuses – an approximately 330 million-year-old fossil unearthed in Montana.

Scientists describe a new species of vampyropod from a 328-million-year-old, 10-armed fossil found in Montana.