Scientists Uncovered Evidence That Octopuses Are Probably Older Than Dinosaurs
The earliest surviving progenitor of octopuses was recently uncovered in Montana in the version of a roughly 330-million-year-old fossil.
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The earliest surviving progenitor of octopuses was recently uncovered in Montana in the version of a roughly 330-million-year-old fossil.
Scientists have described the oldest known fossil ancestor of octopuses — an approximately 330 million-year-old specimen found in Montana.
Scientists have described the oldest known fossil ancestor of octopuses — an approximately 330 million-year-old specimen found in Montana.
The more than 300-million-year-old fossilized Syllipsimopodi bideni, a vampyropod, was unearthed from the Bear Gulch Limestone in Montana and donated in 1988 to the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada. There, it sat relatively unstudied until paleontologists from the American Museum of Natural History slid it under a microscope.
Dr Tom Fletcher of the University of Leicester dives into the details of this 10-armed, 328m-year-old octopus ancestor.