Indiandefencereview.com May 12, 2026 • 12:00

Scientists Finally Cracked the Case of This Mysterious 300-Million-Year-Old Fossil - Indian Defence Review

By Slamani Aghilas

A celebrated 300-million-year-old fossil long hailed as the world's oldest octopus has just been exposed as something else entirely.

A fossil celebrated for a quarter century as the oldest known octopus has been reclassified as an entirely different marine animal, overturning a key assumption in cephalopod evolution. The misidenti… [+4429 chars]

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Scientists Finally Cracked the Case of This Mysterious 300-Million-Year-Old Fossil - Indian Defence Review

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