For twenty-five years, a 300-million-year-old fossil from Illinois was believed to be the oldest octopus ever discovered, anchoring a cornerstone of cephalopod evolutionary history. Now, synchrotron imaging has revealed that Pohlsepia mazonensis was never an octopus at all, but a nautiloid relative whose decomposed body had assumed a deceptive shape. The correction does not diminish the fossil—it transforms it, making it the oldest known record of soft tissue preserved in a nautiloid and pushing the true origins of octopuses forward into the Jurassic. Science, as ever, advances not by holding
Ancient 'Octopus' Fossil Reclassified as Nautiloid, Reshaping Cephalopod Evolution
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