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

TJ Rumfield is among a group of forgotten prospects who are off to hot starts, and need to be on your fantasy baseball radar, writes Scott Pianowski. The Phillies and Giants begin a three-game series ...

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

The famous 300-million-year-old Pohlsepia mazonensis, discovered in 2000 and later lauded in the Guinness Book of World ...

A new form of imaging has unseated an octopus from its oldest fossil title, but resulted in a new discovery in the process.

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

For more than 25 years, a small, soft-bodied fossil pulled from an Illinois coal mine held a remarkable title: the world’s ...

Pohlsepia mazonensis fossil reclassified from octopus to nautiloid species Advanced scans revealed a radula with 11 tooth-like elements, typical of nautiloids Decomposition before burial made the ...

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

A 300-million-year-old tentacled sea creature has lost its crown as the world’s oldest octopus, after scientists found ...

A 300-million-year-old fossil that earned a Guiness World Record in 2015 as the world’s oldest octopus, has now been ...