![Oceana on X: "Octopuses have us all beat on the #ThrowbackThursday front. The oldest known octopus fossil belongs to an animal that lived 296 MILLION years ago! https://t.co/N3k1Ll8psI" / X Oceana on X: "Octopuses have us all beat on the #ThrowbackThursday front. The oldest known octopus fossil belongs to an animal that lived 296 MILLION years ago! https://t.co/N3k1Ll8psI" / X](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DWHQPHUVwAA-dsy.jpg)
Oceana on X: "Octopuses have us all beat on the #ThrowbackThursday front. The oldest known octopus fossil belongs to an animal that lived 296 MILLION years ago! https://t.co/N3k1Ll8psI" / X
![A fossil of an octopus. This fossil is especially rare, as the remains of the fossil mangled to stay before the octopus fully decomposed. : r/Naturewasmetal A fossil of an octopus. This fossil is especially rare, as the remains of the fossil mangled to stay before the octopus fully decomposed. : r/Naturewasmetal](https://i.redd.it/7plmtfbj2oq41.jpg)
A fossil of an octopus. This fossil is especially rare, as the remains of the fossil mangled to stay before the octopus fully decomposed. : r/Naturewasmetal
Nature Portfolio - A Nature Communications paper describes a newly discovered fossil octopus with ten arms, which is approximately 330–323 million years old. The fossil, which may be the oldest known ancestor
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