6+ hour, 41+ min ago  (1661+ words) A 300-million-year-old tentacled sea creature has lost its crown as the world's oldest octopus, after scientists found evidence that it's not an octopus at all. University of Reading zoologist Thomas Clements, the lead researcher behind the new findings, said the…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (556+ words) When physician Pedro Lucas Porcela Aurelio unearthed a fossil in Brazil's southern Rio Grande do Sul state in 2014, he could barely imagine his discovery would later help scientists better understand the rise of early reptiles. Research identified that fossil as…...