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Meet the Ancient Sea Creature That Fooled Scientists for Years!

Tuesday 14 April 2026 β€’Newsround (BBC)
Meet the Ancient Sea Creature That Fooled Scientists for Years!

Photo: Andrew Jooste / Unsplash

Scientists just discovered that a 300-million-year-old fossil everyone thought was the oldest octopus ever... isn't an octopus at all! It's actually a completely different type of sea creature that lived way back when dinosaurs weren't even around yet. Now scientists are trying to figure out exactly what this mysterious ancient animal really was!
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