Cretaceous Octopus With Ink And Suckers -- The World's Least Likely Fossils?
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 10:28
in Paleontology & Archaeology
New finds of 95-million-year-old fossils reveal much earlier origins of modern octopuses. These are among the rarest and most unlikely of fossils. The chances of an octopus corpse surviving long enough to be fossilized are so small that prior to this discovery only a single fossil species was known, and from fewer specimens than octopuses have legs.