{"id":897971,"date":"2026-04-09T12:14:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/oldest-fossil-octopus-wasnt-one-after-all\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T12:14:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:14:48","slug":"oldest-fossil-octopus-wasnt-one-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/oldest-fossil-octopus-wasnt-one-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Oldest Fossil Octopus\u2019 Wasn\u2019t One After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Pohlsepia mazonensis, a cephalopod species first described in 2000 from a 300-million-year-old specimen and featured in the Guinness Book of Records as the world\u2019s oldest octopus, has been reclassified as a distant relative of nautiluses, reshaping paleontologists\u2019 timeline for when octopuses first evolved.<br \/>\nThe post \u2018Oldest Fossil Octopus\u2019 Wasn\u2019t One After All appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\/paleontology\/paleocadmus-pohli-14682.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Enrico de Lazaro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Pohlsepia mazonensis, a cephalopod species first described in 2000 from a 300-million-year-old specimen and featured in the Guinness Book of Records as the world\u2019s oldest octopus, has been reclassified as a distant relative of nautiluses, reshaping paleontologists\u2019 timeline for when octopuses first evolved. The post \u2018Oldest Fossil Octopus\u2019 Wasn\u2019t One After All [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":897972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25191,199,536],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-897971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fossil","8":"category-oldest","9":"category-science-nature"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}