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BBC Inside ScienceHigh Seas treaty talks and discoveries from the deepOldest relative of the octopus found

A 330 million-year-old, ten-armed relative of the octopus has been discovered in Montana

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Artistic impression of Syllipsimopodi, when its Montana home was a tropical bay

Credit: K. Whalen/Christopher Whalen

  • 330 million-year-old fossil of Syllipsimopodi from the Royal Ontario Museum collections
  • Artistic impression of Syllipsimopodi, when its Montana home was a tropical bay

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