You may have spotted a viral Instagram video posted in April 2026 showing an octopus hurling rocks at another octopus, along with a claim that females throw debris at males who won’t leave them alone.

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More than two decades after scientists identified a fossil as the world’s oldest octopus — officials now say it wasn’t one at all. A recent study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal ...

More than two decades after scientists identified a fossil as the world's oldest octopus — officials now say it wasn't one at all. A recent study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal ...

LONDON (AP) — 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. Newly published research ...

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With chapters alternating between human and cephalopod points of view, Remarkably Bright Creatures tells the story of Marcellus, a curmudgeonly and incredibly charming giant Pacific octopus, Tova, the ...

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The story of a 300-million-year-old fossil has been rewritten after scientists discovered that it doesn’t actually belong to the world’s oldest octopus as previously thought. In fact, it belongs to an ...

A new study reveals that the fossil once thought to be the world's oldest octopus is, in fact, a distant relative of the nautilus, reshaping our understanding of cephalopod evolution. For more than ...