{"id":383132,"date":"2026-04-09T12:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/383132\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T12:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:07:09","slug":"scientists-say-the-worlds-oldest-octopus-fossil-isnt-an-octopus-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/383132\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists say the world&#8217;s oldest octopus fossil isn&#8217;t an octopus after all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"XMRRFWOY2ZEGNH2G4SZ2XUDDMQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">LONDON \u2014 A 300-million-year-old tentacled sea creature has lost its crown as the world\u2019s oldest octopus, after scientists found evidence that it\u2019s not an octopus at all.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"RHN7KZQBNFDYTK6GPHQ6WQ4KQY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Newly published research concludes that fossilized remains listed by Guinness World Records as the earliest known octopus belong instead to a relative of a nautilus, a cephalopod with both tentacles and a shell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON \u2014 A 300-million-year-old tentacled sea creature has lost its crown as the world\u2019s oldest octopus, after scientists&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2594,183029,122,85,46,11200,11201,141,11199,126,8014],"class_list":["post-383132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-animals","tag-eu-britain-fossil-mystery","tag-general-news","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-octopuses","tag-oddities","tag-science","tag-shellfish","tag-world-news","tag-zoology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}