Tag Archive for 'Octopodidae'

Reconstruction of a Paleocadmus decaying in the Mazon Creek marine basin; the separated shell is visible in the background; other Mazon Creek fauna are visible, such as the polychaete Esconites zelus (foreground) and Bandringa rayi, an elasmobranch shark (back left). Image credit: Franz Anthony.

‘Oldest Fossil Octopus’ Wasn’t One After All

Apr 8, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

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...

Callistoctopus xiaohongxu, live specimen. Image credit: Zheng et al., doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1121.86264.

New Species of Octopus Discovered

Sep 15, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Marine biologists have described a new species of the genus Callistoctopus from the waters of southeast China. Callistoctopus xiaohongxu, live specimen....