New species of extinct vampire-squid-like cephalopod is the first of its kind with 10 functional arms

ScienceDaily
Mar 8, 2022, 4:56 pm277 pts
New research shows that the oldest ancestors of the group of animals that includes octopuses and vampire squids had not eight but 10 arms. The study, which describes a new species of vampyropod based on a 328-million-year-old fossil that had not been previously described, pushes back the age of the group by…

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