Some of the earliest relatives of today’s octopuses, squid and cuttlefish had only two tentacles and measured no longer than a child’s little finger, a new study suggests.
JET PROPELLED New fossils of Nectocaris pteryx (illustration shown), a species previously known only from a single, poorly preserved specimen, suggest that the creature is an early relative of today’s octopuses, squid and other cephalopods.
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