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A fossil of the oldest octopus ancestor (a 10-armed vampyropod) was found to be more than 330 million years old. This discovery means that these cephalopods first appeared during the Carboniferous era, some 80 million years before the Mesozoic era in which reptiles and dinosaurs first arrived.
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