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An octopus swims at the zoo in Frankfurt, Germany on Friday, Nov. 25, 2005. In research published Tuesday, March 8, 2022, in the journal Nature Communications, scientists have described the oldest known fossil ancestor of octopuses — an approximately 330 million-year-old specimen found in Montana. (AP Photo/Bernd Kammerer, File)

An octopus swims at the zoo in Frankfurt, Germany on Friday, Nov. 25, 2005. In research published Tuesday, March 8, 2022, in the journal Nature Communications, scientists have described the oldest known fossil ancestor of octopuses — an approximately 330 million-year-old specimen found in Montana. (AP Photo/Bernd Kammerer, File)

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