Joel Kontinen
The oldest
known cephalopod — part of the group that
includes octopuses, squid, cuttlefish and nautiluses — is more than
half a billion years old, a new study suggests.
The fossils date to the Early Cambrian period and are about 522 million years old, according to the researchers, who found the
fossils on the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland, Canada.
Evolutionists believe that the cephalopods were the ancestor of all creatures that
live in the sea and have tentacles,
The fosills are tiny. one of them measured just 1.4 centimeters or half an inch tall and 01 inches 0...3 cm or o.1 iches wide
Source:
GeggeL, Laura . 2021. 500
million-year-old fossil is the granddaddy of all cephalopods Live Science 28 March.
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