They called it Nectocaris pteryx - a small soft-bodied cephalopod with two tentacles rather than the eight or 10 seen in today's octopi. The new survey's results were presented in the journal Nature.

"Their compatriots included such beasts as Wiwaxia, a slug covered in leaflike scales and towering spines; Anomalocaris, resembling a cross between a lobster and a can opener; Nectocaris, a boggle ...

“Their compatriots included such beasts as Wiwaxia, a slug covered in leaf-like scales and towering spines; Anomalocaris, resembling a cross between a lobster and a can-opener; Nectocaris, a ...

Fossils are not always what they seem. Megarachne, once heralded as the largest spider of all time, was actually a sea scorpion. The squishy Cambrian critter Nectocaris has been transformed from ...

Nectocaris appeared to possess two tentacle-like appendages in front of the head, had a pair of camera eyes (not compound eyes like those seen among arthropods), and many fossils seemed to ...

Nectocaris appeared to possess two tentacle-like appendages in front of the head, had a pair of camera eyes (not compound eyes like those seen among arthropods), and many fossils seemed to ...

The mystery of a 500 million-year-old fossil has been solved. Found decades prior, the Nectocaris was determined unidentifiable, until in 2010 when a group of scientists compared it to a set of newly ...

The mystery of a 500 million-year-old fossil has been solved. Found decades prior, the Nectocaris was determined unidentifiable, until in 2010 when a group of scientists compared it to a set of newly ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto have finally classified a 500 million year old squid-like carnivore known as Nectocaris pteryx, a discovery three decades in the making. PhD student Martin ...

London, May 27 (ANI): A research by Canadian palaeontologists has shed new light on a hitherto unclassifiable 500 million-year-old squid-like carnivore known as Nectocaris pteryx.