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Greetings Blogophiles! It’s finally here, October 8th, the first day of International Cephalopod Awareness Days (ICAD)! Because it is the 8th and octopuses have eight arms, today is Octopus Day!! Be aware of them. I really like octopuses, but as a paleontologist, I almost never get to see them. To quote Dirk Fuchs of the Freie Universität of Berlin “finding an octopus fossil is about as unlikely as finding a fossil sneeze.” My only research experience with octopuses is examining the chemical composition of their stylets (vestigial shells) and those are from extant octopuses.

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by Trish Weaver