Prehistoric Life
Prehistoric
Secrets in Stone
The Earliest Fossils
The Silurian Reef
Trilobites
Fish
The Coal Forests
Early Reptiles and Amphibians
Sea Reptiles
Flying Reptiles
The Teeming Seas
Hunting Dinosaurs
Biggest Dinosaurs
Two-Footed Plant Eaters
Plated and Armoured Dinosaurs
Horned Dinosaurs
The Mammal Age Dawns
Grassland Mammals
The Ice Age
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Belemnites
Cutaway
Suture Lines
Shell Shapes
Shell Patterns
Ammonite Bed
*Octopus*
Belemnite Hooks
Shell Section
The Teeming Seas
Octopus
T
he earliest octopus fossil was found in Jurassic rocks. It is unusual for an octopus - an animal without a shell or skeleton - to be fossilised.
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Prehistoric Life
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The Teeming Seas