Older than Dinosaurs and Still Alive

Every time we think of the oldest creatures alive, our mind tends to jump right to dinosaurs. Which is not wrong since they are ONE of the oldestcreatures we know of. However, unlike the dinosaurs, we have a creature that is still among us that has been alive since before dinosaurs existed.It's the octopus.Finding fossils of octopuses are for a start....quite difficultsince they are made mostly of soft tissue and muscles, they tend to decompose quite quickly...as compared to a creature with bones. So it was more like a miracle when scientist found 3 well-preservedoctopus fossils(in Lebanon) that lived millions of years ago.Dinosaurs are known to roamthe earth 231 million years ago and the octopus is now said to have existed about 296 million years ago.
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