Ancient vampyropod named after Joe

330m years old. Tentacled monsters are often aliens.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-08/octopus-ancestors-lived-before-era-of-dinosaurs-study-shows

The creature, a vampyropod, was likely the ancestor of both modern octopuses and vampire squid, a confusingly named marine critter that’s much closer to an octopus than a squid. Previously, the “oldest known definitive” vampyropod was from around 240 million years ago, the authors said.

The scientists named the fossil Syllipsimopodi bideni, after President Joe Biden.