Joe Biden is a fossil: 328m-year-old vampire squid named after president

Scientists name ‘incredibly rare’ fossil in recognition of Biden’s ‘plans to address climate change and to fund scientific research’

Researchers have identified an extinct vampire-squid-like creature that is the first of its kind with 10 functional arms. The earliest known relative of octopuses and vampire squid has been named after US President Joe Biden. Syllipsimopodi bideni had 10 arms, fins, and rows of suckers to clutch prey. It lived 328 million years ago and represents a new species of vampyropod the group of marine animals that includes modern octopuses and vampire squid. Picture: PA Wire

A newly discovered fossilized vampire squid has been named after the US president, Joe Biden, a team of paleontologists has announced.

The Syllipsimopodi bideni, which has been described as an “incredibly rare” fossil, was first dug up in Montana and then donated to the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada in 1988.