Some 80 million years ago, the late Cretaceous oceans were patrolled by 17-meter mosasaurs, long-necked plesiosaurs, and ...

Today's octopuses are intelligent, remarkably flexible animals that lurk in reefs, hide in crevices, or drift through the ...

A remarkably preserved, mummified reptile from 289 million years ago is rewriting what we know about how animals first ...

‘Kraken’ fossils show enormous, intelligent octopuses were top predators in Cretaceous seas Fossil jaws from colossal ...

Mammals and dinosaurs coexisted on Earth until a catastrophic event 66 million years ago killed 75% of life on the planet.

New research suggests giant octopuses up to 19 metres long may have ruled ancient oceans 100 million years ago, challenging ...

The ancient cephalopod, Nanaimoteuthis haggarti, appears to have been an apex predator that rivaled mosasaurs to rule ...

A study describes two species with powerful beaks, and possibly intelligent, that hunted in the Cretaceous seas ...

A jaw tip worn down by nearly a tenth does not sound like much until you picture what it means. Chipping, cracking, scratches ...

The field of gut microbiota research has undergone rapid expansion, uncovering the intricate relationship between microbial communities in the vertebrate ...

Ancient Earth once buzzed with enormous dragonfly-like insects, and scientists long thought high oxygen levels made their ...

Some octopuses that lived over 72 million years ago were as long as whales. These huge predators may have been the largest ...