New analyses of fossilized jaws reveal that massive, kraken-like octopuses once hunted alongside other marine predators.

Scientists have discovered that anaerobic microbes played a vital role in preserving a 183‑million‑year‑old ichthyosaur fossil in striking three‑dimensional detail. The microbes produced sulfide ...

Paleocanna tentaculum’ was more closely related to today’s marine invertebrates than its prehistoric relatives.

Home to dramatic rock formations and otherworldly landscapes, New Mexico’s Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness is an alternative to Turkey’s Cappadocia in the U.S.

A green shift away from hydrocarbons may reduce reliance on oil and thus chokepoints like Hormuz, but it won’t necessarily ...

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If you trace the animal family tree back through the fossil record, the trail usually goes cold about 539 million years ago. Before this boundary—the start of the famous Cambrian explosion—multicelled ...

WITH the Middle East in flames and a fifth of the world’s supplies of oil and gas in limbo thanks to the uncertain status of the Strait of Hormuz, it’s tempting to imagine that a clean-energy world ...

Peter Dinklage has joined the cast of FX’s “Alien: Earth” Season 2, Variety has confirmed. While his character details are still kept under wraps, the “Game of Thrones” Emmy winner will be a series ...

For many fans, the behind-the-scenes strife of Alien 3 is as well-known as its on-screen excess: This is the movie that almost permanently pushed David Fincher out of Hollywood. Fincher inherited a ...

In 2000, researchers described an odd fossil found not far from Chicago. It had a round body, finlike structures on one end and a tangle of arms. The fossil was classified as an octopus and named ...