The ancient cephalopod, Nanaimoteuthis haggarti, appears to have been an apex predator that rivaled mosasaurs to rule ...
The discovery of a collection of about 700 fossils known as the Jiangchuan Biota gives scientists a better understanding of ...
A rare fossil discovery is shedding light on the “missing years” of early sponge evolution. Scientists found a ...
Rare fossil finds show colossal octopuses were among the top ocean predators during the Cretaceous Period, according to a new ...
Rare 450-million-year-old fossil, Paleocanna tentaculum, that provides a clearer link between ancient cnidarians and modern ...
The assemblage suggests that the ancestors of some of today's animal groups may have arisen before the famed Cambrian explosion ...
A fossil discovery in Mistelgau, Northern Bavaria, Germany, reveals that the last representatives of the giant ichthyosaurs of the genus Temnodontosaurus survived longer in the Southwest German Basin ...
"It's a huge gap. And so that big gap got researchers sort of questioning, ‘Is this thing actually an octopus?'" ...
In the aftermath of Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event, one unlikely survivor rose to dominate a shattered world: ...
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The world's oldest 'octopus' fossil isn't an octopus after all—here's what led to the discovery
For 25 years, a hand-sized sea creature embedded in Illinois rock held the title of the world's oldest octopus. Now, thanks ...
Fossils from giant tortoises, armadillos and other Ice Age-era species challenge previous assumptions about the region’s ...
An A-frame cabin at Fossil Butte National Monument was the home for a fossil miner as he discovered Wyoming artifacts. It ...
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