Fossil research shows that an enormous "kraken-like" octopus stalked the seas during the Cretaceous period, competing with large apex predators.

Researchers discovered evidence of enormous Kraken-like creatures who hunted in the seas some 100 million years ago, ...

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

Scientists just discovered a new species of lizard hiding in the Australian desert and there may be fewer than 20 left ...

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

Wild bumble bees are in decline, and various parasites may be a major cause. But there hasn’t been any data on whether ...

Though the idea of roaming around boneless is foreign to us as humans, it is actually the state of the vast majority of life ...

After years of collapse, seagrass in Florida’s Mosquito Lagoon rebounded unexpectedly following 2022 hurricanes, offering new ...

Scientists are debating the classification of threatened mollusks that an Indigenous community relies on for their way of ...

This path forms the basis of the new impossible shape, which is a continuous multilevel staircase modeled on a shape called a ...

There are millions of different types of living things on Earth. In order to keep track of them all, scientists put living things into groups based on characteristics that they have that are the same.

Brittlestars, sea anemones and a catshark among new-to-science species collected during expedition off the Queensland coast Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news ...