The creature measured up to 62 feet and shared the seas with mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, and great-white-sized sharks.

During the age of dinosaurs, new research ​shows, there existed a creature as close to a real-life Kraken as you could ...

A long-standing mystery in southern Africa’s fossil record is beginning to unravel. After massive lava flows 182 million ...

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

Scientists uncover a giant “Kraken-like” octopus that ruled Cretaceous seas, reaching 61 feet and competing with sharks and ...

A close inspection of 27 fossil jaws from finned octopuses challenge the longstanding belief that the apex oceanic predators ...

Extinct cephalopods might have been up to 19 metres in length and probably dined high up the food chain in ancient oceans.

An international research team has rediscovered a dinosaur tracksite in the Saijrakh area of northern Mongolia. The site was ...

Octopuses' earliest relatives may have been gigantic predators hunting during the age of dinosaurs, according to new Hokkaido ...

The kraken: a giant squid or octopus of myth, seems to have swam in the Cretaceous oceans, a Japanese study shows.

Rare fossil finds show colossal octopuses were among the top ocean predators during the Cretaceous Period, according to a new ...