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

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

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 ...

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

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Goblet-shaped sea jelly relatives with miniature “arms.” A plump, legless creature resembling a sausage. Long, wormlike animals tipped with flat “holdfast” discs for anchoring to the seafloor.

A newly discovered fossil site in southwest China has transformed our understanding of how complex animal life emerged on Earth, revealing that many key animal groups had already evolved before the ...

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

He opens the video by talking about how fossil hunting can make you feel like a kid flipping through old dinosaur books again. Then the creek actually delivers on that promise. A tiny goblin shark ...

Thousands of years ago in a cave on Hispaniola, an unusual chain of events left behind a rare scientific treasure: bees nesting inside fossilized bones. After giant barn owls repeatedly brought prey ...

A site in southwestern China holds a wide array of strange life-forms that emerged prior to the Cambrian explosion, and it pushes back the origin of complex life by millions of years. When you ...

Around 540 million years ago, the ocean erupted with complex life: Creatures rapidly transformed from simple, soft-bodied, ocean-floor-dwelling animals into bodies we might recognize today—animals ...