The massive invertebrates may have been top predators, according to an analysis of their fossilized jaws. The work suggests ...

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

Tiny dinosaur fossils that puzzled scientists for over 20 years have finally revealed their true identity. Rather than ...

Washington is full of earthly treasures. Local rockhound experts share their tips for how to find and collect agates, quartz ...

A newly discovered prehistoric mammal may hold clues to how life survived the dinosaur-killing extinction. The tiny species, ...

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

The Jiangchuan Biota indicates that we may have misjudged the Cambrian “explosion” of complex life.

An A-frame cabin at Fossil Butte National Monument was the home for a fossil miner as he discovered Wyoming artifacts. It ...

New analysis of 407-million-year-old Prototaxites fossils from Scotland’s Rhynie chert suggests they may represent an entirely extinct eukaryotic lineage, structurally and chemically distinct from ...

Paleontologists have spotted unusual ball-like shapes in 80-million-year-old marine fossils, pointing to a design that feels ...

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

During the same period, dinosaurs such as T rex, Triceratops, and Velociraptor dominated life on land, while these octopuses ...