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

Scientists have discovered dozens of 132-million-year-old dinosaur tracks in South Africa’s Brenton Formation, the youngest ...

Mammals and dinosaurs coexisted on Earth until a catastrophic event 66 million years ago killed 75% of life on the planet.

Most people have encountered squid through their local seafood menu or field trip to an aquarium. Unlike octopuses, which are ...

Japanese paleontologists have established that the first finned octopuses, which lived in the Cretaceous period from 100 to ...

The formidable creature had long arms and powerful ​jaws and likely competed for food alongside marine reptiles and sharks.

New fossil evidence suggests a massive octopus may have been the true apex predator of the dinosaur-era seas, challenging ...

Italian authorities are investigating the deaths of at least 18 wolves and several other wild animals found in recent days in ...

During the Cretaceous, 19-metre-long predatory octopuses swam the seas, and evidence from their fossilised remains suggest ...

Indeed, at 62-feet-long, this colossal octopus could grow up to six feet longer than the mighty mosasaur, a predatory marine ...

A new species of coelacanth has been identified from a 150-year-old fossil housed at London’s Natural History Museum. Former University of Portsmouth palaeontology student Jack L. Norton located the ...

Learn how new technology revealed a long-forgotten museum specimen to be a missing link in coelacanth evolution.