New research has uncovered fossil evidence showing that giant finned octopuses, some up to 62 feet long, were apex predators during the Cretaceous period. The discovery challenges long-held ...

A newly discovered prehistoric mammal reveals how small, adaptable species may have survived Earth’s deadliest extinction ...

A popular Derby attraction suffered a loss this weekend after a lightning strike set a 100-foot dinosaur on fire, leading to ...

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

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

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

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

Giant, fearsome octopuses may have once ruled the ancient seas, according to new research that flips the script on their ...

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

A fossil discovery in Mistelgau, Northern Bavaria, Germany, reveals that the last representatives of the giant ichthyosaurs of the genus Temnodontosaurus survived longer in the Southwest German Basin ...

New analyses of fossilized jaws reveal that massive, kraken-like octopuses once hunted alongside other marine predators.

Researchers studied the jaws of 15 ancient octopus fossils to determine how big the creatures may have been. View on euronews ...