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

The discovery, using novel techniques to analyze fossilized jaws, details how colossal octopuses hunted the Late Cretaceous depths, competing with apex predators.

An analysis of fossil jaws belonging to octopuses that lived between 100 million and 72 million years ago, during the Late ...

It’s a huge gap. And so that big gap got researchers sort of questioning, ‘Is this thing actually an octopus?’” ...

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

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

For 25 years, a hand-sized sea creature embedded in Illinois rock held the title of the world’s oldest octopus. Now, thanks ...

A rare fossil discovery is shedding light on the “missing years” of early sponge evolution. Scientists found a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures ...

The assemblage suggests that the ancestors of some of today's animal groups may have arisen before the famed Cambrian ...

Following the worst mass extinction event on Earth, the land was not entirely barren of life. In the wake of this cataclysm, ...