A giant dinosaur fossil discovered in New Mexico is adding fresh evidence to a long-running debate about the origins of the ...

A UW-led research team uncovered the fossil of a 75-million-year-old mammal that was roughly the size of a golden hamster, ...

Some octopuses that lived over 72 million years ago were as long as whales. These huge predators may have been the largest invertebrates ever.

‘Kraken’ fossils show enormous, intelligent octopuses were top predators in Cretaceous seas Fossil jaws from colossal octopuses place them at the top of a prehistoric marine food chain ...

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Most octopus bodies don't fossilize - but their rock-hard beaks survived long enough to reveal something extraordinary.

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuters) - The Kraken is a huge tentacled sea monster from Norse folklore that drags ships and sailors down into the deep. During the age of dinosaurs, new ...

Southern Africa is world renowned for its fossil record of creatures that lived in the very distant past, including dinosaurs. But, about 182 million years ago, a huge eruption of lava covered much of ...

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

Around 66 million years ago, springtime in the Northern Hemisphere brought disaster and mass death to Earth in the form of a giant asteroid impact that triggered a global extinction. 164 ...