Scientists scanned a fossil of the Jurassic cephalopod Vampyronassa, pictured here, and found clues that it was an active hunter. A. Lethiers, CR2P-SU Finding and studying fossils of Earth’s ...

For one unfortunate pterosaur looking for lunch 150 million years ago, calamari was a risky choice. A new cephalopod fossil, described last week in the journal Scientific Reports, was unearthed with a ...

Ammonites are a tale of two textures. The prehistoric cephalopods were composed of fleshy soft tissue (the living bit of the animals) and hard external shells, which, according to a paper published ...