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High-altitude limestone layers reveal the fossilized remains of marine organisms that once thrived in the prehistoric Tethys ...

Some of the most beautiful creatures to grace the ancient seas, the ammonites, disappeared in the end-Cretaceous mass extinction that finished off the dinosaurs 65.5 million years ago. "It's a tragic ...

Fossils fascinated Sir David Attenborough throughout his childhood. The BBC retraces the steps of Sir David's formative experiences roaming the British countryside.

You never know what sits behind closed doors. Take, for example, The Co-op, Mineral and Fossil Galleries on Oracle Road. Several wholesale and retail outlets are housed there but inside these outlets ...

Most people have encountered squid through their local seafood menu or field trip to an aquarium. Unlike octopuses, which are named for their eight arms, squid have 10 individual appendages. They ...

Giant 19-meter-long octopuses resembling the mythical kraken may have rivaled the apex predators of the Late Cretaceous oceans, according to new paleontological research involving ground-breaking ...

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

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

Unlike most of its invertebrate peers, octopuses gave up protective shells... But it seems that the sacrifice was totally worth it.

‘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 ...