In a recent news report from ABC, it was revealed that scientists from the Ocean Exploration Trust captured on film one of ...

During the Cretaceous, 19-metre-long predatory octopuses swam the seas, and evidence from their fossilised remains suggest ...

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

In 2000, researchers described an odd fossil found not far from Chicago. It had a round body, finlike structures on one end and a tangle of arms. The fossil was classified as an octopus and named ...

The top predator prowling the seas during the age of the dinosaurs 100 million years ago may have been an octopus.

The California two-spot octopus is a solitary creature. How exactly they manage to find suitable mates has been one of the ocean’s best-kept secrets. Now scientists have discovered that male octopuses ...

Fossil jaws from finned octopuses challenge the longstanding belief that the apex oceanic predators of the Cretaceous were ...

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

A famous 300-million-year-old fossil previously believed to be the world’s oldest octopus actually may be a different animal entirely, new scans have revealed. The Pohlsepia mazonensis fossil was ...

"When we came in the next morning and his tank was empty, I was really surprised." ...

The discovery, using novel techniques to analyze fossilized jaws, details how colossal octopuses hunted the Late Cretaceous ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artistic reconstruction of the deathbed of Pohlsepia mazonensis, 300 million years ago. (Franz Anthony/Clements et al., Proc. R ...