They look slow. They look round. They look almost a little comical on land. But hippos are intensely territorial, ...

Massive octopuses, some as long as 62 feet, once roamed the oceans during the time of the dinosaurs. New fossil discoveries ...

A kraken-like octopus that could grow to more than 18 metres long may have been one of the fiercest predators in the oceans, ...

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

There was a time when sailors would whisper among themselves about the Kraken - a legendary sea monster thought to exist in ...

A study has suggested the possibility that the sea monster "Kraken" from Nordic legends may have actually existed. During the ...

A close inspection of 27 fossil jaws from finned octopuses challenge the longstanding belief that the apex oceanic predators ...

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

World Book Day is here and Netflix again has a stack of page-to-screen adaptations on offer, including the upcoming ...

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

Diving in the Great African Seaforest, with its tightly packed towering kelp stipes that can rise up to 9 meters, or 30 feet, ...

See what’s new at Farmington Public Library this April 2026, including adult and youth books, large print, nonfiction, ...