The Jiangchuan Biota indicates that we may have misjudged the Cambrian “explosion” of complex life.
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 ...
Beneath the dry farmland of New South Wales lies a hidden window into a lost rainforest teeming with life from 11-16 million ...
A new study has overturned decades of belief that the Ushikawa fossils were among Japan’s oldest human remains. Advanced CT ...
Rare fossil finds show colossal octopuses were among the top ocean predators during the Cretaceous Period, according to a new ...
A fossil discovery in Mistelgau, Northern Bavaria, Germany, reveals that the last representatives of the giant ichthyosaurs of the genus Temnodontosaurus survived longer in the Southwest German Basin ...
According to CNN, Japanese researchers used recently discovered fossils to compare jaw sizes with modern species and found that these ancient cephalopods reached lengths of 23 to 62 feet, with the ...
Tiny dinosaur fossils that puzzled scientists for over 20 years have finally revealed their true identity. Rather than ...
Rare 450-million-year-old fossil, Paleocanna tentaculum, that provides a clearer link between ancient cnidarians and modern ...
What can bones tell us about life millions of years ago? A paleobiologist decodes chemical clues to uncover how animals lived ...
An analysis of fossil jaws belonging to octopuses that lived between 100 million and 72 million years ago, during the Late ...