The discovery of a collection of about 700 fossils known as the Jiangchuan Biota gives scientists a better understanding of ...

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 ...

A remarkable fossil from China shows a prehistoric predator right after a massive meal. Inside a 5-meter-long ...

A strange set of ancient fossils is forcing scientists to rethink one of paleontology’s most stubborn assumptions: that ...

For decades, a collection of fossil fragments sat forgotten in museum drawers — a paleontological “cold case” waiting for ...

The creature measured up to 62 feet and shared the seas with mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, and great-white-sized sharks.

A rare fossil discovery is shedding light on the “missing years” of early sponge evolution. Scientists found a ...

Researchers discovered evidence of enormous Kraken-like creatures who hunted in the seas some 100 million years ago, ...

Paleontologists believe these early cephalopods were ‘huge, intelligent’ creatures that crushed prey with their powerful ...

Giant, fearsome octopuses may have once ruled the ancient seas, according to new research that flips the script on their ...

If you trace the animal family tree back through the fossil record, the trail usually goes cold about 539 million years ago. Before this boundary—the start of the famous Cambrian explosion—multicelled ...

Scientists have found evidence that a 300-million-year-old sea creature previously thought to be the world's oldest octopus ...