Tiny plankton shells used to reconstruct past polar ocean temperatures may contain two different chemical stories, a new ...

Six of the biggest oil and gas giants will make almost $3,000 in profits every second this year, a new report finds, as ...

At this fossil park in Mississippi, visitors will be able to dig for fossils from 84 million-year-old animals that once lived ...

A new study finds that shells of the polar plankton Neogloboquadrina pachyderma can record two distinct chemical signals, potentially distorting reconstructions of past ocean temperatures. Researchers ...

Fossils in China reveal early life that predates animals and show that ancient ecosystems were more complex than previously ...

‘Kraken’ fossils show enormous, intelligent octopuses were top predators in Cretaceous seas Fossil jaws from colossal ...

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

Rare fossil finds show colossal octopuses were among the top ocean predators during the Cretaceous Period, according to a new ...

Extinct cephalopods might have been up to 19 metres in length and probably dined high up the food chain in ancient oceans.

Some 80 million years ago, the late Cretaceous oceans were patrolled by 17-meter mosasaurs, long-necked plesiosaurs, and ...

Learn about the modern platypus' ancient ancestor, which swam in the same inland lakes as dolphins and had teeth tough enough ...

For nearly 25 years, a hand-sized fossil pulled from the rocks of Illinois held a remarkable title: the oldest known octopus ...