More than two decades after a skull was pulled from rock in northeastern Mexico, scientists have finally put a name to the creature it belonged to — and it turns out to be a species entirely new to ...

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

Long before rising seas swallowed Doggerland beneath the North Sea, this lost landscape may have been a surprisingly lush and ...

Beneath the surface of the North Sea, a long-hidden prehistoric forest has been found, revealing many new possibilities for ...

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Long before Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario became the defining waters of North America ...

Spanish researchers say they identified 124 shipwrecks dating from the ancient world to WWI in the 29-square-mile Bay of ...

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

It was more than it was Kraken-ed up to be. An octopus the size of the Hollywood Sign might seem like a monster from Greek ...

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

A vast prehistoric forest, Doggerland, has been discovered beneath the North Sea, revealing a thriving ecosystem that ...