Octopuses' earliest relatives may have been gigantic predators hunting during the age of dinosaurs, according to new Hokkaido University research.

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 mythology. However, new fossil evidence reveals that massive “kraken”-like cephalopods ruled the seas during the Cretaceous period,

During the Cretaceous, 19-metre-long predatory octopuses swam the seas, and evidence from their fossilised remains suggest they may have been highly intelligent hunters

Scientists have identified Spinosaurus mirabilis, a new dinosaur species discovered deep in Niger’s Sahara, far from ancient coastlines. The find challenges long-held beliefs that spinosaurids were primarily aquatic, suggesting they thrived in inland ...

WASHINGTON — It may have been suicidal for a predator to go after a healthy adult Brachiosaurus, a behemoth weighing perhaps 60 tons that was a member of the long-necked group of dinosaurs called sauropods that included the largest land animals ever ...