The Kraken is a huge tentacled sea monster from Norse folklore that drags ships and sailors down into the deep.

The top predator prowling the seas during the age of the dinosaurs 100 million years ago may have been an octopus.

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

Learn about a small rodent-like mammal whose descendants survived the extinction event that killed all non-avian dinosaurs.

A growing body of scientific discussion suggests that the age of dinosaurs may have played an indirect role in limiting human ...

A newly examined prehistoric shark from the age of dinosaurs provides surprising insights into the early evolution of modern sharks. It cannot be confidently assigned to any shark order that exists ...

Crocodile bones shed light on growth dynamics. Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan In biology and palaeontology (the study of extinct organisms) there are a few ways to estimate the age of an animal’s skeleton.

Evolution seems to follow a script more often than expected. Researchers found that distantly related butterflies and moths ...