They stopped at Kentucky road cuts searching for Ordovician fossils from a time when the area was underwater. At first, the finds looked like ordinary shell fossils scattered through the rock. Then ...

Ancient ocean giants: Fossilized jaws from Japan suggest octopuses up to 62 feet long lived about 100 million years ago, rivaling the size of mosasaurs. Predator role debated: Jaw wear patterns hint ...

The largest predators in Earth’s oceans are typically vertebrates, so when palaeontologists recently announced they’d found ...

Several new marine species have made their way to Southwest Florida. Many popular species such as the Queen Conch, Horse ...

Learn how egg size may help explain why ammonites didn’t survive the end-Cretaceous extinction 66 million years ago, while ...

Some of the most beautiful creatures to grace the ancient seas, the ammonites, disappeared in the end-Cretaceous mass ...

Modern octopuses are known as escape artists of the sea, soft-bodied, elusive, and almost impossible to pin down. But a new ...

For 350 million years, ammonites were the resilient masterpieces of the ancient seas. They survived the Great Dying of the ...

Giant, intelligent octopuses may have once ruled the ancient seas. Modern octopuses are known for their intelligence and ...

Fossils fascinated Sir David Attenborough throughout his childhood. The BBC retraces the steps of Sir David's formative ...

Just like vertebrates, cephalopods—such as octopuses and squid—have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to them ...