Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sketch of the giant octopus of the genus Nanaimoteuthis from the Late Cretaceous. A new trove of fossilized beaks reveals that ...

Locked inside fist-sized lumps of ancient rock from Japan and Vancouver Island, paleontologists found something that almost never survives the fossil record: the jaws of giant octopuses. A team led by ...

Mesozoic seas were full of marine monsters. There were snaggle-toothed fish, shell-crushing sharks, and, of course, enormous mosasaurs. Now, researchers have revealed another dangerous denizen of the ...