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 ...

New fossil evidence from Japan and Canada suggests that giant octopus-like creatures, possibly up to 19 metres long, prowled the Late Cretaceous oceans alongside marine reptiles. The study, published ...

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 ...

The ancient cephalopod, Nanaimoteuthis haggarti, appears to have been an apex predator that rivaled mosasaurs to rule prehistoric seas. A sketch of the giant octopus of the genus Nanaimoteuthis from ...