Unlike most of its invertebrate peers, octopuses gave up protective shells... But it seems that the sacrifice was totally ...

The discovery, using novel techniques to analyze fossilized jaws, details how colossal octopuses hunted the Late Cretaceous ...

A close inspection of 27 fossil jaws from finned octopuses challenge the longstanding belief that the apex oceanic predators ...

The ancient cephalopod, Nanaimoteuthis haggarti, appears to have been an apex predator that rivaled mosasaurs to rule ...

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

For 25 years, a hand-sized sea creature embedded in Illinois rock held the title of the world’s oldest octopus. Now, thanks ...

Researchers say giant “kraken-like” octopus relatives, some stretching nearly 19 meters, likely competed with apex predators ...

A team cracked the case by examining the fossil using a synchrotron, which produces beams of light by accelerating electrons ...

You’ve probably seen it by now — that Instagram video posted in April 2026 of an octopus hurling rocks at another octopus, ...

Yes, female octopuses throw things at pushy males-but it's not just them.

Whale-sized, monstrous octopuses prowled the seas during the Age of Dinosaurs, snatching prey with their huge tentacles and ...

More than two decades after scientists identified a fossil as the world’s oldest octopus — officials now say it wasn’t one at ...