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

Armed with a spring-loaded club and a devastating ‘double whammy’ strike, this shrimp is one of evolution’s strangest ...

The jaws are small enough to hold in your hand. But the animal they belonged to may have stretched 62 feet from arm tip to ...

Ancient giants found: Two new cirrate octopus species from 100–72 million years ago may have spanned up to 19 meters, making ...

Can you imagine spending your entire life without ever touching the floor? Well, that’s the reality for this octopus. Pelagic octopuses go their entire lives without ever touching the shore or the ...

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

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

Stories have long been told about the Kraken, the fearsome giant sea monster of centuries-old myth that could wrap its tentacles around an entire ship and drown scores of sailors in the process. And ...

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

Lord of the Flies, ScarJo as an alien, and Alfred Molina as an octopus (again?) are all new to Netflix in May.

This octopus survives in plain sight. Here’s how it adapts its body in real time to mirror dangerous species and navigate one ...

Fossil jaws reveal giant prehistoric octopuses may have ruled ancient oceans as powerful apex predators during the Cretaceous ...