New research highlights that Troodon, a small predatory dinosaur, had one of the highest brain-to-body size ratios among dinosaurs, rivaling modern flightless birds like emus and ostriches. Its brain ...

A kraken-like octopus the size of a lorry prowled Earth’s oceans back when dinosaurs ruled the land, new fossil discoveries have suggested. Scientists have believed that sharks and giant marine ...

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 ...

A badly mangled dinosaur skull, once forgotten in a drawer, turned out to be a rare and important discovery. Reconstructed by a Virginia Tech student, it revealed a new species of early carnivorous ...

A rare fossil discovery is shedding light on the “missing years” of early sponge evolution. Scientists found a 550-million-year-old sponge that likely lacked hard skeletal parts, explaining why ...