Locked inside fist-sized lumps of ancient rock from Japan and Vancouver Island, paleontologists found something that almost ...

The beak was barely the size of a human fist, but the animal it belonged to may have stretched longer than a humpback whale.

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 ...

Study of fossilised beaks shows patterns of wear and suggests some ancient species were up to 19 metres long Giant “kraken-like” octopuses that used powerful beaks to crunch through bones of prey were ...

A study describes two species with powerful beaks, and possibly intelligent, that hunted in the Cretaceous seas ...

Whale-sized, monstrous octopuses prowled the seas during the Age of Dinosaurs, snatching prey with their huge tentacles and crunching them with powerful jaws, fossils from B.C. and Japan suggest.

There was a time when sailors would whisper among themselves about the Kraken - a legendary sea monster thought to exist in the depths of the ocean, able to pull entire ships down into the void. It ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's reconstruction shows the earliest known octopus, which grew to be 19 metres long, based on the size of its fossil beak ...