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

About 360 million years ago, a huge armored fish patrolled a shallow sea that once covered what is now Cleveland. This animal, known as Dunkleosteus terrelli, has long held a place among the most ...

‘Kraken’ fossils show enormous, intelligent octopuses were top predators in Cretaceous seas Fossil jaws from colossal ...

It was more than it was Kraken-ed up to be. An octopus the size of the Hollywood Sign might seem like a monster from Greek ...

The legend of the Kraken likely stems from real encounters with giant squids, deep-sea predators equipped with powerful ...

The intense wear observed on the beaks is ​consistent, the researchers said, with repeated crushing of hard structures such as bones and shells, indicative of a predator that hunted large fish, ...

The Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach, Fla., announced that it released a loggerhead sea turtle named Pyari, who lost a left fin, into the ocean Experts said they believe she had an encounter ...

Exocoetid flying fish face one of nature’s most punishing survival puzzles: they launch themselves out of the ocean to dodge predators below, only to be snatched mid-air by seabirds above.

The discovery, based on novel techniques to analyse fossilised beaks, details how colossal octopuses prowled the depths ...

The cataclysmic end-Permian mass extinction and extreme global warming prompted the emergence of modern marine ecosystems at the beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs (or Mesozoic era), some 252 million ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock The unusual appearance of a large predator off the coast of southwest Florida has marine experts excited ...

The ocean is still one of the biggest mysteries on Earth, and the deeper you go, the stranger it gets. Far below the surface, where sunlight can’t reach, lives a world full of creatures that look more ...