For years, this fossil seemed to tell a thrilling story. Here was an animal from more than 300 million years ago that ...

Scientific knowledge is constantly updated, revised, or reshuffled as new insights emerge. One particular fossil was thought ...

Scientists utilized 3D X-ray imaging to uncover new details that challenged previous ideas about prehistoric marine life.

Scientists are working to close the gap with an emerging discipline called conservation genomics: sequencing an organism’s ...

To solve this puzzle, Thomas Clements, a paleontologist at the University of Leicester, and his colleagues put this supposed ...

A 300-million-year-old tentacled sea creature has lost its crown as the world’s oldest octopus, after scientists found ...

Scientists have found evidence that a 300-million-year-old sea creature previously thought to be the world’s oldest octopus ...

The hectocotylus is both a reproductive organ and a sensory organ, a rare combination in animals, new research suggests ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- A beloved octopus at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach has died, officials announced Wednesday. The giant Pacific octopus named Ghost died on Tuesday. Back in ...