Drawing lifelike birds starts with truly understanding their anatomy—feathers, beaks, feet, and skeletal structure. Artists who know these details can capture realistic poses and movement from any ...

Petrels and shearwaters are seabirds often referred to as “tubenoses,” a name derived from the distinctive tube-shaped ...

Scientists have identified two extinct finned octopus species from the Cretaceous period, including Nanaimoteuthis haggarti, ...

Gentoo penguins at Edinburgh Zoo court mates by choosing pebbles hand-painted by children at a local hospital.

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

Some 80 million years ago, the late Cretaceous oceans were patrolled by 17-meter mosasaurs, long-necked plesiosaurs, and ...

Paleontologists believe these early cephalopods were ‘huge, intelligent’ creatures that crushed prey with their powerful ...

The discovery challenges a 370-million-year-old assumption that only vertebrates could be top ocean predators.

The finned octopus lived alongside T. rex and may have been one of the top predators in the ancient ocean food chain.

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