Extinct cephalopods might have been up to 19 metres in length and probably dined high up the food chain in ancient oceans.

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Unlike most of its invertebrate peers, octopuses gave up protective shells... But it seems that the sacrifice was totally ...

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

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The Memphis police chief said a chance discovery led investigators to more than a dozen bones belonging to three children ...

The discovery, using novel techniques to analyze fossilized jaws, details how colossal octopuses hunted the Late Cretaceous ...

It looked like something plucked from a fairy tale — a fleshy, violet disc sitting in the sand along the Southern California shoreline. One beachgoer thought she had stumbled upon some kind of purple ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of a "golden orb" found thousands of feet underwater by researchers from the National ...

The mystery of the 'golden egg' discovered at the bottom of the ocean has finally been solved three years after the startling ...

The Memphis Zoo is home to 3,500-plus animals. Here are some of our favorites that don't always get the spotlight.