The massive invertebrates may have been top predators, according to an analysis of their fossilized jaws. The work suggests ...

This octopus survives in plain sight. Here’s how it adapts its body in real time to mirror dangerous species and navigate one ...

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

This unassuming octopus pairs bacterial chemistry with evolutionary efficiency to deliver one of the most powerful defenses ...

Octopuses' earliest relatives may have been gigantic predators hunting during the age of dinosaurs, according to new Hokkaido ...

The ancient cephalopod, Nanaimoteuthis haggarti, appears to have been an apex predator that rivaled mosasaurs to rule ...

Just like vertebrates, cephalopods — such as octopuses and squid — have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to ...

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

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

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

Conner is a professional crab fisherman who fishes off the coast of Florida. He's pulled up tens of thousands of these traps ...