The kraken: a giant squid or octopus of myth, seems to have swam in the Cretaceous oceans, a Japanese study shows.

Cephalopods such as octopus and squid evolutionarily diverged from mollusks like slugs and snails. These animals have elaborate compact nervous systems located within specialized arm appendages, which ...

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

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

Squid and cuttlefish, though often confused, diverged around 100 million years ago. These "ten-limbed" cephalopods survived ...

Cephalopod evolution has long had a missing chapter in its story: how did squid-like ancestors give rise to today's octopuses? The answer, it turns out, was floating in the deep sea all along. With ...

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

“These findings revise the view of the Cretaceous ocean as a world dominated only by large vertebrate predators,” study ...

INVZMAI copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "Largely shell-less relatives of clams and snails, the marine mollusks in the class Cephalopoda--Greek for head-foot --are ...