The beak was barely the size of a human fist, but the animal it belonged to may have stretched longer than a humpback whale.

The now-extinct mollusk may have reached up to 60 feet in length, researchers have found ...

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A video shows a diver in Indonesia spending an entire dive convincing a tiny coconut octopus to swap its plastic cup home for a proper shell.

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

Unlike most of its invertebrate peers, octopuses gave up protective shells... But it seems that the sacrifice was totally worth it. Reading time 2 minutes Hundreds of millions of years ago, life ...

Octopuses’ earliest relatives that lived 100 million years ago may have been "gigantic" predators that hunted alongside dinosaurs, according to new research. Although scientists previously believed ...

It was more than it was Kraken-ed up to be. An octopus the size of the Hollywood Sign might seem like a monster from Greek mythology. However, new fossil evidence reveals that massive “kraken”-like ...

You may have spotted a viral Instagram video posted in April 2026 showing an octopus hurling rocks at another octopus, along with a claim that females throw debris at males who won’t leave them alone.

The ancient cephalopod, Nanaimoteuthis haggarti, appears to have been an apex predator that rivaled mosasaurs to rule prehistoric seas. A sketch of the giant octopus of the genus Nanaimoteuthis from ...

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