“It turns out the world’s most famous octopus fossil was never an octopus at all,” Clements says in a statement. “It was a ...

The mystery of a controversial fossil, once believed to be the oldest known octopus, has finally been resolved. First ...

A remarkable new discovery is shedding light on one of the greatest survival stories in Earth's history, and answering a ...

A 289-million-year-old mummified fossil of Captorhinus aguti, discovered in a Richards Spur, Oklahoma cave, has revealed the ...

Researchers argue that a newly examined specimen found decades ago in Utah provides new clues to the ancestors of ...

The year 2000 was, in so many ways, momentous. It was a new millennium, which always come with a doomsday prophecy or two; we ...

The complete absence of these creatures in later strata suggests they might have vanished in a mass-extinction event that ...

A new analysis of a specimen found more than 40 years ago reveals the oldest known chelicerate, defined by its pair of pincer ...

Scientists have found evidence that a 300-million-year-old sea creature previously thought to be the world's oldest octopus ...