Fearsome enormous creatures lay beneath the waves while dinosaurs roamed the Earth, now a new exhibition at London's Natural ...

Long before mammals dominated the land and even before the most famous dinosaurs appeared, Earth was home to a wide variety of powerful predators. While dinosaurs often get most of the attention when ...

A colossal new sea predator named Tylosaurus rex has been identified from fossils found in Texas, revealing a brutal 43-foot-long hunter that ruled ancient oceans 80 million years ago. The discovery ...

The now-extinct mollusk may have reached up to 60 feet in length, researchers have found Yohei Utsuki, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Hokkaido University A giant "kraken" octopus may have ...

Vasuki indicus was a gigantic prehistoric constrictor that may have surpassed Titanoboa as the largest snake ever discovered, reaching lengths of up to 15 meters and weighing nearly a ton. Living ...

‘Kraken’ fossils show enormous, intelligent octopuses were top predators in Cretaceous seas Fossil jaws from colossal octopuses place them at the top of a prehistoric marine food chain ...

Three hundred million years ago, dragonfly-like creatures with wingspans stretching 70 centimeters patrolled the skies of a world nothing like our own. These griffinflies, as paleontologists call them ...

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

A massive new dinosaur discovered in Thailand is rewriting Southeast Asia’s prehistoric history. The newly named Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis was a colossal long-necked sauropod that weighed around 27 ...