The largest predators in Earth’s oceans are typically vertebrates, so when palaeontologists recently announced they’d found ...

Shelby Van Pelt is the author of the hit novel "Remarkably Bright Creatures" about a giant Pacific octopus who develops a ...

Netflix dropped a lot of content in the spring of 2026, but there's one that stood out for many; we're talking about Remarkably Bright Creatures.

Giant, intelligent octopuses may have once ruled the ancient seas. Modern octopuses are known for their intelligence and ...

The late Cretaceous marine food web may have had a terrifying kraken-like creature among its top ranks. A new analysis of ancient octopus jaws suggests that many of the animals were bone-crunching ...

For decades, experts believed that the largest and most powerful predators in ancient oceans were vertebrates such as large fish and marine reptiles. Invertebrates like octopuses and squid were ...

The Kraken is a huge tentacled sea monster from Norse folklore that drags ships and sailors down into the deep. During the age of dinosaurs, ‌new research shows, there existed a creature as close to a ...

'We show that these animals reached total lengths of up to nearly 20 metres, which may have surpassed the size of large marine reptiles' You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign ...

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 ...

A GIANT 62ft octopus likened to the mythical kraken that swallowed up ships actually roamed the seas in the dinosaur era, new research shows. The gargantuan sea monster was an apex predator when it ...

There was a time when sailors would whisper among themselves about the Kraken - a legendary sea monster thought to exist in the depths of the ocean, able to pull entire ships down into the void. It ...

An alumni group affiliated with Western Washington University has shared images of a giant Pacific octopus that washed ashore recently in Bellingham. "Pictured is a local Marine Life Center staff ...