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

Some octopuses that lived over 72 million years ago were as long as whales. These huge predators may have been the largest ...

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

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

The ancient cephalopod, Nanaimoteuthis haggarti, appears to have been an apex predator that rivaled mosasaurs to rule ...

That’s as new evidence has found that a ‘kraken-like’ octopus was once roaming the seas, according to scientists. The Kraken ...

For thousands of years, sailors told stories of the Kraken—a massive, many-armed sea monster said to drag entire ships beneath the waves. Ancient Greeks wrote of similar beasts, Norse fishermen swore ...

The discovery, based on novel techniques to analyse fossilised beaks, details how colossal octopuses prowled the depths ...