If an alien intelligence were hiding somewhere on Earth, many scientists suspect it might look something like an octopus.

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At first, they looked like muddy chunks of ancient shell. But these 20-million-year-old fossil oysters had been slowly ...

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Using the Keck Observatory, astronomers measured the spins of dozens of giant planets and brown dwarfs orbiting distant stars ...

These goblin sharks are said to be 'ridiculously horrendous' and have faces that not even a 'mother would love'. Ouch.

A Virginia Tech-led team of international scientists has solved one of the last major mysteries in millipede evolution, ...

A Kansas boy searching for fossils during a geology club field trip stumbled onto something far bigger than expected: the remains of a 15-foot-long marine reptile that swam an ancient sea 85 million ...

Excavator Pikachu is ready to report for duty. The Pokémon Fossil Museum first opened in Japan in 2021, an initial collaboration between the National Museum of Nature and Science of Japan, four ...

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 ...