Beneath the surface of the North Sea, a long-hidden prehistoric forest has been found, revealing many new possibilities for the environment and climate of ancient Europe. By using sediment collected ...

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 ...

Move over, megalodon, there’s a new contender for most terrifying marine predator of all time. An analysis of fossil jaws belonging to octopuses that lived between 100 million and 72 million years ago ...

Agriculture reached the coast of southern Denmark around 4000 BCE, but these prehistoric Scandinavians continued to fish and ...

Marine archaeologists pioneered a new imaging technique that allowed them to reconstruct various phases in the life of this ...

Apple TV+ has announced Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, a sweeping new installment of the award-winning natural history series from executive producers Jon Favreau and Mike Gunton. The series is produced ...

More than 500 million years ago, during what is known as the Cambrian period, the seas and oceans on Earth were filled with a ...

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Octopuses are clever creatures, capable of hiding themselves by changing colours, fitting into any space and being very careful not to put themselves at risk. But the ancestors of modern octopuses ...

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 ...

Scientists discovered that some of Earth’s supposed earliest animal fossils were actually giant ancient microbes.

An amateur fossil hunter who found a rare fragment from the world's oldest marine crocodile said she thought it was a piece of wood with nails driven through it. The upper jawbone fossil, found during ...