This ancient cephalopod, often described as a “living fossil,” was sighted in late November 2024 during an underwater operation near the German Channel in Palau. The sighting, which marks the ...

Tusoteuthis was a giant squid nearly equal in size to those that ply the oceans today—with their tentacles stretched out, the ancient cephalopods may have measured 25 to 35 feet (8 to 11 meters ...

These cephalopods make for ideal index fossils ... Ammonite fossils also reveal information about ancient climates, as the sites where they are unearthed must have once been covered by ancient ...

Their over 4 million years of ancient lineage make them one of the ... It lacks intelligence like its modern cephalopod relatives but compensates with a nearly indestructible evolutionary blueprint.

A remarkable discovery in Morocco has shed light on a mysterious ancient marine predator ... small prey such as fish and soft ...

How can the soft bodies of coleoid cephalopods so aptly hide in their environment? Why must they? What cells and specialized organs make such crypsis possible for one of the older evolutionary ...