Around 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs were killed by an enormous asteroid that hit what is today Chicxulub, Mexico. But a second asteroid struck during that same era at the Nadir crater off the ...

The top predator prowling the seas during the age of the dinosaurs 100 million years ago may have been an octopus.

New analyses of fossilized jaws reveal that massive, kraken-like octopuses once hunted alongside other marine predators.

Learn about a small rodent-like mammal whose descendants survived the extinction event that killed all non-avian dinosaurs.

The Kraken is a huge tentacled sea monster from Norse folklore that drags ships and sailors down into the deep.

Scientists from Princeton and Yale have corrected the timeline for dinosaur emergence, moving the date to 250 million years ...

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Crocodile bones shed light on growth dynamics. Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan In biology and palaeontology (the study of extinct organisms) there are a few ways to estimate the age of an animal’s skeleton.