While it seems like researchers are finding new fossils all the time, it is actually quite rare for an animal to become fossilized. The vast majority of all animals that ever lived do not become ...

The new species, named Microeledone galapagensis, has a blue hue, which is believed to be the rarest color in nature.

A famous fossil once considered the world’s oldest octopus has been reidentified as a distant relative of the nautilus, overturning decades of scientific belief. Published today in Proceedings of the ...

Seven hundred million years ago, a remarkable creature emerged for the first time. Though it may not have been much to look at by today's standards, the animal had a front and a back, a top and a ...

A 300-million-year-old fossil that earned a Guiness World Record in 2015 as the world's oldest octopus, has now been reclassified after new research published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

A famous 300-million-year-old fossil that was thought to be the world's oldest octopus – even featuring in the Guinness Book of Records – has turned out to be something else altogether. In what ...

Octopuses and squids carry the largest nervous systems of any invertebrate, and roughly two-thirds of an octopus’s neurons ...