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7+ hour, 9+ min ago  (509+ words) New paleontological research has identified ancient octopus species reaching up to 19 meters in length that acted as apex predators in Cretaceous oceans between 72 million and 100 million years ago. Analysis of fossilized beaks reveals these creatures likely preyed on large vertebrates,…...

9+ hour, 33+ min ago  (427+ words) Amateur fossil hunter Heather Salt holding the world's oldest crocodile fossil. (Lyme Regis Museum via SWNS) The world's oldest crocodile fossil has been found during a walk on the Jurassic Coast. Amateur fossil hunter Heather Salt initially mistook the find…...

11+ hour, 45+ min ago  (791+ words) Doggerland stretched across the North Sea floor, linking Britain to Europe in a landscape of rivers and woodlands during the last Ice Age. Sedimentary DNA analysis has brought its ancient forests back to light, showing temperate ecosystems thriving over 16, 000 years…...

58+ min ago  (456+ words) image: An illustration of Cimolodon desosai on the tree with a fruit in its mouth. It was about the size of a golden hamster, the researchers said. It likely scampered on the ground and in the trees and ate fruits…...

1+ hour, 38+ min ago  (497+ words) Paleontologists in Brazil have identified a new genus and species of hyperodapedontine rhynchosaur " an extinct lineage of beaked, herbivorous reptiles " based on a partial skull and lower jaws recovered from Triassic rocks. Named Isodapedon varzealis, the species appears to represent…...

2+ hour, 39+ min ago  (436+ words) New analyses of fossilized jaws reveal that massive, kraken-like octopuses once hunted alongside other marine predators. They boasted eight arms and long bodies that extended more than 60 feet, rivaling other carnivorous marine reptiles. "These krakens must have been a fearsome…...

1+ hour, 45+ min ago  (923+ words) Home - Environment - 85-million-year-old dinosaur eggs are rewriting Earth's climate history and shaking up paleontology How do you date something as fragile as an eggshell after it has spent tens of millions of years locked in stone? A new laser-based test…...

2+ hour, 17+ min ago  (174+ words) It was more than it was Kraken-ed up to be. An octopus the size of the Hollywood Sign might seem like a monster from Greek mythology. This massive mollusk "had among the largest body sizes of all organisms in the…...

5+ hour, 39+ min ago  (725+ words) Monstrous octopuses the size of modern whales prowled the seas during the Age of Dinosaurs, snatching prey with their huge tentacles and crunching them with powerful jaws, fossils from B. C. and Japan suggest." Like mythical, tentacled sea monsters such as the…...

7+ hour, 1+ min ago  (101+ words) of an octopus jaw fossil that enabled precise visualization of its fine structures by using zero-shot learning AI. (Video: Shin Ikegami, Kanta Sugiura, Yasuhiro Iba, J'rg Mutterlose, Yusuke Takeda, Mehmet Oguz Derin, Aya Kubota, Kazuki Tainaka, Harufumi Nishida) Digital fossil-mining…...