A group of marine researchers aboard the E/V Nautilus has made an astonishing discovery, one that has been over 15 years in ...

Months later, those ripples have been identified as an extinct cephalopod, from hundreds of millions of years ago. The fossil was found in May, when a boulder was broken with an excavator's ...

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 ...

MAYVILLE, N.D. — A once-in-a-lifetime discovery in rural North Dakota. The fossil remnants of an ancient sea monster. There are many remnants of the ancient past inside Mayville State University ...

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 ...

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 ...