For more than 25 years, a small, soft-bodied fossil pulled from an Illinois coal mine held a remarkable title: the world’s ...

Nautiloids—a lineage of ancient, externally-shelled cephalopods that diverged from their octopus and squid relatives over 400 million years ago—once dominated our oceans. Today, this living fossil is ...

The world's oldest octopus fossil is no longer an octopus. A new study by researchers says the 300-million-year-old creature ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers from the University of Oregon have solved a longstanding biological mystery: octopuses utilize a specific chromosome ...

Scientists have found evidence that a 300-million-year-old sea creature previously thought to be the world's oldest octopus ...

Spread the loveThe realm of paleontology is filled with intriguing discoveries that often reshape our understanding of the evolutionary history of various species. A recent breakthrough has emerged ...

The fossil, found by Jay Anderson in a Steele County gravel pit, was identified as belonging to the genus Endoceras, from the Paleozoic Era. Michael Kjelland (left), a professor from Mayville State ...

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: ...