Shelby Van Pelt is the author of the hit novel "Remarkably Bright Creatures" about a giant Pacific octopus who develops a ...

The beak was barely the size of a human fist, but the animal it belonged to may have stretched longer than a humpback whale.

This little-known Florida museum on Sanibel Island features one of the world’s most impressive shell collections, plus a live ...

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

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 ...

UK households are to be urged to use more power this summer as renewables soar. Households will be called on to boost their consumption of the UK's record renewable energy this summer to help balance ...

Human ingenuity is a remarkable thing, but occasionally, it takes a wrong turn into a cul-de-sac of absolute absurdity. We often see people facing a simple, everyday problem and deciding that the most ...

Why can images of things we have seen seem so real when we later recall them from memory? A new study led by Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University investigators sheds light on the answer. The ...

An object resembling an artillery shell was discovered on a conveyor belt Monday morning at the Burbank Recycling Center. The suspicious device was reportedly spotted at about 7 a.m. at the location ...

For a male octopus, there is one appendage it cannot afford to lose. This is its third right arm, which has a specialised role in sex. Therefore, they take extra care to protect it. A new study led by ...

Over the past few decades, sodium-ion batteries have kindled considerable interest owing to the abundance, low cost and widespread availability of sodium in the Earth’s crust. So sodium-ion batteries ...