This video follows the arrival and unboxing of one of the heaviest tarantulas ever kept in captivity The process quickly shifts from curiosity to tension as the animal shows defensive behavior Handler ...

Four undergraduate students who will each receive their diploma at next month's Commencement ceremony at the University of ...

During the Cretaceous, 19-metre-long predatory octopuses swam the seas, and evidence from their fossilised remains suggest ...

Some octopuses that lived over 72 million years ago were as long as whales. These huge predators may have been the largest ...

The ancient cephalopod, Nanaimoteuthis haggarti, appears to have been an apex predator that rivaled mosasaurs to rule ...

A remarkably preserved, mummified reptile from 289 million years ago is rewriting what we know about how animals first ...

Ruby Reynolds and her father were on the beach when they discovered Ichthyotitan severnensis - the largest-ever marine ...

Bizarrely – or maybe not, considering what can be a Guinness World Record these days – there is even a world record for the ...

Researchers discovered evidence of enormous Kraken-like creatures who hunted in the seas some 100 million years ago, ...

"It was a female, and it certainly was not called Benjamin. It is an unfortunate myth [created by] a bullsh*t artist of the ...