The kraken: a giant squid or octopus of myth, seems to have swam in the Cretaceous oceans, a Japanese study shows.

This giant cephalopod dwarfed mosasaurs and other massive marine reptiles that lived during the time of the ...

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

A team of Japanese scientists have spent twenty years chasing this legend. Now, they finally have footage of a massive, ...

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

Study of fossilised beaks shows patterns of wear and suggests some ancient species were up to 19 metres long ...

The creature measured up to 62 feet and shared the seas with mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, and great-white-sized sharks.

Giant "kraken-like" octopuses were terrifying apex predators of the oceans 100 million years ago, according to new research. The "enormous" creatures were active carnivores who routinely crushed hard ...

That’s as new evidence has found that a ‘kraken-like’ octopus was once roaming the seas, according to scientists. The Kraken was a legend of a sea monster, originating in Scandinavian folklore and ...

A GIANT 62ft octopus likened to the mythical kraken that swallowed up ships actually roamed the seas in the dinosaur era, new research shows. The gargantuan sea monster was an apex predator when ...