There is no such thing as a fish.’ For centuries, people used the word “fish” to describe almost anything that lived ...

A fossil snake discovered in India may have reached nearly 50 feet long, offering new clues about giant predators in ancient ...

A GIANT 62ft octopus likened to the mythical kraken that swallowed up ships actually roamed the seas in the dinosaur era, new ...

Some 80 million years ago, the late Cretaceous oceans were patrolled by 17-meter mosasaurs, long-necked plesiosaurs, and ...

Flinders University researchers have taken a revealing look inside the head of one of the first animals to crawl from the ...

‘Kraken’ fossils show enormous, intelligent octopuses were top predators in Cretaceous seas Fossil jaws from colossal octopuses place them at the top of a prehistoric marine food chain ...

After losing its original eyes, one of our distant ancestors may have done what evolution does best: tinkered with what was available, reshaping a single central visual organ into two new eyes. That’s ...

A 518-million-year-old fossil has revealed that some of the earliest vertebrates possessed four image-forming eyes instead of two. That configuration recasts a small brain structure humans still carry ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...