The fossil once believed to be the world’s oldest octopus has been reclassified as a nautiloid relative after new research revealed it had too many teeth to belong to an octopus.

A 300-million-year-old tentacled sea creature has lost its crown as the world’s oldest octopus, after scientists found ...

The ocean is still one of the biggest mysteries on Earth, and the deeper you go, the stranger it gets. Far below the surface, where sunlight can’t reach, lives a world full of creatures that look more ...

The video above takes viewers beneath the waters off Bali, Indonesia, where a truly unusual marine animal glides across the seafloor. At first glance, it looks almost unreal — soft, translucent, and ...

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Advanced 3D reconstructions of the comb jelly’s aboral organ reveal a sensory system far more complex than scientists expected. The organ contains a wide variety of specialized cells and is closely ...

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