Don't be fooled by supposed drone image of giant octopus in Gulf of Mexico

An image shared online in December 2025 was an authentic drone picture of a gargantuan octopus spotted in the Gulf of Mexico.

A 400-million-year-old fossil is revealing how plants grew into giants

The tallest plants alive today can grow to over 100 meters tall. But they evolved from ancestors that were just a few ...
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Enormous 68-million-year-old egg nicknamed 'The Thing' is excavated in Antarctica

About 68-million-years ago, during the Late Cretaceous, a giant fossil egg was laid in Antarctica. The excavated remains ...

Years of planning culminate in ‘baby boom’ of great apes at L.A. Zoo. Here’s how they did it

Over the last four months, the L.A. Zoo has welcomed the birth of five great apes, including a gorilla, orangutan and three ...
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Mosasaur tooth found in North Dakota will force a rewrite of the 'sea monster' textbooks

A surprising fossil find shows that some mosasaurs lived in ancient rivers as oceans changed near the end of the Cretaceous.
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Is the Giant Eclipse Octopus found in the Gulf of Mexico real or fake? Viral footage explored

The Giant Eclipse Octopus is going viral on Facebook. The page Science and Space Daily uploaded a picture of a Kraken-like creature and claimed it was supposedly found in the Gulf of Mexico. Marine ...