Like the modern giant squid, Tusoteuthis lacked an outer shell and is known only from discoveries of the rigid support structure in its body called a pen or gladius. The pen was akin to a backbone ...

Scientists have found that prehistoric flying reptiles that lived 182 million years ago lived on a diet of small fish and squid. The “first-ever discovery” of the fossilised stomach contents ...

Numerous extinct vampyromorphs have been discovered, suggesting that these creatures were a major component of prehistoric ... squid, of which it is a distant relative. Since we have no fossil ...