The giant squid’s strength, speed, and stealth make it a terrifying predator, capable of crushing bones and dragging prey ...

The beak, made of hard chitin and other materials, changes density gradually from the hard tip to a softer, more flexible base where it attaches to the muscle around the squid's mouth, the ...

Squishy rulers of the dinosaur-era seas.Squids consist mostly of soft body parts. The one exception is their hard, chitinous beak. Squid beaks that manage to survive on the fossil record of Earth ...

Researchers uncovered 263 fossilized squid beaks, including about 40 different species that had never been seen before.

Researchers are always asking hard questions the rest of us would never have thought of, such as this one: How does a gelatinous squid manipulate its stiff, razor-sharp beak without turning itself ...

The researchers say squid beaks - hard mouthparts that have a high fossilisation potential - are important clues for studying how squids evolved.

A new fossil discovery technique reveals that squids originated and rapidly became abundant, diverse, and dominant in the oceans 100 million years ago, reshaping our understanding of ancient ...

Ancient squids dominated the oceans 100 million years ago, reveals new research. A state-of-the-art fossil discovery technique shows that squids originated and quickly rose to become dominant ...