'Kraken' octopus that lived at the time of the dinosaurs was a 62-foot-long apex predator of the ocean

A close inspection of 27 fossil jaws from finned octopuses challenge the longstanding belief that the apex oceanic predators ...
EurekAlert!

Giant octopuses may have ruled the oceans 100 million years ago

Fossil evidence suggests that some of the earliest octopuses were enormous, powerful predators in the Cretaceous oceans.
Smithsonian Magazine

150-Year-Old Frogs Collected by a Founding Smithsonian Naturalist Helped 21st-Century Scientists Track How Pesticides Devastated Amphibian Populations in Illinois

In celebration of the upcoming Save the Frogs Day, learn how scientists used historic cricket frogs to connect ...
C&EN

Chemical firms and researchers outline policies to boost green chemistry

A new report from Change Chemistry and UMass Lowell, in collaboration with dozens of companies, argues for incentives to ...
Smithsonian Magazine

In Japan, a New Steward for 1,200 Years of Cherry Blossom Data Has Been Found, Sustaining a Climate Change Research Project

Climate scientist Yasuyuki Aono, who died last summer, learned to read ancient Japanese script to compile records on peak ...