Platypuses are weird looking. They look like someone stitched together a duck and a beaver—flat bill, webbed feet, and a ...

What do weird animals look like?

Geologists have detected a magnetic tug-of-war taking place between the two regions beneath Canada and Siberia that will affect us and our wildlife.

Those bizarre sea creatures that light up like carnival rides are actually ctenophores, which have an ancient brainlike ...

Inside the growing scientific quest to understand what creatures with the extraordinary ability to defy the ravages of time can teach us about making human aging better.

What would someone from Borneo think of the turkeys in New England?

From bone-eating snot-flowers to snowboarding scale worms, when a whale dies it becomes a colossal island of nutrients – attracting weird and wonderful creatures to feast.

Every state has regulations, but few of these strange animal laws feel essential.Some exist to protect animal welfare, others to shield people, and some are so oddly specific you can’t help but wonder ...

"It's a really strange animal, and the weird twist in the jaw drove us crazy trying to figure it out." ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

A new study found that subtle differences in an animal’s behavior by midlife can predict how long it is likely to live.

The fossilized remains of a creature with a twisted jaw and sideways-facing teeth have been discovered in the Amazon jungle. Scientists say the plant eating reptiles now called Tanyka consisted of ...