The combination of a beaver-like body and duck-like bill of the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is only the first of a ...

The video above takes viewers beneath the waters off Bali, Indonesia, where a truly unusual marine animal glides across the seafloor. At first glance, it looks almost unreal — soft, translucent, and ...

Picture this: you’re a scientist digging near the Amazon rainforest, and you pull a jawbone out of the ground that looks so ...

When we imagine prehistoric life, we often picture early humans living among every ancient creature that ever existed. In reality, many animals appeared long after early humans had disappeared or ...

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.

Scientists studying stranded pygmy sperm whales have uncovered three previously unknown genotypes of Helicobacter bacteria ...

Reptiles shed their skin, but not all of them do so equally. Discover the differences between snakes and amphibians when it ...

The platypus is one of nature’s strangest mammals. This egg-laying animal sweats milk, hunts by sensing electrical signals, carries venomous spurs, and even glows under ultraviolet light. Discover the ...

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

Horror rises from the ocean once again as Tamashii Nations has just unveiled their newest S.H.MonsterArts figure set. Inspired by the hit 2016 Japanese kaiju film Shin Godzilla, this new set brings ...