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.

Here are six species that have some of the strangest and most specialised noses on Earth, turning their faces into remarkable examples of evolution at work. The star-nosed mole has one of the most ...

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

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.

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.

Calling all fans of paleontology and natural history — NBC's new eight-part docu-series Surviving Earth will premiere on Thursday, June 4, on NBC at 8 p.m. ET/PT.