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

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.

If you’ve ever wondered what heaven looks like for someone who loves bugs, The Insect Asylum in Chicago is probably it. This peculiar little museum in Logan Square celebrates the six-legged, the ...

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

Cosmic jellyfish aside, jellyfish are not an animal that you would expect to encounter in space too much. But at one point in the 1990s, 60,000 jellyfish spent time in space aboard the European Space ...

Lucian and his men on the Moon fighting strange creatures. Illustration by William Strang (1894). Public Domain The first science fiction novel about man on the Moon was written in Greek by Lucian of ...

The investigative minds at How to Survive explore the grossest-looking animals on Earth to see if they are actually dangerous or just weird to look at.

What do weird animals look like?

These 20 animals are so strange they look like science fiction creations, but they’re completely real. Nature is far more bizarre than you think.

Monsters are one of the core themes of any work of fantasy. Whether it's literature, film, or even video games, anything in the realm of fantasy generally includes some sort of monster or creature ...

There is a tiny cyclops among your oldest ancestors, and humans share these remarkable ancestral roots with all other vertebrates. Researchers from Lund University and University of Sussex have found ...