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 ...

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 ...

Over the past decade, Don’t Nod has explored the soul-sucking worlds of 17th-century America, post-WWI London, dystopian Paris, and a high school in the Pacific Northwest. But for its next trick, the ...

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth's strangest creatures. Since deep-sea critters have adapted to near ...