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.

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

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.

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

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.

On a bad day for the planet, the first signs would look ordinary at first. A bright streak in the sky, a strange pulse on space-weather monitors, or a distant star suddenly flaring where none had ...

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.

What if we told you that there is an actual perfume called “Zombie For Her?” Based on its profile, it has a quite complex ...

In the case of those organs that really are on their own (such as the gastrointestinal tract), they may have originated earlier in evolutionary history and again survived for one simple reason: they ...

The deep sea is inhabited by many creatures that are unlike any other in the world, and the coffinfish is certainly one of the strangest. Dubbed the s.

Before Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, the 1977 animated Hobbit captured Tolkien’s tone and storytelling better than most adaptations.