Forget fluffy puppies and purring kittens; some people have a fondness for the truly peculiar when it comes to their animal ...

Earth is full of bizarre creatures, with more being discovered each year. As documented in the scientific journal Species ...

An artist’s impression depicts Kryoryctes at Dinosaur Cove in Australia. New research supports the hypothesis that Kryoryctes is a common ancestor of both the platypus and echidna. - Peter Schouten ...

From angry dolphins and snakes taking faking their deaths to the next level, to a frog who had just had enough. Take our quiz on the strangest animal news of 2024. When you purchase through links on ...

At first glance, the blobfish, also known as a flathead sculpin (Psychrolutes phrictus), looks like a pinkish, gelatinous blob with a droopy mouth and a sagging nose. It looks even worse when it is ...

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Chicago have uncovered a series of bizarre and unsettling items in agricultural shipments, including disemboweled goats, giraffe feces and dismembered ...

Preface : Lost in near time -- Big -- "This sudden dying out" -- The world before us -- The hominin diaspora -- Explaining near time extinctions : first attempts -- Paul Martin and the planet of doom ...

(CNN) — The story of two of the strangest animals on the planet just got a little stranger, thanks to clues revealed by a lone fossil specimen that scientists now say represents a long-extinct ...