A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding ...

If you’ve spent any time on TikTok lately, especially on the Italian side of the app, you’ve probably stumbled upon the ...

calls a “blatantly strange body architecture.” Giraffe’s bones grow faster than any other animal, for instance, and the blood pressure required to pump blood up its six-foot neck would be fatal to ...

They’re slow, they’re sleepy, and they’ve taken over the internet—but sloths are more than just cute animals hanging from ...

Scientists on an icebreaker ship have captured a number of weird and wacky animals from Antarctica's ocean floor, including a bizarre pig-shaped creature.

The brand-new species was given the name Tripedalia maipoensis as a tribute to where scientists originally found the marine animal in the Mai Po Nature Reserve in Hong Kong. This ...

Behold, one of Earth's earliest animals: Ok, so it's a flattened, circular blob with a mysterious question mark shape for a butt crack. A collaboration between US scientists and paleontologists ...

Just admit it, goat eyes look weird! It's the pupils ... at a plethora of different animal eyeballs and discovered a fascinating trend. They conclude that pupil shape and size plays a key role ...