In order to see Antarctica's resident land animals, you have to have a microscope. And one look reveals an outlandish cast of characters more suited to Lewis Carroll's fiction than a Disney movie ...

Ask anyone to name an Antarctic land animal, and chances are the response will be, "penguin." Try again, says David Barnes, a scientist with the British Antarctic Survey. "Penguins aren't really ...

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5 Weird and Wild Animals You've (Probably) Never Heard Of These threatened species include living fossils, scaly mammals, and the biggest rodent ever. ... Scientists estimate that there are almost 9 ...

These weird-looking stocky mammals roam Alpine zones and forested valleys in Asia, using their specially adapted split hooves help them traverse the steep, rocky terrain. When you purchase through ...

Since dead animals in the ocean simply drift, anything left over from predators and natural decay can get caught in a strong tide and wash up on dry land to gross us all out. 3. Mike the Headless ...

Banks and his team looked at the eyes of 214 different species of land animals, ... In other words, goats have weird eyes because they help keep goats alive. Meanwhile, ...

Roughly 360 million years ago, one group of lobe-finned fish began evolving into four-legged, land-living animals that resulted in reptiles, amphibians and mammals like us.

Maybe you live in Australia; or, you’ve never set foot on the country-continent. Regardless, you may have asked why the land Down Under holds a sort of ecological monopoly on weird creatures. We’re ...

A fish that uses water as a sort of tongue to feed on land could shed light on how animals with backbones first invaded land, researchers say. These fish evolved into the first tetrapods (four ...

Ask anyone to name an Antarctic land animal, and chances are the response will be, "penguin." Try again, says David Barnes, a scientist with the British Antarctic Survey.