Platypuses are weird looking. They look like someone stitched together a duck and a beaver—flat bill, webbed feet, and a ...

Endangered Pink Fairy Armadillo, the world’s smallest armadillo species, adapted to sandy deserts and grasslands of Argentina© Harsha_Madusanka/Shutterstock.com ...

Even with only jaws, Tanyka amnicola adds a new character to an ancient ecosystem that scientists are still trying to sketch ...

Animals display truly bizarre habits in the wild. Octopuses punch fish, goats climb trees for food, and wombats produce ...

Picture this: you’re a scientist digging near the Amazon rainforest, and you pull a jawbone out of the ground that looks so wrong you assume it broke underground. Then you find another one. Same weird ...

From glossy black bears and quill-covered porcupines to elegant red-tailed hawks and stripy chipmunks, Oregon is home to some ...

Evolution is usually a masterpiece of efficiency, but every once in a while, it feels like the natural world ran out of resources and had to finish a project using whatever leftovers were in the bin.

Koalas with the bodies of lions. Elephants the size of your dog. Gigantic, 8-foot-tall sloths. These aren’t creatures found in science fiction: They walked our planet a million years ago, during the ...