It’s easy to judge an animal by its appearance. Unusual features, sharp claws, large size, or a reputation shaped by myths ...

Big teeth, beady eyes, and spiky skin might scream danger, but not all creatures that look like nightmare fuel are out to get ...

Analysis of the fossil suggests that the only two egg-laying mammals, platypuses and land-based echidnas, both descended from a semi-aquatic creature The odd-looking specimen with scythe-like jaws ...

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

Thousands of blue and purple sea creatures have been washing ashore in Ventura County beaches.  These strange looking ...

Land animals weren’t the only strange hybrids lurking within medieval bestiaries. A zitiron (or zytiron) was a fusion of a human knight and a sea creature. They were also known as mer-knights or ...

Some animals in the U.S. show bizarre zombie-like traits—like twitching, crawling, or moving after death—freaking out ...

The bird species called the Andean Cock of the Rock is known for the large feathery bulb on it's face, but what is it use for ...

Among the creatures ... Strange creatures straight out of a science-fiction movie have been captured by scientists off the coast of Antarctica. Pink and bulbous "sea pigs", hand-sized sea spiders and ...

Every strange and wacky creature struggled to survive ... colonizing the surface of the Earth. They may look otherworldly to us, but the Cambrian animals set the stage for all animal life on ...

jellyfish-like creatures coating the West Coast sands. Del Dickson, who saw the animals on Bolinas Beach in Marin County while walking his dogs, tells the San Francisco Chronicle’s Nora Mishanec ...