A solar eclipse unsettles the natural world in ways you might not expect. As the moon crosses paths with the sun, the sudden ...

What do anteaters, snail kites, and honey badgers have in common? Their diets define their names—and sometimes misrepresent their behavior completely. Discover how human observation, translation, and ...

(via Kurzgesagt) The ocean sunfish, or Mola, is one of the strangest animals alive. A massive, flat, derpy giant that eats jellyfish, drifts aimlessly, and carries parasites that even have smaller ...

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 ...

MacPhee (Race to the End), a paleomammalogist with the American Museum of Natural History, critically examines theories on the extinction of many huge vertebrate species over the past 50,000 years in ...

What are some animals that give birth to huge numbers of offspring at once?” (Watch a female sea urchin produce millions of eggs.) The mola, or ocean sunfish, looks like an animal cracker someone bit ...

'Rare' ancestor reveals how huge flightless birds made it to faraway lands Aye-ayes: The strange nocturnal lemurs with long, creepy fingers Headless chicken monster: The deep sea cucumber with tubular ...

The heavily armoured Spicomellus lived more than 165 million years ago in what is now Morocco One of the world’s strangest dinosaurs is even more bizarre than first realised. New fossils found in ...