The video above takes viewers beneath the waters off Bali, Indonesia, where a truly unusual marine animal glides across the seafloor. At first glance, it looks almost unreal — soft, translucent, and ...

Explore 25 strange new species scientists recently discovered, from giant anacondas to Darth Vader sea bugs. Dive into Earth's hidden biodiversity. Discove ...

The combination of a beaver-like body and duck-like bill of the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is only the first of a ...

The platypus is one of nature’s strangest mammals. This egg-laying animal sweats milk, hunts by sensing electrical signals, carries venomous spurs, and even glows under ultraviolet light. Discover the ...

The ocean is still one of the biggest mysteries on Earth, and the deeper you go, the stranger it gets. Far below the surface, ...

From bone-eating snot-flowers to snowboarding scale worms, when a whale dies it becomes a colossal island of nutrients – attracting weird and wonderful creatures to feast.

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The Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus), also called the Asian tapir or Indian tapir, is the largest of the five species of tapir and the only one native to Asia. Rare/endangered animal. The tapir is ...

A groundbreaking fossil discovery in the Grand Canyon has unveiled exquisitely preserved soft-bodied animals from the Cambrian period, offering an unprecedented glimpse into early life more than 500 ...

Scientists found a “large”-headed creature with spiny skin on a mountain in Nepal and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from S. Hofmann via Hofmann, Ohler, Baniya, Dubois, Flecks, ...

This insect has antennas like a butterfly and wings like a dragonfly. It folds its wings along its sides like a damselfly, and it hunts its prey at night like an owl. This fascinating insect is called ...