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

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Endangered Pink Fairy Armadillo, the world’s smallest armadillo species, adapted to sandy ...

This video explores one of the most unusual animals found in a modern zoo setting. At first glance the species appears almost ...

Noses are usually something we take for granted. Breathing, smelling, maybe a sniff of a flower, that’s about it for most humans. But in the animal world, a nose can be a lot more than that. Some ...

Here are six species that have some of the strangest and most specialised noses on Earth, turning their faces into remarkable examples of evolution at work. The star-nosed mole has one of the most ...

Animal control is used to dealing with stray cats and dogs. But what happens when there’s a peacock strutting down the alley? A coyote walked into a Quizno’s in downtown Chicago on a spring day in ...

Some creatures with the most unique eyes in the world When we think about how animals experience the world, one of the first things that comes to mind is their eyes. And for good reason– nature has ...