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

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Unearthed in a rare Saharan fossil site in Niger, Spinosaurus mirabilis had a large head crest that may have signaled a message to ...

Park visitors were peering at the water near a California jetty when something caught their eye: large gray creatures lurking below. Fearing the animals may be sharks, multiple visitors called Sonoma ...

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 ...