In the wilds of northern Minnesota, an enigmatic creature has been caught on camera, leaving wildlife experts scratching their heads. The mysterious animal, filmed by the Voyageurs Wolf Project, ...

Two gopher tortoises were spray painted with bright colors in Naples, Florida, causing a local conservancy to rush to their aid Conservancy of Southwest Florida An act of vandalism could have a ...

The natural world is full of wonders that often seem to defy belief. Some creatures are so extraordinary, they look as if they’ve leaped right out of ancient myths and legends. From bizarre deep-sea ...

Strange animals found at the bottom of the ocean challenge our current understanding of life, scientists have said. Researchers diving almost 10,000 meters deep into the Pacific Ocean found tube worms ...

To show animals of distant locales to the public in centuries before photography, artists were sometimes enlisted to recreate exotic fauna through secondhand descriptions or some scrap of skin or ...

Deep-sea researchers have discovered a strange glowing sea slug off the coast of California that lives in the water column — unlike most other species of its kind. When you purchase through links on ...

"Whatever creature made these magnetofossils, we now know it was most likely capable of accurate navigation." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

History holds countless moments where animals unexpectedly changed everything, often in ways that still surprise us today. Some of these moments involved unlikely participants whose contributions ...

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 ...

From leopards hidden in luggage to over a hundred snakes stashed in a man’s pants, there are some absolutely wild stories of people smuggling animals. Animal smuggling is no joke: It ignores the ...