Six animals pulled from the deep ocean were so biologically distinct that researchers had to create entirely new taxonomic ranks to classify them, from a new order of sponges to a new supergroup of ...

What’s armored, covered in worms, and has a rasping tongue? If you said the stuff of nightmares, you’re not wrong. Luckily, however, the critter in question is pretty small—and now famous. Meet ...

It's not only humans that do some sketchy, questionable stuff. Animals in the wild have their own peculiarities, too, and these weird animal behaviors usually don't go unnoticed. And by weird, we ...