Nature doesn’t always play by the rules. For every majestic lion or elegant eagle, there’s a creature so bizarre it looks like a science experiment gone rogue.

An artist’s impression depicts Kryoryctes at Dinosaur Cove in Australia. New research supports the hypothesis that Kryoryctes is a common ancestor of both the platypus and echidna. - Peter Schouten ...

Animals have a way of breaking our expectations. That is why so many weird animal facts sound fake when you hear them for the ...

Read on as we reveal 30 fascinating facts about creatures great and small... Young pygmy goats (pictured above) are social beings and – like some of their human counterparts – like to try and fit in ...

The animal kingdom has so many stranger-than-fiction animals. From a glowing green sea slug to a lizard with a toad's head, these weird animals are some of the most fascinating creatures in the animal ...

From giant stick bugs to rarely seen sea creatures, these animal videos fascinated us—and led to new scientific discoveries.

Snakes are rather strange animals in general thanks to their bizarre anatomy, but have you ever wondered: what are the most unusual, odd, and absolute weirdest snakes in the entire world? What kind of ...

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 ...

(CNN) — The story of two of the strangest animals on the planet just got a little stranger, thanks to clues revealed by a lone fossil specimen that scientists now say represents a long-extinct ...