Earth is home to an estimated 8.7 million species, and most of them never make it into a nature documentary. While lions, elephants, and great white sharks dominate our collective imagination, the ...

War is a desperate time, and some people get creative during these intense situations. For instance, there were several ...

The Arctic whales are the only known animals with straight tusks, and ones that consistently twist to the left. New research ...

Evolution has produced a vast range ofanimal defense strategies, like heavy armor and camouflage abilities. However, nature is also capable of developing some truly odd protection strategies. The ...

To survive the deep ocean, sea creatures have all kinds of adaptations that give them alien-like appearances, such as huge ...

Animals often surprise us, but some abilities go beyond simple curiosity. Every now and then, researchers come across a trait that raises more questions than answers. Even with modern tools like ...

Callipallene pilosuspedes, a species of sea spider newly discovered in the Salish Sea by UBC researchers. Photo credit: ...

'South America's Weirdest Animals' dives into the depths of the South American wild to investigate the cast of misfits, the oddities, the weird, the eccentric and the truly bizarre animals that abound ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Scientists estimate there are over 8 million animal species ...

WASHINGTON — Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures that ...