Forget fluffy puppies and purring kittens; some people have a fondness for the truly peculiar when it comes to their animal ...

Some creatures can dramatically alter their internal temperature — a strategy called heterothermy — and outlast storms, ...

"Nine jaws we've found have this twist, including the really well-preserved ones, so it's not a deformation." ...

Paleontologists surveying a dry riverbed in northeastern Brazil repeatedly encountered the same type of fossil: a lower jaw ...

Head to the Pacific coast and you may encounter a gumboot chiton – a blob-like marine mollusc known affectionately as the ...

The Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus), also called the Asian tapir or Indian tapir, is the largest of the five species of tapir and the only one native to Asia. Rare/endangered animal. The tapir is ...

By drawing water into an internal, muscular cavity and forcefully expelling it through a flexible, narrow tube, known as a siphon, cephalopods are able to create forward thrust, propelling themselves ...

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Based only on jawbones, scientists have described a new salamander-like animal that would have been a “living fossil” for its ...