Platypuses are weird looking. They look like someone stitched together a duck and a beaver—flat bill, webbed feet, and a ...

When we think of rewilding cities, we usually think of adding more greenery. Two-thirds of urban conservation programmes do focus exclusively on vegetation, according to a new review of thousands of ...

Scientists have described an exciting discovery: two marsupials that modern science thought to be extinct are still alive in ...

The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium celebrates its first puggle, a baby short-beaked echidna, born in December 2025.

Researchers say the remarkable discoveries were made using fossils, photos, and the knowledge of Indigenous communities. The ...

What are the 10 most venomous animals in the world? After all, some folks may calculate venomousness using a potency-versus-size calculation; others may focus on victim statistics across the animal ...

How a collection of London pigeons and Galápagos mockingbirds provided the receipts for Darwin’s biggest ideas.

The pygmy possum has a stripe down its back and an unusually long fourth finger, twice as long as the rest of its digits, that it uses to extract insect larvae that bores down into wood. It was last ...

Do you love independent animals? Read on to learn about some of the most incredible independent animals living and traveling alone today. Bears are independent creatures who like to live on their own.

With its uniquely twisted jaw and sideways-facing teeth, the new species was a relic of an earlier and more experimental time in the evolution of life on Earth. Fossils discovered in Brazil show that ...

From an animal that’s not actually an animal, to the world’s only venomous primate, there are some unusual deadly animals in ...