Across the world, humans have told stories of creatures so strange and powerful they blur the line between myth and reality.

Some of Earth’s rarest animals are so elusive they feel more like folklore than flesh and bone. We often think of endangered ...

The world's oceans are big and dark and deep. They cover approximately 70% of the planet’s surface and contain a huge portion of Earth’s biodiversity. If you want to find some of the weirdest ...

From mysterious colossal squid to the ferocious pram bug, these creatures are stranger than fiction. Found in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, the flower hat jellyfish (Olindias formosa) glides with ...

A mysterious example of Indigenous rock art from South Africa may depict a "strange" animal that lived more than 200 million years ago and went extinct long before the appearance of the first humans, ...

Swarms of strange, blue and translucent jelly fish-like creatures have again washed up on Southern California beaches. What are these creatures? They're known as velella velella, which, despite their ...

For a recent paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers investigated the odd physics of a ...

All living beings emit a strange glow linked to vitality that vanishes when they die, according to a study that may lead to a powerful new tool for medical diagnosis. Life forms are essentially ...