A mysterious rock painting in South Africa’s cave could be the first-ever artwork of an animal that disappeared 250 million years ago. The San people’s “Horned Serpent Panel” features a strange ...

Evolution is a continuous, powerful force shaping the natural world around us. As environmental pressures intensify, future animal evolution is likely to produce fascinating and sometimes bizarre new ...

The ocean is full of some incredibly odd creatures. It feels like the further you go down, the stranger and more alien-like they become. With so many interesting creatures, it makes you wonder, what ...

Not every animal gets the luck of the draw when it comes to looks. While some creatures get by with soft fur and wide eyes, others work with extra flaps, strange noses, or skin that looks half-melted.

Mushrooming carbon-dioxide levels are leading to caustic ocean conditions, but some species, like the purple sea urchin, have the ability to adapt to this changing environment, a new study shows.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What are these strange creatures washing up on Texas beaches, and why are they dying? Here's what the experts have to say.

To show animals of distant locales to the public in centuries before photography, artists were sometimes enlisted to recreate exotic fauna through secondhand descriptions or some scrap of skin or ...

The Gulf of Mexico is home to many species, and sometimes strange creatures and sharks wash ashore due to high tides or weather. Whether it was an eyeball-looking thing or shape-shifting blobs, MySA ...

April 9 (UPI) --Wildlife officials in Colorado said a mysterious creature caught on camera outside a resident's home might be a raccoon with mange -- but they aren't sure. A Pueblo resident named ...