Those bizarre sea creatures that light up like carnival rides are actually ctenophores, which have an ancient brainlike ...

From bone-eating snot-flowers to snowboarding scale worms, when a whale dies it becomes a colossal island of nutrients – ...

Explore the darkest corners of the abyss with 18 terrifying creatures found at the bottom of the ocean. These are Earth's ...

When we imagine prehistoric life, we often picture early humans living among every ancient creature that ever existed. In reality, many animals appeared long after early humans had disappeared or ...

Picture this: you’re a scientist digging near the Amazon rainforest, and you pull a jawbone out of the ground that looks so ...

Even with only jaws, Tanyka amnicola adds a new character to an ancient ecosystem that scientists are still trying to sketch ...

Picture yourself dragging in your fishing net after a day at sea, only to catch a glimpse of a strange creature staring back ...

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 ...

A strange sea creature washed ashore at Wollongong on Friday. Do you know what it is? Source: Andrew Murray Move over, sharks ...

A frog species known since 1838 may actually be several different species, according to a new genetic study of Southeast Asia ...

Two rarely-seen deep-sea creatures recently washed up on a beach in Mexico and according to legend, it's not a good sign.

Researchers exploring Uganda’s Kibale National Park have discovered seven new species of frog-like leafhoppers. The tiny ...