Back in 2018, scientists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks using ice-penetrating radar discovered a 31-kilometre impact ...

New research has found that a skull from a mysterious human relative nicknamed “Dragon Man” belongs to an extinct archaic ...

Off the east coast of China, researchers discovered an unusual spiky creature feeding on a jellyfish-like species called a hydroid. In recent years, similar specimens were recorded in that region of ...

County Cork, Ireland’s southernmost county, has rustic architectural gems, stately Georgian homes, and 19th-century rowhouses ...

Incanomys mayopuma, or the Incan water mouse, is about 10 inches long and has traits such as a long flattened tail and large hindfeet with fringe hairs, which indicate it is strongly adapted to ...

A rare new spoon-nose eel species, Mystriophis caboverdensis, has been discovered in the Cabo Verde Archipelago.

Nothing quite fits the moniker “gentle giant” more than sauropods. These gargantuan dinosaurs could reach up to 123 feet long ...

Historical response to the cello endpin, which anchors the instrument to the floor, has alternated between acceptance and ...

Each specimen we’ve chosen is really just a starting point, allowing us to explore all the unusual natural histories and stories from across the animal and plant worlds in an entertaining and lively ...

Brace yourselves for the strangest and most exciting event of the year as The Oddities and Curiosities Expo, the ultimate ...

Xenacanthus was a 3-to-5-foot freshwater shark which fed on crustaceans and small fish. It lived from the end of the Devonian ...

A university pathology museum has in its collection specimens possibly retained from coronial autopsies without consent. It ...