In the Burgess Shale, an exceptional fossil sheds new light on the evolution of early arthropods. Mosura fentoni, with its ...

From eyes the size of a dinner plate to 360-degree vision, these animals boast extraordinarily efficient ways of seeing. Meet the creatures with the most crafty, strange and sophisticated eyes in the ...

A chameleon can move each eye independently of the other, allowing the animal to simultaneously look in two different directions with a full 360-degree view. Just like a camera lens with a zoom ...

Why it's awesome: The hoatzin is often regarded as one of the world's strangest birds. Hatchlings are born with clawed wings ...

The Cambrian sea was a very strange and alien place. Evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould described the animals that lived ... of the first mouths, eyes and legs. Some of the odd critters ...

“Eyes have evolved dozens of times,” Sallan ... “As such, no convincing alternatives are presented for where this strange animal fits on the tree of life.” That idea was seconded by ...

These quick-change artists have eyes on top of their heads, yet marvelously mimic the surfaces they sit on. This prompted Clayton Louis Ferrara to ask Weird Animal Question of the Week ...