Art often imitates life, and sometimes animals do, too. The enormous jellyfish seen in this YouTube video bears a striking ...

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 ...

The rock, which features 255 strange markings as well as the image of a boat, was unlike anything that had ever been found ...

This summer in Chicago, the Field Museum is turning up the heat – and the chills – with its new exhibit, featuring a rare specimen not seen anywhere else in U.S. The “Reptiles Alive” exhibit opens ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Palaeontologist Sarah Gabbott explains what’s so unusual about her discovery ... because of discoveries made previously. I found two specimens. The first one is complete but the second one ...

Within the block was specimen SHN.830, a right hemimandible with parts of the incisors and premolars still preserved. The mandible had belonged to a juvenile, still in the process of replacing its ...

“Other hell ants have been described with odd mandibles, but always as amber specimens ... It also offers some insight into unusual features in ant species of this period that didn’t ...

Lakefront Brewery is hosting a new market this year, Rare Bird Market, where vendors will sell more obscure and unusual goods from medieval garments to wet specimens — animals or parts of ...