The natural world is full of wonders that often seem to defy belief. Some creatures are so extraordinary, they look as if they’ve leaped right out of ancient myths and legends. From bizarre deep-sea ...

Before microscopes and satellites, the unknown world was a canvas for myth. When ancient explorers discovered fossils, ...

Some of the wildest legends may actually be rooted in reality. Ancient people didn’t have science textbooks, just bones in the dirt and stories passed around the fire, and sometimes, those stories ...

In July and August scientists onboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor (too) spotted the oddities through the eyes of an underwater robot as they explored the Mar del Plata Canyon.

TOPEKA (KSNT) – A local Topeka couple spotted a bizarre-looking animal on their property near Lake Shawnee last weekend. Jenny Brown told 27 News her husband, Jason Brown, spotted something strange on ...

Pink and bulbous "sea pigs", hand-sized sea spiders and delicate sea butterflies are among the bizarre animals hauled up from the ocean floor by a team of Australian researchers aboard the icebreaker ...

A very strange marine life encounter caught on video left scientists baffled when it was first spotted in New Zealand waters in 2023. More than a fanciful shark-octopus hybrid featured in low-budget ...

Haggis the pygmy hippo was born on October 30. There are only about 2,500 of these fun-size pachyderms like the viral Moo Deng left in the wild. RZSS Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

The South Florida Wildlands Association posted a photo of a strange creature that has inspired hundreds of comments South Florida Wildlands Association/Facebook A Florida wildlife nonprofit is asking ...

For a while, as part of a research project on care robots in Sweden, I had Paro the seal in my house. I had borrowed Paro from a roboticist colleague, and the seal had a longer-than-planned layover ...