Platypuses are weird looking. They look like someone stitched together a duck and a beaver—flat bill, webbed feet, and a ...

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

The combination of a beaver-like body and duck-like bill of the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is only the first of a ...

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

From an animal that’s not actually an animal, to the world’s only venomous primate, there are some unusual deadly animals in ...

From glossy black bears and quill-covered porcupines to elegant red-tailed hawks and stripy chipmunks, Oregon is home to some ...

Two of those eyes may have evolved into a part of the brain called the pineal gland Findings from the largest-ever survey of endangered flat-headed cats may help change the species’ official ...

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Here are six species that have some of the strangest and most specialised noses on Earth, turning their faces into remarkable ...

Noses are usually something we take for granted. Breathing, smelling, maybe a sniff of a flower, that’s about it for most ...