Wondering about the weirdest animals in the world? We've listed the Top 31 here — including the axolotl, aye-aye, blobfish, ...

The natural world is full of animals that seem to defy logic, blurring the line between reality and imagination. Some look ...

Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea ...

Few have explored the ocean’s deepest depths – but those rare few have shared images of the strangest, most mysterious ...

Hallucigenia sparsa is one of the most unusual animals that occurred more than 500 million years ago. Although its anatomy ...

At first glance, this mammal looks like a horse gone terribly wrong. But, in reality, Chalicotherium is far from a botched ...

This little lizard can fire blood up to 5 feet from its face, has spiky horns and inflates itself to choke predators. This living fossil can grow as large as an alligator, has two rows of needle-sharp ...

Fans of The Walking Dead will enjoy discovering a snake behaving like the slithering dead with its strange post-hibernation ...

Strange animals found at the bottom of the ocean challenge our current understanding of life, scientists have said. Researchers diving almost 10,000 meters deep into the Pacific Ocean found tube worms ...

Get to know the bat-eared fox, an insect-eating creature found in the grasslands and savannas of Africa (and also the Smithsonian’s National Zoo.) Mike Bock This peculiar-looking canine lives in the ...