The arctic fox completely swaps its dark summer coat for a snow-white one when winter is coming. The kidney garden spider ...

Africa is home to some of the most fascinating wildlife on Earth. After all, there’s a reason you think of the continent when ...

Probably the last thing you’d expect to see is a tiger slinking along inside a laundromat while you’re folding your clothes. Or a duck on the subway! Clearly, something strange is going on, and your ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Platypuses are monotremes, one of the oldest branches of mammals, and they reproduce by laying eggs instead of giving birth to ...

South America has the most diverse wildlife of any continent, with an extremely high species count. And some of South America ...

Deep in the dense, mist-laden jungles of Cambodia's Virachey National Park, a camera trap has captured something extraordinary. Among the usual suspects—sambar deer and curious macaques—an ancient, ...

Across the animal kingdom, a surprising number of species defy the simple warm-blooded or cold-blooded labels found in textbooks. From leatherback sea turtles that can keep their deep body temperature ...

Strange creatures straight out of a science-fiction movie have been captured by scientists off the coast of Antarctica. Pink and bulbous "sea pigs", hand-sized sea spiders and delicate sea butterflies ...

The Steller sea lion was an unusual visitor to the pier, which typically hosts smaller California sea lions. However, he may have moved on days ago, during which time a humongous member of the area’s ...

Some indie game premises are so bizarre that you wonder how the human mind could come up with them. Such is the case with Ultimate Sheep Raccoon. With a title that sounds like it came from a random ...