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The platypus is one of the strangest animals on Earth, combining traits of mammals, birds, and reptiles. This video explores its insane biology and why scientists are still baffled by it.

The Earth's tail is known as the "magnetotail". Though it is generally a permanent feature, it is at the whims of the solar ...

Looking out of the Fendouzhe submersible, more than nine kilometres below the ocean surface, Mengran Du knew she was seeing ...

A spherical sea sponge discovered in Antarctica, Carnivorous cladorhizid, is a carnivore, trapping and devouring live animals ...

The nature documentary series uses new research and photorealistic CGI to bring the huge, bizarre animals of the Ice Age back ...

This is the kind of question explored in New Weird fiction, a genre where ecosystems mutate, landscapes rebel and the line ...

When weird fungal epidemics crop up in far-flung places, scientists work together to unravel how the microscopic murderers ...

A Surinam toad camouflages itself by dead leaves (credit: Getty Images) A South American frog whose young erupt from the mother’s back. Called (confusingly) the Surinam toad, it is the most ...