Most countries pick something sensible for their national animal — the U.S. has the bald eagle Canada has the beaver and Australia has the kangaroo However, some countries looked at that playbook and ...

As the heavy slab was levered up with a grunt, a strange, elongated pink creature was revealed. At first glance, it looked a ...

Nature doesn’t always play by the rules. For every majestic lion or elegant eagle, there’s a creature so bizarre it looks like a science experiment gone rogue. Some animals are evolutionary oddities, ...

Some animals are so unusual that they barely look real, and transparent creatures are among the strangest of them all. These ...

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 ...

A tapir, from first impression, seems to be a bizarre blend of multiple animal species; a body that resembles a hog with a ...

Forget fluffy puppies and purring kittens; some people have a fondness for the truly peculiar when it comes to their animal companions. We’re talking about creatures that'll make you raise an eyebrow ...

Springhares are the latest in a flurry of furry creatures that scientists have discovered are biofluorescent The Antarctic bird has leucism, meaning its feathers do not contain melanin needed to ...

Walk around the Cincinnati Zoo for an hour or so and it’s easy to think of the place as a neighborhood. Sure, the neighbors hang from trees and poop in their living rooms, but the similarities to a ...