Some animals living on Earth appear so unusual that they are often compared to aliens. Their shapes, movements, and behaviors challenge common ideas of what life should look like. Scientists explain ...

Nature always has the potential to outdo human imagination. From across oceans, forests, deserts, and isolated islands, there are actual living creatures strange enough to appear mythical. They have ...

One of the most shameful episodes in U.S. history began on Feb. 22, 1942, when President Roosevelt issued Executive Order ...

Polar bear attacks on humans are extremely rare, but experts say that shrinking sea ice is pushing them to approach inhabited ...

Hikers found a woman’s body on a trail on Crosier Mountain in Northern Colorado, with a mountain lion nearby, according to a ...

“Bugonia” refers to the ancient Greek belief that bees could spawn spontaneously from dead cow carcasses, and that cow dung was beneficial to the hive. It’s a myth, of course, but that didn’t stop ...

A woman was killed in a suspected mountain lion attack while she was hiking alone in the mountains of northern Colorado ...

As Mongabay reported, new research in Northern Germany shows invasive brown rats are attacking the winter hibernation sites of native bats. The findings, published by Global Ecology and Conservation, ...

MONROE, N.C. — Monroe Animal Control responded to a call about a rooster that “woke up and chose violence.” A rooster began pecking and attempted multiple “aerial attacks” on the mailman. Animal ...

A horse owner in Redding, California, was devastated to find that a mountain lion had killed her over-30-year-old horse. A KRCR report on the incident included blurred but still graphic photos. Chris ...

BREMERTON, Wash. — At least six people are recovering from injuries after attempting to break up a vicious dog attack in Kitsap County. Multiple neighbors told KOMO News the injured dog, a Rhodesian ...