The bear in the supermarket and the duck on the subway are bound to make you wonder what the heck is going on?!

Motherhood in the animal kingdom is a mixed bag. Take pregnancy: a female alpine salamander may gestate its young for as long ...

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, ...

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 ...

Evolution has produced a vast range ofanimal defense strategies, like heavy armor and camouflage abilities. However, nature is also capable of developing some truly odd protection strategies. The ...

When it comes to animals romancing in the wild, things get weird—really weird. Some animals offer bizarre gifts, some put on daring dances, and others? Well, let’s just say things get really messy.

Q. I enjoy learning about bizarre animals like the terrestrial one you recently wrote about called a hammerhead worm. With all the strange animals found on land, the oceans must be full of even more ...

Hyperactive fish, stupid frogs, fearless mice and seagulls that fall over. It sounds like a weird animal circus, but this is no freak show. Animals around the world are increasingly behaving in ...

Animals face a constant battle to survive, not just by finding food but by avoiding becoming food themselves. Over millions of years, evolution has produced a vast range of defense strategies, from ...