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 ...

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 ...

A female hiker was killed by a mountain lion Thursday on the Crosier Mountain trail in Larimer County, Colorado, according to ...

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 ...

From a swan leading police on a highway chase to a bear inspecting porch packages, Central Florida experienced a series of unusual animal encounters in 2025.

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 ...