Eerie Evolution
Halloween Quiz Time: Let's play 'Guess the skull!'
A bit of animal anatomy, a sprinkling of rhyme and a line-up of beautifully illustrated skulls to put your sleuthing skills to the test. We've put...
one year ago
Deep Ocean
Why does this 'cosmic jelly' have upside-down tentacles? (Video)
This deep-sea oddball just turned up off American Samoa!
3 years ago
Fossils
The nasty eating habits of prehistory's meanest fish
Once upon a time, the biggest, meanest, scariest predator in the ocean was an armoured monster named Dunkleosteus.
3 years ago
Predator vs Prey
These jellyfish-riding lobsters have deadly stingers all wrapped up
How these hardcore lobster larvae survive on a risky diet of venomous jellyfish holds clues for sustainable farming, researchers say.
3 years ago
WTF!?
Green woodpecker tongues are so long they wrap around their skulls
The green woodpecker's tongue is so long that it has to coil behind the skull, over the eyes and into the right nostril just to fit inside the bird's...
3 years ago
Eerie Evolution
Watch a parasitic botfly larva pop out of a mouse's crotch
This one might not be for the squeamish...
3 years ago
How it works
The goblin shark's slingshot jaws are the fastest of any shark species
No feature contributes to the goblin shark's ghoulish appearance more than its pair of extendible jaws. And now we know exactly how they work.
3 years ago
WTF!?
Experts explain the Siberian 'mine demon'
Sorry, no dinosaurs here.
3 years ago
Discoveries
Rare 'Pinocchio' lizard spotted in Ecuador (VIDEO)
It's tough work tracking down a creature that's so elusive it was thought extinct for over 40 years. Feast your eyes on Ecuador's Pinocchio anole!
3 years ago
Sharks
TBT: That time a shark we'd never heard of made a deep-sea cameo
This 2014 footage captured 2,200 metres beneath the surface shows the strange, deep-dwelling Greenland shark ... or does it?
4 years ago
WTF!?
Buried surprise turns into creepy-looking stargazer in Virginia
Now that's a face only a mother could love!
4 years ago
Discoveries
'Falkor' fish seen alive for the first time (VIDEO)
It might vaguely resemble the internet's favourite luckdragon, but this rare fish is just ten centimetres long.
4 years ago
Mutants and Freaks
These are not the Russian mutant frogs you're looking for
A team of Russian scientists has discovered mutant frogs with see-through skin and pink bones – or so the internet will have you believe.
4 years ago
How it works
This rainbow wonder is one of the world's weirdest worms
Deep below the ocean's surface lives a mouse that isn't a mouse, covered in fur that isn't fur, that spends its days crawling around on legs that...
4 years ago
WTF!?
Scorpion babies are creepy-crawly nightmare cargo only a mother could love
It might not be the first animal that skitters to mind when you think of parental devotion, but the scorpion is actually noted for its maternal...
4 years ago
