Humans have long experimented with nature, bending evolution to serve aesthetics, science, and curiosity. Some animals have been transformed so drastically that they seem more like art or engineering ...

An artist’s impression depicts Kryoryctes at Dinosaur Cove in Australia. New research supports the hypothesis that Kryoryctes is a common ancestor of both the platypus and echidna. - Peter Schouten ...

The Earth is home to some amazing animals, and many of them are well-known. Everybody knows how quick cheetahs are, how big elephants can grow, and how adorable chipmunks can be. But there are some ...

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, ...

The oddest Guinness World Records of 2025 include a skateboarding swine, a barefoot run across Legos and a man who fit 81 matches up his nose.

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(CNN) — The story of two of the strangest animals on the planet just got a little stranger, thanks to clues revealed by a lone fossil specimen that scientists now say represents a long-extinct ...