A newly identified clam eats limestone rock, turning it into sand.

Pangolins have one of the strangest tongues on Earth, stretching deep inside the body to reach ants far underground.

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Despite not looking much like one another, many do however closely resemble other species of animals that they are not ...

The ocean is full of surprises, and scientists are still finding creatures that seem almost unreal. From tiny reef animals to ...

Researchers report the first documented case of tool use in cattle, based on a Swiss Brown cow named Veronika who doesn’t just grab an object and rub it against herself.

We've compiled a list of weird animal behaviors we've amassed from the wild world web!

At first glance, this mammal looks like a horse gone terribly wrong. But, in reality, Chalicotherium is far from a botched ...

Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea ...

Following the eruption, one team had an idea to help recover from the devastation: send gophers on a day trip.

Hallucigenia was such an odd animal that palaeontologists reconstructed it upside-down when they first analysed its fossils - ...

“Let them eat cake”— Entertainers wearing dog masks and Rococo-era 18th-century European aristocratic court costumes danced ...