an eruption of life when Earth’s very first animals began appearing in the fossil record — the ancestors of all major animal groups that we know today. The Cambrian sea was a very strange and ...

From its duck-like bill to its venomous spur, the platypus is one of the strangest animals on Earth. Discover the bizarre biology and surprising features that make this creature truly one of a kind.

Female Asian hermit spiders gobble up their partners after mating, so males detach their penises and sometimes offer up an amputated leg to escape. Throughout the night, great potoos emit a loud ...

Earliest Days of Earth's Formation Mar. 26, 2025 — New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in ...

A very strange marine life encounter caught on video ... Of the approximately 300 species of octopus scattered across every ocean on Earth, the vast majority of them live on the seafloor, with ...

In a study published in Systematic Biology, researchers from Imperial College London, UCL, Dalhousie University and the ...

Narrator: The Mariana Trench is the deepest point on Earth. So deep that if you dropped ... Yet, somehow, life finds a way. Very weird life. The truth is, at first glance... Douglas Bartlett ...

A series of apparently unconnected crises among animal populations around the world turns out to be linked by water. The fourth hour of Strange Days on Planet Earth examines the evidence that ...

Strange Days on Planet Earth is a multi-year landmark undertaking ... They find that antelope numbers have plummeted along with large animals like lions and leopards that used to keep olive ...