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.

Researchers reveal Prototaxites, a giant Devonian fossil, was not a fungus or plant but a unique extinct lineage.

They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the biggest ... Occasionally, these whales have been found covered in strange, circular scars that result from deep-sea battles ...

Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...

In 2007, a team led by Stanford geobiologist Kevin Boyce found that carbon isotopes in the fossils resembled those of fungi — ...

Reports of a dinosaur-like beast known as the Mokele-mbembe are on the rise in The Democratic Republic of Congo ...

They put the behemoths in the hold along with the rhinos, the hippos and the elephants. It was a sensible decision to use ...

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 2022, researchers at NOAA were surveying the Great Lake when they spotted strange circular depressions ... been around 2.5 billion years ago on Earth. "Much like early Earth, microorganisms ...

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