Mongabay’s most successful videos are about weird animals. But not every video from the environmental newsroom can be about ...

The Arctic whales are the only known animals with straight tusks, and ones that consistently twist to the left. New research ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Platypuses are monotremes, one of the oldest branches of mammals, and they reproduce by laying eggs instead of giving birth to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Endangered Pink Fairy Armadillo, the world's smallest armadillo species, adapted to sandy ...

It's not only humans that do some sketchy, questionable stuff. Animals in the wild have their own peculiarities, too, and these weird animal behaviors usually don't go unnoticed. And by weird, we ...

Let’s see a show of hands, Pandas: how many of you love animals? Uh-huh, uh-huh, it’s just as we suspected—a whopping 159% of you are huge fans of the animal kingdom! Whether it’s cats, dogs, rabbits, ...

Whenever I pick up a fantasy novel or start a new video game, the first things that grab my attention are the characters and monsters. The stranger and more imaginative these beasts are, the more ...

Axolotls are adorable, but did you know they can actually regrow parts of their brain? And why does a tiny toad give birth in a manner that David Cronenberg would find inspirational? Evolution, of ...

Find out why these common animal myths aren't true. Animals do some pretty strange things. Giraffes clean their eyes and ears with their tongues. Snakes see through their eyelids. Some snails can ...

The animal kingdom is a weird, wonderful and sometimes quite gory place. There are ants that farm aphids and lizards that deter predators by squirting blood from their eyes. While many of these ...

India is home to a disparate and enthralling biodiversity. Beyond the known wildlife of carnivores and myriad other species, India is home to peculiar wilderness that is lesser-known but endemic to ...