It might look like a dinosaur, but this strange, newly-discovered Triassic reptile belongs to the evolutionary lineage that ...

Living in the shadow of an active volcano is nerve-wracking – but the residents of Stromboli face another challenge ...

The title of the hairiest animal goes to the sea otter, whose luxurious fur, according to a 2010 study, comprises a phenomenal 100- 160,000 hairs per square centimetre (an adult probably sports more ...

Measuring just three millimetres long, it would be easy to miss Thecacera sesame – a species of sea slug – on the colourful ...

Capable of growing bigger than a full-size snooker table and weighing as much as a polar bear, this is a river monster with a serious sting in its tail. Getty. What is the world's ...

While it may be possible to ‘resurrect’ some extinct species, such as the woolly mammoth or the dodo, bringing back dinosaurs from 66 million years ago and beyond is currently ...

Deep-sea researchers exploring underwater mountains near the Galápagos Islands have discovered a new species of octopus – and it could fit in the palm of your hand. The female octopus was first ...

Other notable formations include Elephant Butte, which resembles a gigantic pachyderm; Three Sisters, a group of slender ...

This deep-sea eel looks like an awkward duck, has more vertebrae than any other creature and has a very lazy way of catching ...

Long, arboreal and often dazzlingly green, the boomslang looks more like a vine with eyes than a killer. Yet this member of ...

While diving in the Salish Sea, between the Canadian province of British Columbia and the US state of Washington, underwater ...

Without mobility, the calf stood no chance, but again and again it crumpled to the ground like Bambi on ice. Mum groomed and ...