Evolution has produced a vast range ofanimal defense strategies, like heavy armor and camouflage abilities. However, nature is also capable of developing some truly odd protection strategies. The ...

Have you by any chance come across a flock of birds or a swarm of backyard pests and your first thought was what do we call ...

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 ...

Taxonomists have already named at least eight new animal species from the deep sea in the first half of 2026, spanning venomous jellyfish, tiny crustaceans, and an entirely new family of copepods.

Animals often surprise us, but some abilities go beyond simple curiosity. Every now and then, researchers come across a trait that raises more questions than answers. Even with modern tools like ...

The discovery, in a bizarre animal not closely related to birds, could change how scientists think about the origin of feathers. The holotype fossil of Mirasaura, which was found in 1939 in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Scientists estimate there are over 8 million animal species ...

WASHINGTON — Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures that ...

Recent estimates have come to the consensus that our planet hosts roughly six million species. But new research reveals that those counts may be drastically underestimated After Decades of Debate, ...