Most countries pick something sensible for their national animal — the U.S. has the bald eagle Canada has the beaver and Australia has the kangaroo However, some countries looked at that playbook and ...

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 ...

Nature doesn’t always play by the rules. For every majestic lion or elegant eagle, there’s a creature so bizarre it looks like a science experiment gone rogue. Some animals are evolutionary oddities, ...

Discover some of the more unusual collective nouns for different groups of animals, from ‘a bloat of hippopotamuses’ to ‘a ...

Some animals are so unusual that they barely look real, and transparent creatures are among the strangest of them all. These ...

Forget fluffy puppies and purring kittens; some people have a fondness for the truly peculiar when it comes to their animal companions. We’re talking about creatures that'll make you raise an eyebrow ...

As the heavy slab was levered up with a grunt, a strange, elongated pink creature was revealed. At first glance, it looked a ...

Springhares are the latest in a flurry of furry creatures that scientists have discovered are biofluorescent The Antarctic bird has leucism, meaning its feathers do not contain melanin needed to ...

Seaweed, a 6-year-old Cocker Spaniel and Shepherd rescue, owned by Peter Cavanaugh of Ulster Park, took first place with 36 votes in the 2026 Freeman Pet Contest Weirdest Pet category. Seaweed is a ...

Researchers have discovered two new species of jellyfish off Western Australia's northwest coast. One is particularly peculiar: It's larger than its cousins, doesn't have tentacles and is, according ...

Platypuses are weird looking. They look like someone stitched together a duck and a beaver—flat bill, webbed feet, and a broad tail. But their appearance isn’t even the strangest thing about them. Not ...