(Image: George Shaw and F.P. Nodder)When European explorers wandered the most remote regions of the world, they brought back stories of strange creatures. One of those stories was of a bizarre hybrid animal from Australi...

(Photo: Tom Phillips)What's in a snout? A lot. Jon Tennant, a doctoral researcher at Imperial College London, surveyed the shapes of the snouts of different cud-chewing animals. He found that both blunt and pointed snout...

(Photo: Frank Fox)You can close your mouth, but your lips, however tighly sealed, are still a gap. It's a different situation for the Hydra viridissima. The hydra's mouth disappears at the cellular level when closed. Ed...

(Photo: Abdeljebbar Qninba)Mogador is an island off the coast of Morocco. In 2014, Abdeljebbar Qninba, a biologist at Mohammed V University in Rabat observed falcons capturing smaller birds, plucking off their tail and w...

(Video Link)Drawing is a skill that comes really easy to some people, and with time and practice they are able to render hand drawn illustrations on a masterful level, but a select few are actually born with the ability...

Paul Gervais was a renowned French paleontologist...  ...leontologist and entomologist, and a professor of zoology at the Sorbonne. He also had a medical degree. Ge...  ...uced a supplemental volume of illustrations for a zoology encyclopedia in 1844 called Atlas de Zoologie : o...

The adorable little critters known as hyrax may look like they don't have a lot going on in their tiny little heads, but it turns out they are master communicators who use a complex language complete with regional dialec...