Native to the lush jungles of the Amazon, this crazy creature was caught on film by scientist and wildlife photographer Andreas Kay. Aptly known as the "snake mimic caterpillar", what you're looking ...

When entomologist and renowned photographer Piotr Naskrecki posted images of long-winged bats plagued by facehuggers, he caused a bit of a stir. At first glance, the strange creatures look like ...

Last week, we posted in detail about the rule violations that led to a shark-diving accident off Mexico's Guadalupe Island. Shortly afterwards, a second accident (featured in a YouTube video) went ...

An adult African rock python can weigh at least three times as much as your average honey badger, but what the badger lacks in size, it more than makes up for in daring ferocity. This python-badger ...

Orcas have made a name for themselves as master food flingers, but a video from Florida shows that their much smaller cousins also have a knack for flipping prey to new heights. The footage was ...

Long before enormous sharks like the great white, long before even the giant marine reptiles of the Age of Dinosaurs, in a world where animal life had only just begun to leave the seas, the biggest, ...

When a new video of catfish patrolling the cooling pond of the Chernobyl power plant surfaced online earlier this month, it didn't take long for the usual cries of "monster fish!" to follow. Yes, the ...

Snakes occupy a particularly negative position in human consciousness. They are seen as mindless, anti-social, malevolent creatures. Something to be feared and difficult to relate to. A recent finding ...

The biggest freshwater predator in South America is the mighty black caiman, which vies with the American alligator as the largest member of the alligatorid branch of the crocodilian family tree.

Octopuses generally shun contact with other octopuses, preferring to spend most of their lives alone. But 50 feet below the waves in Australia's Jervis Bay, a group of octopuses is regularly seen ...

Science communicator Preeti Desai happened upon the decaying fish during a recent outing at a beach in Texas City. Viewing the serpentine silhouette from afar, she initially mistook the creature for a ...

Almost everything about the goblin shark reflects the harshness of the dark underworld it calls home. With nutrients so hard to come by in the deep sea, energy savings have meant cutbacks in the ...