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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Upside-down giants with record-breaking lifespans, baobabs are the continent's (and possibly the planet's) most iconic and outlandish trees. Add to that their towering bulk, fire-resistant bark ...

For conservation biologists, a day at the office might mean milking a molerat, tickling wombat genitals or lending a "helping hand" to masturbating maqaques – and with the popularity of Twitter ...

Firefighters in Montana have uncovered the cause of a fire that burned some 40 acres of grassland earlier this week. The blaze was sparked by a series of unfortunate events – involving a snake ...

Aah, the hazards faced by wildlife photographers ... Hazard #168: Getting punched by an 'intoxicated' mountain gorilla. Photographer Christophe Courteau was taking snaps of mountain gorillas in ...

Mosquitoes. Hordes of them, buzzing in your ears and biting incessantly, a maddening nuisance without equal. And not to mention the devastating health impacts caused by malaria, Zika virus and ...

Earlier this month, the CT scanner at the Washington University School of Medicine received some unusual patients: two Triceratops skulls! By probing the interior of the fossils, these scans will ...

A male jaguar called El Jefe ("The Boss") has been in the news a lot lately. He's the only known wild representative of his kind in the United States, and his turf – the Santa Rita Mountains of ...

Big cats – like lions, leopards and tigers – are among the few animals with enough brawn and moxie to take on a full-grown crocodilian. While these predators certainly target the occasional ...