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 ...

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 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 ...

Remember that video from last year of an orca tossing a sea lion 20 feet into the air? Well that whale’s got nothing on the pinniped-flipping abilities of this orca (skip to 00:29 for the action): "We ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Our planet is a busy, crazy place. And amidst all the noise, voices get lost and some stories are never heard. That’s especially true of our planet’s countless wild species: big and small, threatened ...

It's all about trees in our South African home base this week as the country celebrates Arbor Week. To mark the occasion, we're dedicating this Top 10 to our favourite trees from across the African ...

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 ...

This story originally appeared on bioGraphic, an online magazine about science and sustainability powered by the California Academy of Sciences. The first time Bruno D’Amicis set out to photograph ...

It was an overcast morning on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia last Saturday when conservation officers for the Way Kambas National Park came upon the newest member of a nearly extinct species resting ...