Humans have long experimented with nature, bending evolution to serve aesthetics, science, and curiosity. Some animals have been transformed so drastically that they seem more like art or engineering ...

An artist’s impression depicts Kryoryctes at Dinosaur Cove in Australia. New research supports the hypothesis that Kryoryctes is a common ancestor of both the platypus and echidna. - Peter Schouten ...

Head to the Pacific coast and you may encounter a gumboot chiton – a blob-like marine mollusc known affectionately as the ...

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(CNN) — The story of two of the strangest animals on the planet just got a little stranger, thanks to clues revealed by a lone fossil specimen that scientists now say represents a long-extinct ...