Let’s face it, some animals have cooler names than others. For example, how could the blobfish ever hope to compete with the ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the ...

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11 Animals with Surprisingly Misleading Names. ... and more land, ... Deer are prey animals, and they spend their lives watching for threats.

African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which they are separated by millions of years of evolution. Nevertheless, Asian ...

A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding could upend what’s known of their evolution.