Across the world, humans have told stories of creatures so strange and powerful they blur the line between myth and reality. Some may be echoes of ancient animals long extinct, while others reflect ...

As such, researchers at Cambridge University and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have been studying tiny ancient fossils ...

Scientists continue to discover animals that seem almost too strange to be real. Even with shrinking habitats and climate ...

Some of the wildest legends may actually be rooted in reality. Ancient people didn’t have science textbooks, just bones in the dirt and stories passed around the fire, and sometimes, those stories ...

A mysterious example of Indigenous rock art from South Africa may depict a "strange" animal that lived more than 200 million years ago and went extinct long before the appearance of the first humans, ...

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.

In an age of exhausting AI-generated videos and manipulated images purporting to showcase real marine life that have never been seen by human eyes, it's easy to forget that there are actually ...

At first sight they look exactly like the real thing – cute, cuddly and in some cases terrifying creatures of the wild. It’s only when you take a closer look that you realise the stars of BBC1’s ...