Stunningly intact giant squid washes ashore in South Africa By Laura Geggel The giant squid's esophagus goes through its brain.
Ancient Cambrian shrimp with dozens of dagger legs looked unlike anything alive today By Laura Geggel It had a boomerang-like head shield and dozens of legs studded with daggers.
Ancient crocodile walked on two legs By Laura Geggel This ancient croc's legs were likely as long as a human's.
Triassic sea monster was about to birth three little monsters before she died By Laura Geggel The ichthyosaur and her unborn babies lived about 246 million years ago.
Here's exactly how T. rex grew from a slender tot into a massive carnivore By Laura Geggel Humongous T. rexes might not be as old as they seem.
Mysterious scars on Hawaiian shark could be sign of giant squid attack By Brandon Specktor Photographs of a shark bearing strange, circular scars could be evidence of a rare giant squid encounter, researchers say.
Great white sharks are bottom-feeders, at least when they're little By Rafi Letzter Great white sharks are fierce hunters. But as juveniles, their diets involve way more bottom-feeding than hunting large prey.
Why these rattlesnakes are declining at an alarming rate By Karl Larsen, Marcus Atkins Rattlesnakes are threatened in British Columbia in Canada, and many populations are declining at alarming rates.
Snake eels stage stomach-bursting escape after being eaten (and then things get really nasty) By Mindy Weisberger After snake eels are swallowed by bigger fish, they can burst out of their predators' stomachs ... to freedom? Not exactly.
These gorgeous, intricate sea creatures are actually giant blobs of snot By Yasemin Saplakoglu Teeny-tiny sea creatures secrete snotty blobs from cells on their heads to build their oversized mucus dwellings.
Elephant in India dies after possibly eating fruit stuffed with explosives By Jeanna Bryner A pregnant wild elephant in Kerala, India, died on May 27, possibly due to an explosion in her mouth after she ate a fruit stuffed with firecrackers.
Best-preserved dinosaur stomach ever found reveals 'sleeping dragon's' last meal By Laura Geggel Just like a toddler, this dinosaur was a picky eater.
Cambrian fossils show oldest example of parasites in action By Mindy Weisberger Fossil brachiopods from China were crusted with parasites, which may have hijacked their hosts' feeding structures in order to steal their dinner.
Scientists capture the world's deepest octopus on video. And it's adorable. By Yasemin Saplakoglu The octopus was found miles beneath the ocean surface.
Last-known video of 'Tasmanian tiger' rediscovered By Laura Geggel Rediscovered footage of a thylacine taken in 1935 is the last-known recording of the marsupial, which went extinct in 1936.
Allosaurus cannibalized its own kind, grim new fossils reveal By Brandon Specktor Researchers studied bite marks on more than 2,000 dinosaur bones and found that some of them were cannibalized.
Meet Goliath, a Massive Tadpole as Long as Your Face By Mindy Weisberger A giant tadpole recently found in the wild is bigger than a can of Coke — and it's still growing.
Loon stabs bald eagle to death By Laura Geggel A loon stabbed a bald eagle in the heart, killing it. Here's why.
Why bats don't get sick from the viruses they carry, but humans can By Livia O. Loureiro Bats carry a lot of viruses, some of which make people sick. So why don't bats get sick from these pathogens?
Pollen-starved bumblebees bite 'half-moons' into plants to make them bloom By Nicoletta Lanese Scientists don't yet know when or how the behavior evolved.
