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Black rain frog: The bizarre, grumpy-faced amphibian that's terrible at jumping and swimmingThe funny-looking puffed up frog is only found on the forested slopes of the southern Cape fold mountains in South Africa and spends most of its time underground.
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Enormous Burmese python killed in Florida Everglades was about to lay 60 eggsInvasive pythons across the state are about to start laying their eggs after spring's mating season, with the 16-foot (5 meter) female caught being no exception.
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Great white sharks are moving north. New NatGeo SharkFest show explains whyThe great white shark population off in the North Atlantic plummeted during the 20th century — but the species is now making a major comeback, and recolonizing its former home.
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'I knew it was circling me': Man attacked by shark was waiting to die, then dolphins saved his lifeNatGeo Sharkfest episode focuses on stories of whales and dolphins saving people from sharks. But are they really trying to protect us?
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Great whites are dining on other sharks instead of seals, researchers discover in NatGeo showThe SharkFest episode delves into the diets of the famed aerial-hunting great white sharks of South Africa's Mossel Bay — and seals are barely on the menu.
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Missing Titanic submersible: Banging sounds heard in search for lost sub TitanThe sounds were coming at 30-minute intervals, according to an internal email update sent by the Department of Homeland Security's National Operations Center, which could mean the passengers on board are still alive.
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Deadly cyclone unearths fossils of giant marine creatures that lived 80 million years ago"It's like a giant has walked down the stream-bed, kicking at rocks and boulders as if they were pebbles," Pete Shaw, forest manager of the Forest Lifeforce Restoration Trust, said in a statement.
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Enormous 240 million-year-old sea monster had its head torn off in one clean biteAnalysis of bite marks on Tanystropheus hydroides, which lived during the Middle Triassic, showed another predator had attacked from above and torn its neck in two.
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Watch cannibal crab gobble up baby crablets in Australia in David Attenborough's 'Our Planet II'The rare footage was taken when filming the red crab migration on Christmas Island.
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Primates have been masturbating for at least 40 million yearsResearchers reconstructed the evolutionary origins of primate masturbation and found it was an ancestral trait that goes back to the ancestor of all monkeys and apes.
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'Virgin birth' recorded in crocodile for 1st time everThe American crocodile had been isolated in a reptile park enclosure for 16 years when she laid a clutch of eggs.
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Burmese pythons are helping rats take over Florida's Everglades — and that could help spread diseaseThe invasion of pythons has had little to no impact on cotton rats, explaining why some areas are now increasingly dominated by rodents.
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The Tunguska event was the biggest asteroid impact in recorded history. How did it vanish without a trace?During the Tunguska event, over 8 million trees covering an area of 830 square miles were flattened when an asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere.
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Shark launches 3 attacks on surfer in Australia, in deadly and 'atypical' encounterThe victim was surfing off the coast of South Australia when a shark dragged him under. Bits of wetsuit were later found.
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Yellowstone volcano super-eruptions appear to involve multiple explosive eventsThe last caldera-forming eruption at Yellowstone "was much more complex than previously thought," according to the annual report about activity at the supervolcano.
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NASA spots sign of El Niño from space: 'If it's a big one, the globe will see record warming'The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite recorded Kelvin waves moving eastward across the Pacific — a phenomenon often considered a precursor to El Niño.
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Weird demon shark with bright white eyes discovered off AustraliaThe shark Apristurus ovicorrugatus was identified as a new species over a decade after the first mystery egg cases were found in a Western Australian museum collection.
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Elusive cannibal fish from the twilight zone are washing up on Oregon beaches and no one knows whyOregon State Parks said several lancetfish have washed up on beaches in recent weeks in a highly unusual spate of strandings.
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Deadly spiders that can kill in minutes and survive underwater are hiding out in swimming poolsHeavy rain in Australia has led to an influx in venomous spiders being washed into people's swimming pools. Species found include funnel-web spiders, the venom of which is so toxic it can kill a child in just 15 minutes.
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Photo shows 'massive' great white shark scarred after rare battle with 2 serial killer orcasA pair of orcas off the coast of South Africa have been ripping open sharks and feasting on their livers for the last eight years. A great white shark that survived an attack by the serial killer brothers has now been identified through huge scars across its massive body.
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Most powerful solar storm in 6 years caused auroras all over the US. And nobody saw it coming.A severe geomagnetic storm from a huge hole in the sun's corona caused a massive disturbance in Earth's magnetic field. The surprise event sparked auroras as far south as Alabama and northern California.
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Alien mothership lurking in our solar system could be watching us with tiny probes, Pentagon official suggestsA draft paper by a Harvard scientist and the head of the Pentagon’s UFO office has raised the idea an alien mothership could be in the solar system, sending out tiny probes dubbed "dandelion seeds" to explore the planets within.
