Animals

Megalodons, the huge prehistoric sharks depicted in movies such as “The Meg,” had more slender bodies than was previously thought, according to a…

On the edge of a dark, suburban park in Brisbane, teams of volunteer toad-catchers gather around Gary King as he shoves another squirming specimen…

The world’s “oldest ever dog” Bobi, who died in October reportedly aged 31, has provisionally lost his title as Guinness World Records (GWR)…

The largest ape on record stood almost 10 feet tall (3 meters) and weighed nearly twice as much as a…

Dinosaurs are all around us, figuratively and literally…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Long before the first sharks appeared, large predator worms were the “terror beasts” of the seas more…

The art of nodding off appears to have been mastered by breeding chinstrap penguins, who take more than 10,000 naps a day, with each nap lasting an…

Conservationists have discovered two kiwi chicks in Wellington, the first wild births recorded for the bird in the New Zealand capital in over 150…

CNN Words by Gabrielle Jones; video by Jo Munnik, CNN (CNN) — Off the coast of South Africa lies the Great African Sea Forest, home to one of…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Of all 14,669 varieties of plants and animals found in Europe that were registered on the International Union…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The cause of mysterious mass deaths of African elephants has finally been unraveled — and scientists who authored…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The heads of most animals are easily identifiable, but scientists haven’t been able to say the same for sea…

Hundreds of millions of years ago, jawless fishes swam Earth’s seas, their brains protected on the outside by armored skin, and on the inside by…

By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — The dramatic ocean saga that led to three men being rescued this week from a sinking inflatable catamaran off the…