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 ...

Nature always has the potential to outdo human imagination. From across oceans, forests, deserts, and isolated islands, there are actual living creatures strange enough to appear mythical. They have ...

Even before the release of Jurassic World Rebirth, one key element was huge in its marketing: the dinosaurs. While these revived prehistoric creatures have always been essential to the fabric of the ...

Real guppies respond to Robofish—a 3D-printed plastic model with a vaguely realistic paint job—as if it were a real schoolmate. Researchers used different-sized Robofish to show that guppy schools ...

Far below the ocean’s surface, where sunlight disappears and pressure reaches crushing levels, some of the planet’s strangest life forms thrive. These deep-sea creatures have evolved in total darkness ...

Royal Oak — The Detroit Zoo is stepping up from the lions, tigers and bears it is known for and adding dragons, griffins and phoenixes to its lineup this summer. The zoo this weekend opened Dragon ...

Several weekends ago, I watched the film “Wicked.” I was totally captivated and had eaten about three times as much popcorn as I intended when an evil new teacher named Professor Nikidik arrived at ...