That’s right, when a velvet worm senses a meal is in reach, or a foe is close by, they rear up and brandish two appendages ...

It's time for the misfits and downright eccentrics of the animal kingdom to get the attention they fully deserve.

Ryan Reynolds breaks down the superhero inspirations behind his new Nat Geo series including how Deadpool is basically an axolotl and Wolverine could have been a honey badger.

New research says long-billed curlews listen to alarm barks from prairie dog colonies to protect themselves from predators.

Like a page out of a child’s storybook, a coyote and a badger trot side by side ... just like I can have a friendship with a dog, they can, too,” she says. “It’s not just a human thing ...