The rare all-white orca whale was spotted swimming with its pod. Photo by E. Lazareva / Newscom On a summer morning in 2010, off ...

The unusual appearance of this egg-laying, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed mammal baffled European naturalists when they first ...

Devil's Tower, deemed the first national monument by Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, is an igneous intrusion which rises 1,267 feet abov...

The Ground pangolin (Manis temminckii), also known as Temminck's Pangolin or the Cape Pangolin, is one of four species of pangolin w...

Redwood trees are ancient giants, the tallest living beings on the Earth, reaching heights of up to 360 feet (100+ meters). Redw...

Blue whales are the largest animals ever known to have lived on Earth. These magnificent marine mammals rule the oceans at up to 100 fee...

Titanoboa  was one gigantic snake. It lived around 58 to 60 million years ago, a scant several million years after the mass extinction t...

The great cat is disappearing throughout its range because of habitat loss and illegal hunting, but an innovative scientist in India m...

Lithops,(commonly called "flowering stones" or "living stones") are true mimicry plants: their shape, size and color c...

The flower with the world's largest bloom is the Rafflesia arnoldii. This rare flower is found in the rainforests of Indonesia. It can ...