Most countries pick something sensible for their national animal — the U.S. has the bald eagle Canada has the beaver and Australia has the kangaroo However, some countries looked at that playbook and ...

In the natural world, survival isn’t always about being the fastest or the strongest. Often, it is about having a trick that avoids a fight or solves a problem in a way that seems bizarre to humans.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Most people picture blood as red: bright and oxygen-rich ...

Walk around the Cincinnati Zoo for an hour or so and it’s easy to think of the place as a neighborhood. Sure, the neighbors hang from trees and poop in their living rooms, but the similarities to a ...

Here, ‘weirdness’ abounds. The platypus, for example, seemingly has the beak of a duck, the body of an otter, and the tail of a beaver. It lays leathery eggs like a reptile, yet feeds milk to its ...