Nature hides some remarkably convincing impostors among its ranks, creatures with armored scales, gliding wings, and ...

Real Creatures That Convince People They Have Entered a Fairy Tale World ...

A fishing trip of the California coast last week produced an extraordinary catch: a type of octopus that constructs its own shell to ride ocean currents.

From the Loch Ness monster to Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch, to the jackalope of the U.S. West, mythical animals have long captured human imagination. Some people are so fascinated with mythical ...

Some of the wildest legends may actually be rooted in reality. Ancient people didn't have science textbooks, just bones in the dirt and stories passed around the fire, and sometimes, those stories ...

A new outdoor exhibition brings towering, hand-painted alebrijes to the Garden through late September, the first time these Mexican folk art sculptures have landed in a botanical garden or anywhere on ...