"Everyone in the control room let out a loud 'Oooooh!' at the same time. We were all enchanted," a researcher said.

Throughout the world, there are creatures that haven't evolved for millions of years, and these eight living fossils ...

For example, vampire bats in the subfamily Desmodontinae helped inspire the legendary monsters that bear their name and no one can forget blood-sucking mosquitoes and leeches. Many are also familiar ...

Whether it’s a Bigfoot sighting or an encounter with the chilling Wendigo of northern Minnesota, American mythology teems ...

When the going gets tough, these strange sea creatures have the incredibly rare ability to turn back the clock and revert to ...

An expedition to a volcanically active ridge in the Pacific off South America has revealed worms, snails, giant tubeworms and other strange creatures ... in the journal Nature Communications.

Sometimes nature goes to creative lengths, though, when making exceptions in how these animals survive. Take the jumping spider Evarcha culicivora, which does not directly feed on blood.

The research published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications. In this photo provided by Schmidt Ocean Institute, a rock crust sample, upside down, reveals Oasisia and Riftia tubeworms ...