seriously), these pets make your average goldfish look downright boring. Let’s take a peek at some of the weirdest pets people are proudly calling family.

Creatures don't have to be cute, cuddly or beautiful to be well adapted. Check out the weird features of these strange critters. For them, being ugly helps them to ...

So, if you get bit by this teeny tiny creature, be prepared for a world of pain. These weird animals can be found in warm waters all across the globe, even washing up on Texas beaches in recent years.

If there was a prize for the world’s strangest cephalopods, we’re pretty sure argonauts would win ... In fact, way back in the fourth century BCE, the philosopher Aristotle suggested in his work The ...

‘The world’s most important animal fossils’ The ... in incredible detail, the strange animals from our distant past. Typically, only bone or hard shells become fossilized over millions ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. 'The Majoron' — a bizarre particle that's its own opposite — could explain the biggest ...

Well, one of the loudest animals in the world is a shrimp that is just 2cm ... To be fair, very few things about platypi aren’t weird. These Australian mammals are part of a mostly-extinct ...

The Hispaniolan common tree frog is common in the Dominican Republic, the RSPCA says A frog that travelled 4,000 miles (6,400km) in a bunch of bananas was among one of the strangest animal rescues ...