The Goliath birdeater ( Theraphosa blondi) is the world’s largest spider, with a leg span up to 30 cm (12 in). Its hairy, ...

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With its long snout and lightning-fast jaws, the goblin shark looks like something from a nightmare — but it’s actually a gentle deep-sea dweller. Living thousands of feet below the surface, this rare ...

Aye-ayes have extra-long, bony middle fingers. As the animals move along tree branches at night, they tap the wood rapidly with their long fingers, listening for subtle changes in the echoes that ...

There was a time when the balloons in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade weren't inflated billboards for terrible movies and cartoons. Eighty years ago, the balloons were instead weird animals and ...