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Barreleye fish are named for their unique, barrel-shaped eyes. These eyes can rotate, allowing the fish to look both upward and straight ahead. Their eyes also have bright green lenses protected ...

Nature doesn’t always play by the rules. For every majestic lion or elegant eagle, there’s a creature so bizarre it looks like a science experiment gone rogue. Some animals are evolutionary oddities, ...

The animal kingdom is full of interesting and wacky creatures. For every overly cute creature like the Shawn-the-sheep nudibranch, there are strange and weird creatures like the red-fronted lemur.

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(Brian Wolly) Food can be scarce in the deep waters off Australia. To clutch its prey, this dragonfish uses sharp rows of teeth that cover even parts of its tongue. The fish is one of thousands of ...