The animal world is full of amazing creatures. Whether it’s giant panda fertility, wombat droppings, or mammals with toxic ...

The unusual facts won’t help you on a test ... Keep going for a mix of dumb animal facts, obscure history, and stuff so random you’ll wonder how anyone found it out in the first place.

Here’s one for your weird nature facts: the red parasol moss Splachnum rubrum grows only on moose poop. This pretty little moss, less attractively known as dung moss, makes its life on animal ...

The new exhibit shows off the less mentioned aspects of nature: the weird, the odd, and the utterly disgusting. From vomiting to pooping, all the animal facts and behaviours left unmentioned in ...

That's one of the largest size differences between males and females—called sexual size dimorphism—in the animal kingdom ... Another unusual aspect of the blanket octopus: It’s immune ...

The strange physiology of these short limbs has given rise to several competing hypotheses about the ancient animal's behavior. The small limbs' orientation may have made them useless for ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. A majestic piebald elk captured in photos isn’t quite one in a million, but it ...