The Carolina coast has a seldom seen breed of squirrel that is 2 feet tall and weighs as much as a chihuahua. A state camera trap program is capturing images of these fox squirrels in remote areas. By Mark Price.

“It was hiding there, peeking down at us." By Sara C. Nelson.

It's called a muntjac, and the last time it appeared was nearly two decades ago.

The desert has its own version of Sasquatch, and it’s just as smelly and hairy. By Ken Layne.

It’s been nicknamed “the Clashindarroch Beast.” By Natasha Frost.

In 1940, John Steinbeck helped catalog wildlife in the Sea of Cortez. Now, a new creature lurks beneath the ultramarine waters. By Lauren J. Young.

The thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, believed extinct, had the quick wit of a killer new research reveals. By Gemma Tarlach.

The modern-day corpse of a human-like hominid, preserved in a block of ice, encountered by researchers in the 1960s, you say? Surely the zoological discovery of the century!  By Darren Naish.

There’s no such thing as a giant flying lizard that breathes fire. But the natural world has plenty of real dragons, and some of them can fly. By Ella Davies. (Apr. 26, 2015)

The horse deer was so rare it was said to be a myth. By Marshall Connolly.

When a creature mysteriously turns up dead in Alaska—be it a sea otter, polar bear, or humpback whale—veterinary pathologist Kathy Burek gets the call. Her necropsies reveal cause of death and causes for concern as climate change frees up new pathogens and other dangers in a vast, thawing north. By Christopher Solomon.

Scientists have rediscovered a mysterious marine invertebrate that was first identified over a century ago. By Tia Ghose.

Several other species of arapaimas are likely lurking in the Amazon, waiting to be identified. By Brian Clark Howard.

A bizarre creature with 13 legs and a head that expands like a balloon was spotted by a diver near Bali who wants to know what it is and if it’s safe to dive again. By Paul Seaburn.

One evening, when I was growing up on Exmoor, my father returned home with some news. He had just seen a large black cat – a panther, he supposed – on the horizon. He reported the sighting to the local farmer, who was not at all surprised, for he, too, had seen this ominous beast... Rupert Hawksley.