As silly as platypuses look, you certainly wouldn’t want to get on the bad side of one. One of the fun facts about animals that look innocent, like the platypus, is their strange defense mechanisms.

In other words, domesticated animals do love their owners. (How's that for feel-good science?) In case you need more convincing, here are other research-backed facts that prove animals really do love ...

Snakes can see heat, have incredible jaw flexibility, and aren’t as mean as we think. Discover 10 cool facts about these ...

Animals with smaller bodies and faster metabolism see in slow motion. 7. Dogs' sense of smell is about 100,000 times stronger than humans', but they have just one-sixth our number of taste buds.

The world’s first penguin biologist to study a large colony of the animals up close, George Murray Levick, was marooned in 1911 for almost a year on Cape Adare in Antarctica, the site of the world’s ...

Quick facts about whales. Where they live: In oceans around the world What they eat: A huge range of animals, from tiny plankton to giant squid How big they are: Between 7 and 100 feet (2 to 30 ...

The Kalahari Meerkat Project is the longest running project operating under the Kalahari Research Centre. The research team is focused on understanding the evolution of cooperative behavior within the ...

Read on for facts about 25 animals that have already gone extinct, from the passenger pigeon to the dusky seaside sparrow. First discovered in 1494, Caribbean monk seals were hunted for their blubber.

5 fast facts about dolphins. Dolphins use tools to find food.Some dolphins cover their beaks with sponges while searching for food on the seafloor. Others use empty shells to trap fish.

14 Fun Facts About Frightening Animals. From snakes that eat their prey alive to primates that inject their peers with flesh-rotting venom, these are the scariest deeds committed by critters.