Plenty of college and pro sports teams are named after animals, so how are animals as athletes? You'll be pleasantly surprised by these strange animal sports.

Underneath your feet, deep in the Earth, the planet's final frontier awaits the most adventurous souls. Here are 20 extreme adventures for spelunkers and cavers.

When it comes to lending a helping hand, some surprising animals truly go above and beyond, not only for family but even humans and potential enemies.

Camouflage is not just for animals, plants do it too - but this is a unique new natural phenomena just discovered: a plant pretending to be sick and under attack.

In nature's fury, a whirlpool of extraordinary size or violence is a maelstrom. The swirling vortex is deadly. Here are 10 exquisite yet lethal maelstroms.

From geometrical faces carved by forces of nature to sleeping giants in the sea, these 18 strange yet amazing tricks of nature creatively mock man’s design.

Symbiotic pairs, camouflaged critters and color-changing animals are one thing, but what about exploding and raining animals? Oh yes, they exist and much much more.

Ridiculously cute and tiny creatures like the pygmy marmoset, bee hummingbird, mouse lemur and a cat that fits in a pint glass.

Some trees are just breathtakingly spectacular, whether by their size, age or shape or other unique characteristics - from the oldest to the largest and more.

The green technology industry is booming, and some eco inventions - like a biodegradable coffin coffee table - are just plain weird.

Some of the strangest, most amazing and most threatened species in the world. Some of these animals may appear harmless but are all too deadly while others ...

From ugly-but-life-saving to extraodinarily-beautiful-but-killer flowers, here are some of the most exotic or endangered plants, flowers, trees and forests in the world.

Unusual rotten meat corpse flowers, endangered plants, rare trees, unusual cactus and other bizarre flora threatened by global warming and deforestation.

It is mostly the cute and fuzzy endangered animals that flash across your television screen - but what about the strange, bizarre and ugly ones not normally featured?