This enormous underwater creature has been named after the iconic villain of the Star Wars franchise.
The island was captured on satellite imagery in the Caspian Sea off the coast of Azerbaijan.
Stories of large or exotic cats in the British Isles are backed by genuine cases of such animals ending up in the wild.
Researchers in California were shocked to observe the animals actively hunting down and eating live prey.
The video shows the enormous serpent slithering from side to side with its huge belly protruding from the water.
A new study aims to observe the behaviors of goats, dogs and other animals in an effort to predict natural disasters.
Biologist Prof Tim Coulson has suggested that one species in particular has the potential to dominate the planet.
Animals are likely to get drunk on fermenting fruit much more often than previously thought.
Clusters of strange egg-like objects were recently hauled out of the water by volunteers in the city of Utrecht.
Captivating footage captured during a deep-sea expedition shows a very unusual-looking creature.
The ancient seed, which was found in the desert decades ago, has grown into a healthy tree.
Something in the ocean's deepest recesses is making a mysterious noise and now we know what it is.
Scientists have spent the last six years investigating Antarctica's Thwaites glacier and the outlook is not good.
The gargantuan reptile was caught by Megan Sasser and her family along the state's Yazoo River.
Some very strange and potentially very painful sea creatures have been found along the Gulf Coast.
Much has been written about the dodo over the years, but very little of it is based on what these birds were like in life.
Numbering in their hundreds of thousands, the insects filled the air on a beach in Rhode Island recently.
The zoo, situated in England, has hailed the birth of one of the rarest animals on Earth.
A coffee farmer recently recorded video footage of an incredibly rare creature poking its head up out of a hole in Bolivia.
Scientists discovered that this piranha-like fish had been masquerading as another species for years.