Today there's a new addition to the "real life is stranger than fiction" category. Check out the fish Macropinna microstoma. It has tubular eyes and a see-through head. These photos blew me away today...

According to veteran swimmer Mark Spitz, who won a record 7 gold medals at the 1972 Munich Olympics, only 10 swimmers in the world can swim at around 6 miles per hour. Michael Phelps, who is on his way to breaking Spitz's gold medal streak...

Thanks to all of you who have followed Born Animal these past few years. Please note that the blog is moving to: http://news.discovery.com/animals/ I invite you to join me there for the latest Discovery News about animals and the beast in all of us.

Today I'm happy to share with you photographs of animals at Imire Safari Ranch, a 10,000 acre conservancy west of Harare in Zimbabwe, Africa. Visitors to the ranch live in close, yet safe, contact with black rhinos, lions, buffaloes and many other...

Swine flu has been confirmed in a pet cat. This news just in from the Iowa Department of Public Health (thank you to Susan McCullough for sharing): The Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) and the Iowa Department of Agriculture and...

It pays to dig deeply into museum collections, as this release from Ludwig-Maximilians University proves: A long forgotten fossil skull in the collections of the Natural History Museum in London has now provided crucial clues to the early stages...

Mighty termites could help to solve our energy needs, according to the following news from the University of Florida: Termite damage costs the U.S. more than $1 billion each year, but that same destructive power might help solve one of the...