Some of the best animals in the world are the unverified ones. They might be imaginary. Or they might be real. Either way, they are awesome. Whatever they are, the experts who study them call them ...

From dragons to unicorns, a roundup of unusual animals representing nations. Flickr/Eric Lafforgue. Sept. 7, 2013— -- intro: As the national animal of the United States, the majestic bald eagle ...

If wildlife goes extinct, perhaps we can preserve its essence in a menagerie of disturbing new creatures. With species now disappearing 1,000 times faster than the natural rate, it’s not hard to ...

Animals were everywhere at the Kino Gem & Mineral Show, just not necessarily the ones that are alive today. We took photos of some of the animals we found in ...

An earlier version of this story appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. A Vox reader asks, “Why do children often have imaginary friends?” ...

The men’s and women’s NCAA basketball championships kick off this week, but over at Harvard, another kind of single-elimination tournament is already underway — and in this one, the winners don’t ...

If you’ve ever stopped halfway through a carton of animal crackers to bemoan the fate of the illustrated animals on the box, good news. Those cartoon animals are now 100% cage-free. That’s right: Your ...

"In The Transplant Imaginary, author Lesley Sharp explores the extraordinarily surgically successful realm of organ transplantation, which is plagued worldwide by the scarcity of donated human parts, ...

Studies indicate that up to 60 percent of children will have an imaginary companion at some point between ages 3 and 8. These friends can be invisible beings or personalities embodied in objects like ...