Of all the animal pairings in the world, some of the most uncanny ones involve birds. What? Those flighty animals the flit about and flee at the slightest sign of trouble?

hile scientists have postulated all kinds of evolutionary reasons for sexual cannibalism, their theories are often confounded by three core conflicts:

Some of these incredible natural phenomena are rare and a few can be terribly dangerous while others ubiquitously visible and beautiful the entire world over.

Strange Animals: Bizarre, Unusual and Weird Animals including the walking fish, giant salamander, star nosed mole and hagfish.

Strange, unusual, weird, bizarre ways that animals move and odd facts about animal locomotion including flight, rolling, walking on water, bipedalism, and more.

Rats are amazing creatures with amazing skills, abilities, intelligence, memory and traits. Learn rat stories, trivia, and unusual facts about these rodents.

How different animals see color and animal vision including rod diversity, color blindness and perspective in dogs, cats, horses, snakes, insects and more.

From toilet trained and seeing-eye to station master and ceiling cats here are some of the strangest celebrity felines to make front pages and prime time around the world.

t seems like yesterday that WebEcoist was launched with a mandate to cover "even more of your favorite travel, art, architecture and oddities, but with a twist:

Tree climbing, fainting and mountain goats as well as some odds and ends thrown in for entertainment - who knew this one type of animal could be so cool?

Extreme altitude, highest places in the world, highest cities and villages on the planet, and most remote high altitude geographic locations on earth.

There are some truly amazing animals who have overcome disabilities to help fellow animals as well as their owners - saving and rescuing against all odds.

The following collection has a mix of the longest, deepest, and widest (in area) canyons and gorges from around the world.

Let's take a look at some of the most interesting facts and mysteries surrounding the Earth.

Here's a look at 5 arctic animals that possess the amazing ability to change their color in the winter for camouflage.