CHICAGO­ —Webbed underarms can turn a sluggish robotic octopus into a speed demon. A squishy membrane connecting the machine’s eight arms helps the bot scoot through water nearly twice as fast as ...

Webbed feet enable these animals to swim, walk, and climb more efficiently. For example, webbed feet help quickly propel an animal through water to evade predators, or aid in hunting food, giving ...

If you thought winter was cold where you live, just imagine how a polar bear must feel! These amazing animals live on coastal ice fields and floating ice in the Arctic Ocean, where they hunt for seals ...

But, like roughly one in every 2500 people - including this author, and celebrities like Conan O’Brien, Ashton Kutcher and Dan Aykroyd - some of Mailata’s lower digits are fused together with extra ...

The sea cucumber commonly nicknamed the "headless chicken monster" - unique for its webbed swimming fin structures - has been captured swimming at the Loudoun Seamount, in the Pacific Ocean. Recorded ...