A hoary bat named Hoary Potter has won this year’s Bat Beauty Contest put on by the Bureau of Land Management. Learn more here.

Wildlife photographer Chris McQuarrie was stunned to come across an entire moose family taking a dip in a serene lake. Watch the moment here.

A rare visitor Voyageurs National Park passed by a trail cam earlier this week. The “big kitty”—a cougar—is a rare sight in Minnesota.

A deer in Michigan has a plastic pumpkin stuck on its face. Here’s what wildlife officials say you should and shouldn’t do in this situation.

A video shows a polar bear living its best life, chillin’ out against a rock without a care in the world. Watch it here.

We bet you’ve never seen an animal quite like this whitetail deer, which has a very heavy set of antlers that resemble a crystal chandelier.

When a picturesque moose stepped out of a beautiful forest laced with autumn colors, Jared VanderMeer was there to document the moment.

A mesmerizing photo shows a standoff between a fish eagle and a jackal in Botswana, Africa. Learn more about the dramatic moment here.

A night-vision trail camera captured a photo of a “winged and horned” mythical-looking creature at the Bristol Zoo. Everyone’s baffled.

Using trail cams, researchers set out to catalog what lives in the Xuan Lien Nature Reserve, and they found some of Vietnam’s rarest animals.