From a huge baby penguin to a pet octopus who laid 50 eggs and a whale that might have been a Russian spy, here is a look at some of the most famous animals of 2024.

However, not all of these are well-known or thoroughly studied. There are even more that, while classified, are animals ...

The Mexican gray wolf, for example, is a well-known animal that is listed as endangered where it is not designated as an experimental nonessential population. The humpback chub, which lives in the ...

The prehistoric creature is thought to have lived around 280-270 million years ago and was likely a "top predator" in its day ...