Michael Aranda shares some newly discovered animal oddities this week, including the secret shared by sloths and moths, the ...

Yellowstone is famous for its grizzlies – with miles of forest to roam and plenty to eat, these bears reach some monstrous ...

Some nights, when I should be doing something sensible or useful, I end up looking at pictures of blue whales and feeling very, very tiny. We talk a lot about the megafauna that are gone – mammoths, ...

For years, the biggest flying animal was presented as a settled scientific fact. Closer examination of fossils and biomechanics has revealed gaps in those early conclusions. Questions remain about how ...

Have you ever wondered what the biggest land animal in history looked like, or which creature ruled the oceans as the largest of them all? Prehistoric giants often come to mind, but the story goes ...

Tallest giraffe ever recorded was George, a huge Masai male who lived in Chester Zoo in Kenya, who died in 1969. He was 20 ft tall (19ft tall with 1 ft long horns). World’s biggest living giraffe is ...