Today, if you look across the land of North America, the biggest animal you are going to see is the bison. When you see it in ...

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, ...

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 ...

Great white sharks inspire more terror in people than almost any other creature on Earth! Everyone knows the famous line ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah's Hogle Zoo announced on Friday the death of Diego, a California sea lion who made history as the biggest animal to get a CT scan at the University of Utah Hospital. Diego had ...

The largest animal on the planet was spotted off the coast of California, boaters said. Getty Images/iStockphoto Boaters off the coast of California got the chance to join the 1% club after spotting ...