The modern day animal kingdom is full of massive and terrifying creatures, from the ferocious great white shark to the vegetarian rhinoceros. Even the largest animals alive today, however, pale in ...

When some of the more entrepreneurial lifeforms started moving from water to land some 390 million years ago, things soon got ...

Beneath the surface of a Colombian coal mine, scientists made a discovery so extraordinary that it rewrote what we know about giant reptiles. In 2009, researchers unearthed fossil remains of an ...

The blue whale is the largest animal known to have ever lived, reaching lengths of nearly 100 feet and weighing more than 300,000 pounds. With its sheer size and strength, it has no natural predators ...

The internal anatomy of a prehistoric creature the size of a poppy seed has been revealed in “astonishing detail”. Researchers used powerful X-rays to scan the 520-million-year-old fossil. The results ...

A detailed study of bones and tendons overturns assumptions about the mobility of Australia’s extinct mega kangaroos.