Some of the largest animals on Earth are also the hardest to find. This video focuses on three giant species that avoid human ...

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, ...

This one-ton turtle once ruled South America’s rivers — until a changing planet proved too much for even the largest ...

Monotremes are unique mammals that lay eggs, but their limited geographic ranges make them vulnerable. We explain why.

S is for Stern. That’s the word that kept coming to mind as I watched the gorgeous film adaptation of Helen Macdonald’s bestselling memoir H Is for Hawk, directed by Philippa Lowthorpe, written by ...

Paraceratherium was a hornless rhino relative that dwarfed every land mammal alive today. Standing nearly five meters tall at the shoulder and weighing up to 20 tons, it may have been the largest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Read on to discover the 12-inch-thick throat muscles and a 90-second gulp that power its baleen-filter feeding. The biggest whale ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

The whale shark always presents a subtle irony. It's the largest fish in the world, reaching tens of meters in length, yet ...

The Indomitable Lions, Bafana Bafana and the Super Eagles have all been competing at the 35th edition of the Africa Cup of ...

After being lured to the Gulf of Maine’s warming waters to feed, young sea turtles are trapped and cold-stunned as ...