Mother Nature doesn't always play by the rules... Sometimes she flips the script, hits Caps Lock and produces something so unusually large that it looks like it could be cast in a sci-fi movie. We're ...

Size shapes the way animals move, hunt, and survive. For example, in the ocean, ginormous creatures rely on their massive bodies to travel long distances or ambush prey. On land, there are large ...

The largest sloth of all time was the size of an elephant. Known to paleontologists as Eremotherium, the shaggy giant shuffled across the woodlands of the ancient Americas between 60,000 and five ...

From an evolutionary perspective, is bigger always better? The journey the thunder beasts took to reach such mega proportions from such humble beginnings forces us to ask an important question, one ...

There's a large eight foot long Anteater coming to the Buffalo Zoo, and it's getting people excited about saving the species.

Many giant animals roamed the Earth after non-avian dinosaurs went extinct. Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz / Dmitry Bogdanov via Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 3.0 / Dmitry Bogdanov via Wikipedia under CC ...

Giant versions of animals and the science behind them. Leaked emails about removal of Black WW2 soldier memorials spark ...

Colossal Biosciences has announced a partnership to resurrect giant flightless birds called moa. But the company's recent dire wolf project was controversial, and moa are an even more ambitious target ...

Nature packs surprises in every corner, be it in the form of fierce predators or gentle creatures that share our world without a snap. Among these creatures, there are some that earn trust and ...

The Ice Age was a world locked in endless winter, where massive glaciers crept across continents and woolly mammoths roamed icy tundras. It was not just a single event, but a series of cold snaps ...

Ancient sloths lived in trees, on mountains, in deserts, in boreal forests and on open savannas. Some grew as large as elephants. Illustration by Diego Barletta The largest sloth of all time was the ...