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 ...

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 “mighty” new prehistoric whale species was about 40 feet long based on the fossilized bones. Tanaka, et al (2025) Palaeontologia Electronica The summaries below were drafted with the help of AI ...

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 ...

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