We might fancy ourselves the smartest apes to ever live, but we are certainly not the largest. That honorific goes to the Gigantopithecus blacki, a creature that likely stood nearly 10-feet-tall and ...

It was more like a dinosaur that lived like a giant river monster. This animal is still swimming around today. Blue whales are the biggest animals ever, not just now—ever. Their hearts are the ...

Scientists have celebrated a surprising discovery about pterosaurs - the largest flying animals to have ever lived. The ancient reptiles were once tiny tree-climbers but, over time, evolved to ...

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever existed. Whales can be found in every ocean ...

The biggest dire wolf would have paled in comparison to Epicyon haydeni, the largest canine to ever walk the Earth!

Our dinosaur expert Professor Paul Barrett says, 'Although the blue whale is famous for being the biggest animal that has ever lived, it cheats - it lives in water, which helps to support its weight.' ...

The biggest blue whale ever recorded weighed 190 tonnes ... The researchers were confident that the animal lived in shallow waters in coastal environments, due to the strange heaviness of its ...

Blue whales are not only the largest animal on earth today but the largest known animal ever to have lived on earth. The ...

New research suggests that the prehistoric megalodon, the biggest shark known to have existed ... no complete skeletons of the shark have ever been found - and estimating the length of the ...

Whales are the largest animals to ever exist on this Earth, outweighing even the dinosaurs. These titans roam the oceans in search of food, but that wasn't always the case. Millions of years ago ...

Whales are weird. The Cetacea clade contains the largest animal to ever live—the blue whale—as well as other gigantic baleen whales and a diverse array of toothed whales, including dolphins, porpoises ...