The longest animal on Earth isn’t what you think. It’s a drifting, gelatinous predator whose reach reshapes how we define ...

Snakes have both fascinated and scared humans for as long as we can remember. Especially frightening are the giants that ...

Tallest giraffe ever recorded was George, a huge Masai male who lived in Chester Zoo in Kenya, who died in 1969. He was 20 ft tall (19ft tall with 1 ft long horns). World’s biggest living giraffe is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. When we think about the scope of our world’s diversity, ...

The mention of giant underwater creatures usually brings to mind mythological monsters. The great kraken, ancient leviathans, and if that fossil of a creature with 45 arms is a real-life Cthulhu. As a ...

Our beloved planet has seen giants that dwarf most animals alive today. These massive creatures lived across different time periods and belonged to all kinds of environments, including deep oceans and ...

This elusive inhabitant of equatorial African rainforests is the biggest of all monkeys and arguably the most beautiful. The ...

Photo-Illustration by Chloe Dowling for TIME (Source Images: Nastasic/Getty Images, imageBROKER/Dieter Mahlke/Getty Images, Yaroslava Alekseeva/Getty Images, Gianluigi Guercia—Getty Images) In 2007, ...

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, ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Over the past year, wildlife videos and photos have been everywhere on social media. Among all the animals people talk about, snakes have become a surprising favourite, especially those with unusually ...