Deep inside Ecuador’s Amazon basin, a film crew and a team of biologists set out to capture a television moment and instead stumbled onto a scientific milestone: a colossal anaconda that may be the ...

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, ...

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 ...

Before scientists shed light on what they were, teeth that washed up on ocean shores were often mistaken for dragon teeth. It ...

The Nile crocodile is one of the most fearsome predators in the world, sitting at the top of the food chain within its habitat. But every so often a specimen pushes the dimensional boundaries of what ...

Louisiana is known for its giant gators, but the Marsh Island giant found in 1890 by Edward McIlhenny near the mouth of Vermilion Bay is the absolute champ of large alligators. The animal’s reported ...

Have you ever wondered what the biggest land animal in history looked like, or which creature ruled the oceans as the largest of them all? Prehistoric giants often come to mind, but the story goes ...

Blue Whales are believed to be the largest animals ever. Now they’re an endangered species. This month, no less than three blue whales have been found dead in the Santa Barbara Channel, and evidence ...

In 2006, a farmer in southern Italy noticed several large bones jutting from the muddy bottom of a lake he used to irrigate his fields. It would take him three years of careful water management before ...