The rare creature, called Haliphron atlanticus, was seen by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute's biodiversity and ...

Size shapes the way animals move, hunt, and survive. For example, in the ocean, ginormous creatures rely on their massive ...

Deep-sea creatures exhibit gigantism, with football-sized eyes and van-sized sponges thriving in crushing darkness. These ...

Giant tortoises are some of the long-lived species on the planet. Here’s what biologists now understand about one of nature’s ...

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 ...

Nature packs surprises in every corner, be it in the form of fierce predators or gentle creatures that share our world ...

Scuttling under the pines at a plantation in the highlands of Tanzania, a long critter took a step. Then it took another and another. The ringed creature may seem small, but it is part of a family of ...

Explore the remarkable similarities and differences between sperm whales and giant squid, from size and behavior to diet and ...

A close-up view of the Malaysian giant turtle, or Orlitia borneensis, seen on Belitung Island. Photo from Hasan, Rahmawati, Guntoro, South, Valen, Tamam, Hardian, Andriyono, Nurjirana and Kamarudin ...

In the bushland of Tanzania, some “giant” creatures went about their day — or tried to. Something about the many-legged animals caught the attention of nearby scientists. They captured the millipedes, ...