Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...

What is the largest size an animal can be? Mike Follows Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, UK. It is usually claimed that the blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever lived on Earth.

Scientists have sequenced the largest known animal genome — and it's 30 times bigger than the human genome. The genome belongs to the South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa), a primeval ...

after an endangered blue whale, the largest animal on the planet that can grow to 110ft and weigh 330,000 pounds, came right up to their boat monday morning, about ten miles off the coast of ...

Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world's largest animal, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300. The most ...