In Earth's largest extinction, land animal die-offs began long before marine extinction. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2020 / 03 / 200327161718.htm ...

A giant monster that could be the largest animal that ever lived, has been unearthed high up in the Alps. Scientists are saying that the 205 million year old ichthyosaur was larger than a blue whale.

If there's an overall lesson to be gleaned from the prehistoric bestiaries of our childhood libraries, it's this: If you want to go extreme, go prehistoric. If you're curious about, say, the ...

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

When we say these shoals are huge, we really do mean huge – they can stretch more than 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) long, 1.5 kilometers (0.9 miles) wide, and 30 meters (98 feet) deep. Combined ...

The blue whale has long been considered the largest animal to have ever existed, even dwarfing the biggest known dinosaurs. But now a new species threatens to steal the crown, and upends what we ...

Blue whales are still historically large animals: Some can grow to more than 100 feet. Perucetus colossus was “possibly the heaviest animal ever,” said study co-author Alberto Collareta, a ...

Currently, it is the largest marine reptile known to scientists. Read more about this specimen in the study published in the journal PLOS One . Have another ancient animal or scientific revelation ...

The Permian period, which ended in the largest mass extinction the Earth has ever known, began about 299 million years ago. The emerging supercontinent of Pangaea presented severe extremes of ...