Big animals are exciting. The largest animal on Earth today is the blue whale which can reach 98 feet long – enormous (and the largest recorded blue whale even hit 110 feet)! But some extinct ...

After a controversial project claiming to have resurrected the dire wolf, Colossal Biosciences has now announced plans to ...

The giant moa has been extinct for 900 years, but Maori researchers working Colossal Biosciences and filmmaker Peter Jackson ...

Paul Scofield, a project adviser and senior curator of natural history at the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand, ...

Kristen Miller, lead author of the study and a doctoral student at KU’s Biodiversity Institute, analyzed the Texan fossils to ...

A de-extinction company plans to recreate the giant moa bird, but scientists question the ethics and scientific accuracy of ...

Meganeura. These giant predatory dragonfly-like insects are one of the largest-known flying insect species of all-time (if not the) with a wingspan of up to 2.5 feet, according to Furman ...

What we lose when animals go extinct. Animals are disappearing at hundreds of times the normal rate, primarily because of shrinking habitats. Their biggest threat: humans.

Before then, the last time one of these herbivores — which are the largest terrestrial animal in South America — had last been spotted in Rio de Janeiro state was in Serra dos Órgãos ...