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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Filmmaker Peter Jackson's fascination with a large extinct New Zealand bird has led to an unusual partnership with a biotech ...

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.

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 ...

Several methods exist for estimating body mass in extinct animals. The most popular is based on limb bone dimensions. Think of sauropod limb bones as columns supporting a building.

The most massive animal to have ever lived is still swimming around today. The blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus , regularly tips the scales at over 100 tonnes. Some estimates have pegged ...