Today, if you look across the land of North America, the biggest animal you are going to see is the bison. When you see it in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. When we think about the scope of our world’s diversity, ...

We often hear about the biggest animals that would easily tower over humans twice, thrice, and some even ten times. But how big, exactly, are they? Let’s take the blue whale, which is known as one of ...

Tallest giraffe ever recorded was George, a huge Masai male who lived in Chester Zoo in Kenya, who died in 1969. He was 20 ft tall (19ft tall with 1 ft long horns). World’s biggest living giraffe is ...

Discover five wild animals with legendary appetites, from ocean giants to forest giants, and learn how much they really eat ...

Some nights, when I should be doing something sensible or useful, I end up looking at pictures of blue whales and feeling very, very tiny. We talk a lot about the megafauna that are gone – mammoths, ...