Dinosaurs are the biggest creatures to ever walk the Earth, but even among giants, there is one dinosaur that stood taller than all the others.

As the largest terrestrial mammal on Earth, ... The elephant species alive today are two African species and an Asian species: the African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis), ...

From towering elephants to deep-sea leviathans, the natural world is home to some record-breaking giants. Here's a roundup of ...

A camera trap in Niokolo-Koba National Park captured rare video of what might be the last remaining elephant in Senegal.

Even though elephants are the largest living land animal, humans have increasingly determined their future over recent centuries. Human-elephant conflict came to a head in 1919 when the last surviving ...

My story about the elephant follows. It seems that in 1851, a 40-year-old elephant named Columbus was on display in North Adams. A showman, named James Raymond of Carmel, N.Y., owned this enormous ...

Hansford: The biggest I measured for any of the elephant birds was somewhere around 1,900 pounds. Lichtman (tape): My god, I’m having a hard time really even picturing that. Hansford : Yeah.

A study of butchered bones from 125,000 years ago offers what researchers call “the first clear-cut evidence of elephant-hunting in human evolution.” Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser of the ...

Ali, a 34-year-old African elephant who was once on Michael Jackson’s 'Neverland Ranch,' is recovering at the Jacksonville Zoo after undergoing tusk removal surgery. Skip Navigation Share on ...

It was 10 feet tall and weighed more than 1,000 pounds. But that didn’t stop it from going extinct. An intact, fossilized specimen of the world’s largest egg—of any known species ever on ...

The Earth has been home to many amazing creatures, some of which were so huge that they would dwarf the largest animals alive today. From giant dinosaurs to colossal whales, these are eight of the ...