The blue whale is not only the largest animal today, but is also the largest animal to have ever lived on our planet (Yes, even bigger than dinosaurs). The largest land animal to ever exist on Earth was the prehistoric dinosaur known as Argentinosaurus. With a weight range...
Gigantophis garstiniwas a giant prehistoric snake that may have measured more than 10 meters (33 feet), larger than any living species of snake. Before Titanoboa was discovered in Colombia in 2002, it was regarded as the largest snake ever. Gigantophis lived approximately40 million years agoin ...
is an extinct subspecies of tiger that lived in what is now the Sundaland region of Indonesia during the Pleistocene epoch. Fossils of P. t. soloensis have been found primarily in the village of Ngandong, hence the common name. Only seven fossils are known, making studying the animal diffic...
It also stands to weaken the Endangered Species Act, because if critical habitat is redefined as any place where a species might ever have existed, and where you or I might want it to exist again, then the door is open for many other sense less efforts to bring back l...
as the area includes the world’s largest herd of free-roaming wood bison and bison in general. The park is named after the animal to underline its (main) purpose. The park encompasses around 44,700 square kilometers, making it Canada’s largest national park and the second-largest one in...
These broad similarities point to a cause that transcends regional fishing practices, ecosystems, or animal behaviors, the authors said. Chinook salmon, shorter in length than in earlier years, swim in Oregon's McKenzie River. Credit: Morgan Bond ...