When most people think of enormous animals, their mind probably jumps to giraffes or a grizzly bear. But the largest animals on Earth span a wide range of categories. Mammals comprise over 6,000 ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The blue whale holds the title as the largest animal ever known to have lived on Earth. This video explores how big blue whales ...

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, ...

From the mighty orca to the enigmatic Risso’s dolphin, these individuals remind us that the dolphin family is far more ...