The largest sloth of all time was the size of an elephant. Known to paleontologists as Eremotherium, the shaggy giant shuffled across the woodlands of the ancient Americas between 60,000 and five ...

Previous research indicated that kangaroos weighing more than about 350 pounds would rupture their ankle tendons if they tried to hop. The largest of the Ice Age kangaroos, Procoptodon goliah, which ...

New Zealand has taken great strides to protect the increasingly threatened Giant Wētā, one of the heaviest insects on Earth.

Turtles today are often slow-moving, modestly sized creatures, but their ancient relatives were quite different. Long before ...

A close-up view of the Malaysian giant turtle, or Orlitia borneensis, seen on Belitung Island. Photo from Hasan, Rahmawati, Guntoro, South, Valen, Tamam, Hardian, Andriyono, Nurjirana and Kamarudin ...

A visitor expects to encounter many native and exotic plants at the Memphis Botanic Garden, which offers 96 acres of trails, gardens and woodland as a tranquil alternative to the scurry and hurry of ...

Architeuthis dux, better known as the giant squid, is likely the inspiration for the legendary kraken. The Granger Collection, New York There are few monsters left in the world. As our species has ...

Scientists found a “giant” creature with a “stout” body lurking near a stream in Madagascar and discovered a new species, a study said . Screengrab from Domaine de la Cascade Plantation Lansargues’s ...

Scientists on an Indonesia island found a “giant” creature caught in a trap, the area’s first sighting of an endangered species, photos show. Photo from Hasan, Rahmawati, Guntoro, South, Valen, Tamam, ...