We’ve all been told that the largest extinction event on Earth was caused by a meteor, but what if that’s not the case? In ...

The largest animal on Earth today is the blue whale which can reach 98 feet long – enormous (and the largest recorded blue ...

A camelop is an extinct mammal of the subfamily of camels that roamed North America over 11,000 years ago. These incredibly large animals reached heights of 7 feet and weighed almost 2,000 pounds.

Nearly 12 million years ago, the largest "terror bird" ever discovered was attacked and killed by a massive caiman, a 3D analysis of its fossilized leg suggests ...

Animals are disappearing at hundreds of times ... they could become the fourth subspecies of tiger to go extinct. The large yellow-footed tortoise, Chelonoidis denticulata (vulnerable), from ...

Elk fell into extinction in the UK over 3,000 years ... trials and similar schemes for white storks and the Large Blue butterfly, which animal might we see reintroduced next?

Read on for our ranking of the scariest extinct creatures we're relieved we never had ... Johnson Mortimer/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 3.0 Quetzalcoatlus, one of the largest known flying animals, lived ...

The large and the small are most at risk of extinction, on land and in water The biggest and the smallest of the world's animals are most at risk of dying out, according to a new analysis.

She is remembered for making a number of important fossil discoveries of extinct animals, including ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs - large reptiles that lived in the sea. But these creatures weren't all ...