A new study shows how the extinction of giant animals 10,000 years ago reshaped food webs, with lasting impacts on ecosystems ...

Mother Nature doesn't always play by the rules... Sometimes she flips the script, hits Caps Lock and produces something so unusually large that it looks like it could be cast in a sci-fi movie. We're ...

Size shapes the way animals move, hunt, and survive. For example, in the ocean, ginormous creatures rely on their massive bodies to travel long distances or ambush prey. On land, there are large ...

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As I stepped into Kasmin Gallery's Les Lalanne: Zoophites I felt like I was Alice tumbling into Wonderland. The room was filled with oversized animals, each adorned with peculiar features and foliage ...

Ancient sloths lived in trees, on mountains, in deserts, in boreal forests and on open savannas. Some grew as large as elephants. Illustration by Diego Barletta The largest sloth of all time was the ...

From an evolutionary perspective, is bigger always better? The journey the thunder beasts took to reach such mega proportions from such humble beginnings forces us to ask an important question, one ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! The Philadelphia Zoo has sprouted five massive plant displays of giant animals and ...