If there's an overall lesson to be gleaned from the prehistoric bestiaries of our childhood libraries, it's this: If you want to go extreme, go prehistoric. If you're curious about, say, the ...

The African Elephant is the largest land animal on Earth with adult males attaining heights of 11.5 feet (3.5 m) and weighing more than 13,000 pounds (5,000 kg). Their tusks can grow to 8 feet (2. ...

Paleontologists in Patagonia May have discovered the largest animal to ever walk on land, according to an early report published this week. Alex Galbraith January 20, 2021 ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- "This dinosaur here is Apatasaurus." Paleontologist Matthew Lamanna points out a mounted dinosaur skeleton in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. "For a long time, this ...

New Dino May Be Largest Land Animal Ever. An international team of paleontologists have just uncovered the coolest dinosaur of this decade, and the biggest fossil ever of a single organism.

Q. My brother (a basketball player) says giraffes are the biggest land animals because they are the tallest. How do scientists determine what the biggest animals are?

If there's an overall lesson to be gleaned from the prehistoric bestiaries of our childhood libraries, it's this: If you want to go extreme, go prehistoric. If you're curious about, say, the largest ...

In the weight category, African elephants qualify as the largest land animals. Records have been reported of elephants weighing more than 10 tons. By comparison the largest known hippopotamus ...