The largest sloth of all time was the size of an elephant. Known to paleontologists as Eremotherium, the shaggy giant ...

The Georgia Aquarium describes a whale shark’s throat as the size of a quarter, though others say it can be as large as a ...

The huge whale sculpture at 9th and 9th in Salt Lake City has gained a dedicated following.It appeared in 2022 and is hard to miss due to its size and vibrant c ...

The findings from the Late Jurassic period, though fragmentary, suggest the pliosaur was about twice the size of a killer whale — and move lead study author David Martill closer to redemption.

Fossils from Peru suggest a giant whale that lived roughly 39 million years ago may have been at least as massive as the blue whale.

A new study argues that Perucetus, an ancient whale species, was certainly big, but not as big as today’s blue whales.

The submarine-size ocean creatures were not always behemoths. Now, a new study has found that the secret to a whale’s size may be in its genes.

The latest addition is the Marine Organismal Body Size (MOBS) database, an open-access resource that—as its name implies—has ...

As the smallest of the group of baleen whales that includes the blue whale - filter-feeding behemoths of the marine realm - the Antarctic minke whale aptly can be called the littlest giant. It ...

A size that would have made them excellent prey for Livyatan, which almost certainly ate both baleen filter-feeding whales and their own toothed-whale relatives.