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Giant kangaroos that lived during the Ice Age may have hopped—despite weighing up to 550 pounds
For many people, thinking of Ice Age animals evokes images of woolly mammoths, saber-toothed tigers and giant sloths. But in ...
Some of the largest creatures that have ever lived on earth thrive by eating tiny prey. Why don’t they eat bigger fish, and ...
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 ...
Giant kangaroos that lived during the Ice Age may not have been as slow and grounded as once believed. A new study finds ...
Long before the rise of the mighty dinosaurs on our Earth, the planet was indeed dominated by the mighty ‘giants,’ but the ...
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Meet the Takin, the Mountain Giant Most People Have Never Heard Of
The amazing thing about the animal kingdom is that there’s always something new to discover. Many animals have been around ...
It is easy to feel sorry for the small bugs that end up as lunch for hunters like the Cape sundew, Venus flytraps, and ...
Back in the late 1800s, groups of whalers, settlers, and pirates completely shifted the balance of the Galapagos Islands by ...
When you think of great monster movies, your mind usually goes straight to the obvious ones. Old classics like Alien, Jaws, and The Thing, or the modern Hollywood blockbusters like A Quiet Place, the ...
Andean condors are the biggest raptors in the world — and are vital to their ecosystem ...
Come along on a guided tour of the strangest animals in Cincinnati's strangest neighborhood, from fungus-eating ants to a ...
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