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In a remote rainforest in Australia, home to deadly snakes, spiders and creepy-crawlies, scientists have discovered a new ...

The blue whale, considered the largest animal ever on the planet, can reach about 100 feet (30 meters) long. Marine reptiles ruled the world’s oceans when dinosaurs dominated the land.

Scientists have discovered what they say could be the heaviest animal that ever lived on Earth: a gigantic ancient whale that may have been two to three times as heavy as the modern blue whale. The ...

Biggest ever found The spider, called a Sydney funnel-web spider, was found on the central coast about 80 km from Sydney, Australia. It was named Hercules.

A fossil jawbone found by a British girl and her father on a beach in Somerset, England belongs to a gigantic marine reptile from 202 million years ago that appears to have been among the largest ...

Researchers have discovered a giant stick insect living at high altitude in tropical North Queensland. Acrophylla alta is ...