Tallest giraffe ever recorded was George, a huge Masai male who lived in Chester Zoo in Kenya, who died in 1969. He was 20 ft tall (19ft tall with 1 ft long horns). World’s biggest living giraffe is ...

Deep inside Ecuador’s Amazon basin, a film crew and a team of biologists set out to capture a television moment and instead stumbled onto a scientific milestone: a colossal anaconda that may be the ...

The colony was located on the Greece-Albania border in Europe Cover Images via AP Images The world's largest spider web has been discovered in an underwater cave on the border of Greece and Albania in ...

Before scientists shed light on what they were, teeth that washed up on ocean shores were often mistaken for dragon teeth. It ...

Researchers have documented what is believed to be the world’s largest spiderweb inside Sulfur Cave on the Albanian-Greek border. The massive web is home to an estimated over 111,000 spiders, all ...

Deep inside a pitch-black chamber on the Albanian–Greek border, scientists have stumbled upon something straight out of a nightmare: the world’s biggest spider web. “This is one of the first examples ...

What is thought to be the world's largest-known spider's web, housing tens of thousands of arachnids, has been discovered in a cave on the Albanian-Greek border. After researchers published their ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. When we think about the scope of our world’s diversity, ...

Arachnophobes look away now. Deep inside a pitch-black cave straddling the Albanian-Greek border, researchers have uncovered what may be the largest spider web ever recorded—teeming with more than 111 ...

The Nile crocodile is one of the most fearsome predators in the world, sitting at the top of the food chain within its habitat. But every so often a specimen pushes the dimensional boundaries of what ...

As the world's largest bear, and largest land carnivore, polar bears are impressive mammals and are adapted to living in the ...