Our beloved planet has seen giants that dwarf most animals alive today. These massive creatures lived across different time periods and belonged to all kinds of environments, including deep oceans and ...

In China’s Sichuan Basin, paleontologists have discovered an immense dinosaur, revealing just how large land animals could ...

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, ...

Big changes are coming to Chicago's Field Museum -- literally. As the iconic museum prepares to celebrate its 125th anniversary, officials announced plans to makeover its famed T. rex, Sue, and to ...

For more than a century, the largest dinosaurs have seemed like a closed club dominated by a few famous sauropods with necks as long as city buses. Now a neglected set of bones is forcing ...

(Raul Martin) Of all the dinosaur superlatives, “biggest dinosaur ever” is one of the most prized. The trouble is that we don’t really know who deserves the title. Sauropods like Apatosaurus (once ...