Learn more about the largest animal in the world below, along with its scrawny counterpart — the smallest animal in the world. According to the World Wildlife Foundation, the largest animal in ...

The wildlife crossing will allow animals to cross over one of the busiest roadways in the world that sees around 300,000 ...

The largest blue whale weighed an incredible 190 tonnes. On average, however, they’ll weigh as much as 135 tonnes and as “little” as 72 tonnes. By contrast, the African elephant – the world’s heaviest ...

Have you ever thought about which animals are the biggest in the world? From the magnificent blue whale to the majestic African elephant, these creatures aren’t just massive- - they have ...

Scientists have sequenced the largest genome of all animals, the lungfish genome. Their data help to explain how the fish-ancestors of today's land vertebrates were able to conquer land.

The South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa) has the largest known genome of the animal kingdom at 91 billion base pairs of DNA. Katherine Seghers, Louisiana State University Scientists have ...

An international team of researchers led by Konstanz evolutionary biologist Axel Meyer and Würzburg biochemist Manfred Schartl has sequenced the largest genome of all animals, the lungfish genome.