From towering elephants to deep-sea leviathans, the natural world is home to some record-breaking giants. Here's a roundup of ...

The African elephant has the biggest ears of any living animal. These floppy appendages serve to quickly dissipate heat through the ears’ many blood vessels into the air.

Elephant bird eggs in the Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy of National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France (Danny Ye/Shutterstock). Few creatures capture the imagination quite ...

The largest animals to ever walk the Earth would have dwarfed a modern-day elephant. Interestingly, the discovery of titanosaurs got off to something of a false start. The first fossils given this ...

Part of a femur isn’t much to rest a title on, but, if Larramendi is correct, the largest Palaeoloxodon would have been nearly a foot taller and over 5 tons heavier than the biggest known ...