The nearly 13-inch crustacean was brought to Germany from Puerto Rico in the 1980s, but its true identity remained a mystery ...

Sperm whales are built to hunt in parts of the ocean humans can barely reach. They descend into the deep in search of sq ...

Madagascar's giant lemurs survived megadroughts and thousands of years of human hunters, yet vanished within centuries of a ...

A giant isopod from Puerto Rico, rediscovered in the depository of the University of Tübingen's Paleontological Collection, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Fifty giant tortoises walked onto Floreana Island in the Galápagos, the first of their kind to set foot there ...

The mention of giant underwater creatures might conjure images of whales or mythical monsters. But the largest creature recorded in history might surprise you.

Scientists found a “giant” creature in a forest of New Caledonia, kept it in a terrarium for decades and discovered a new species. Photo from Joachim Sameit Following lumberjacks into the forest of a ...

An extraordinarily rare giant phantom jellyfish, which can stretch a huge 30 feet in length, has been caught on camera. The photographs of the mysterious deep-sea creature were captured on a ...

Forty million years before the first dinosaurs evolved, a ferocious predator lurked in swampy waters. Its skull alone was over two feet long. It lay in wait, its jaws open wide, preparing to clamp ...

Scientists found a “giant” animal with “distinct” genitalia in Tanzania and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo shows a representative area of the Iringa Region. Photo from Twalib Aladin via ...