Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The blue whale holds the title as the largest animal ever known to have lived on Earth. This video explores how big blue whales ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nothing in Earth’s history compares to the blue whale. This ocean giant outweighs dinosaurs and stretches longer than most buses.

If you want to see where the real power on this planet resides, you have to look beneath the waves. The ocean is home to ...

When most people think of enormous animals, their mind probably jumps to giraffes or a grizzly bear. But the largest animals on Earth span a wide range of categories. Mammals comprise over 6,000 ...

Some nights, when I should be doing something sensible or useful, I end up looking at pictures of blue whales and feeling very, very tiny. We talk a lot about the megafauna that are gone – mammoths, ...

Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...

Scorpions are some of the most recognizable (and creepy looking) creatures on Earth. With their large pincers, armored bodies ...