A true titan of the ocean, the Blue Whale reigns as the largest and most powerful creature on Earth. With its immense size, ...

Foreshadowing the great reflecting telescopes of the last century and a half, Lord Rosse managed in 1845 to erect a mighty ...

Paleontologists in Egypt announced the discovery of Tutcetus rayanensis, an eight-foot-long leviathan that lived 41 million years ago. By Franz Lidz In 1842, a vast, nearly intact skeleton was ...