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Unlike most animals that grew to massive sizes millions of years ago, the anaconda has been able to maintain its hugeness the entire time

Back in the Middle to Upper Miocene eras, which took place around 12 million years ago, the world was quite a bit warmer, which meant that plants and animals could grow a lot larger. This explains why ...
Forbes

A Biologist Ranks The 5 Biggest Animals To Have Ever Roamed The Earth (Hint: One Exists To This Day, The Rest Are Extinct)

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. When we think about the scope of our world’s diversity, ...
Phys.org

New study clarifies relationships between temperature and animals' sizes

New clues about the subtle but previously poorly understood evolutionary dance happening between temperatures and changes in the size of animal body parts have been revealed in a study led by ...
Phys.org

Researcher discovers how to predict movement for animals of all shapes, sizes and speeds

Nicholas Szczecinski, an assistant professor at the WVU Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, and doctoral student Clarus Goldsmith work on a robot. Szczecinski developed a ...
Quanta Magazine

Shark Data Suggests Animals Scale Like Geometric Objects

It’s a universal fact that as any 3D object, from a Platonic sphere to a cell to an elephant, grows outward in all directions, its total surface area will increase more slowly than the space it ...
EurekAlert!

WVU researcher discovers how to predict movement for animals of all shapes, sizes and speeds

Nicholas Szczecinski, an assistant professor at the WVU Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, and doctoral student Clarus Goldsmith work on a robot. Szczecinski developed a ...