Fin whales are the second-largest animals in the world, capable of reaching around 80 ... With fewer than 2,500 individuals considered to be alive, sperm whales’ greatest threats are ship strikes, ...

By contrast, dinosaurs always held up their own weight.' African savanna elephants, Loxodonta africana, are the largest land animals alive today. Most weigh five to seven tonnes. The biggest ...

The world's largest living organism is slowing being eaten alive after living on Earth for ... a much smaller but very real threat: hungry animals. Paleoecologist Dr Richard Elton Walton wrote ...