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, ...

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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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists are only aware of around 1.5 million animals of the millions that have existed since the inception of time, long even ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Read on to discover the 12-inch-thick throat muscles and a 90-second gulp that power its baleen-filter feeding. The biggest whale ...

Twice a year, thousands of elk, mule deer and pronghorn migrate between their seasonal ranges in Colorado. They spend their winters grazing at lower elevations and their summers in the mountains. As ...