When it comes to the kings of the jungle, the tiger and lion stand out as the most iconic big cats in the animal kingdom.

Indochinese tiger (Panthera tigris corbetti). Image via Depositphotos ... via Wikimedia Commons Despite their massive size, elephants are surprisingly graceful swimmers. Equipped with a natural ...

They are the lion, tiger, jaguar, leopard, and snow leopard in the Panthera genus ... a wider range than the other big cats of the Old World and is found in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Russia ...

Strength often correlates with an animal’s size and its potential ... also called the royal Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris). India. Bandhavgarh National Park. Tiger. Image via Depositphotos. “10 ...

Young Siberian tiger, Panthera tigris altaica, walking in a forest stream in a dark ... it has a wider range than the other big cats of the Old World and is found in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Russia, ...

The 10 largest spiders in the world seem straight out of science fiction, with legs from 5.5 inches to over a FOOT wide.

and it’s officially the largest prefecture-level city in the world, covering 450,537 square kilometres. To put that into perspective, Nagqu is almost twice the size of the UK (244,376 square ...

A, the world’s oldest and largest (about the size of Rhode Island), may hit South Georgia Island, home to vulnerable penguins and seabirds.

There are countless megalithic sites around the world, but while Stonehenge may be the most famous, know this: it is not the oldest or biggest. The site of Göbekli Tepe, in Turkey, dates back ...

It is more than twice the size of Greater London. But the world's largest iceberg, known as A23a, is starting to crumble. Satellite images reveal that an enormous chunk has broken off the ...

Shockwaves powerful enough to flatten everything for miles. It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of ...

President Trump’s moves to pause refugee resettlement, freeze foreign aid and suspend funds to promote democracy have added more chaos to one of the world’s most urgent humanitarian crises.