From mammoth African elephants to giant whales, let's take a look at the 8 largest mammals that inhabit our planet.

Many grow larger than this - with most of those measured coming in at around 12 metres. However, they can grow even longer. One of the biggest whale sharks ever reported was an impressive ...

As a result, modern whales are the largest they’ve ever been in history. Take the biggest of the bunch the blue whale. It weighs more than a Boeing 757. Has a belly button the size of a plate.

The modern blue whale has long been considered the largest and heaviest animal ever, beating out all the giant dinosaurs of the distant past. But Perucetus colossus – the colossal whale from ...

As one of the largest predators to have ever lived, megalodon captures people's imagination - and for good reason ... It may have been comparable in length to today's biggest whale sharks, the largest ...

For reference, the largest blue whale ever discovered tips the scale at around 175 tons. This would have made Perucetus colossus the heaviest animal known to science. Moreover, since the ancient ...

The huge, 17-metre-long whale, which was believed to have ... the Perucetus as being as heavy as or heavier than the biggest blue whales ever known – even though it’s considerably shorter ...

The blue whale is the largest animal ever known to have lived on Earth. Blue whales are largest of all baleen whales and are found worldwide. They have a long slender body with a proportionally ...

In rare video footage, a male whale shark has been spotted biting at his female partner during courtship. Before now, we knew very little about the secret sex lives of the world's largest fish ...