Jonathan, a giant tortoise living on the island of St Helena, has once again made history. Guinness World Records (GWR) has named him an official ICON and confirmed that he remains the world’s oldest ...

7.22 meters: how do you measure a python that will not stay still? A reticulated python is not a metal rod. Its body is made up of hundreds of vertebrae connected by compressible cartilage discs. As a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Guinness World Records Jonathan the tortoise has already lived through nearly two centuries of world history — and ...

"Chickens have an average life expectancy of five to eight years, so Peanut is somewhat of a Methuselah of the aviary world.

Romeo, who stands at 6ft 4.5in, unseated Tommy of Cheshire, Massachusetts, to claim the title The American steer Romeo was just 10 days old when the owners of an animal sanctuary in Oregon saved him ...

Shockwaves echoed across the scientific community, this week, when what was believed to be the world's oldest fossil of an octopus, was actually another animal entirely. The fossil was even featured ...

March 12 (UPI) --A 4-year-old porcine social media star living in California earned the Guinness World Records title for the most followers on Instagram for a pig: 1.1 million. The record-keeping ...