There is no scientific evidence giants have ever existed, though archaeological and modern records show humans with a rare ...

Was the biggest bug to ever live a predator? Scientists claim that the huge primitive millipede was a plant eater.

During the Carboniferous Period, Earth's atmospheric oxygen levels surged, helping some plants and animals grow to gigantic ...

Why do some deep-sea creatures grow to such massive sizes? What drives this phenomenon known as deep-sea gigantism? How can understanding what’s going on at the bottom of the sea impact life on Earth?

He had an undiagnosed benign tumour of his pituitary gland, an adenoma, which caused acromegaly and gigantism. Science Photo Library John Hunter, the Scottish surgeon and anatomist who put Charles ...

Colleen, from Virginia in the United States, suffers from a rare genetic condition called acromegaly or gigantism. The gene caused Charles Byrne, born in 1761 near Cookstown and known as the ...