Hundreds of animals, from tiny ants to mighty hippos, are shaping the Earth's surface as powerfully as floods and storms.

Asian elephants are the largest land animals in the world. They can live up to 70 years in captivity and around 60 years in the wild. Social and family-oriented, these elephants face endangerment ...

The African bush elephant is one of the heaviest land animals with adult male weighing up to 11 tonnes, and adult females can weigh up to 5.4 tonnes ...

At 191 years old, he holds the record as the world's oldest known land animal ... only creature with an impressive lifespan. Many animals live far beyond a century, some even appearing to defy ...

Greater monitoring of the risk of diseases spread by insects is needed in environments where animals and people coexist, say researchers after studying the effect of livestock on spiders in the ...

Land animals will get water by drinking it ... Some animals, find shelter within their own shells. And some animals live in shelter underground. These are called Burrows. If animals, including ...

decrease the amount of water required for the animals and the production facilities, and decrease the land necessary for livestock operations.