At the turn of the century, the infamous “Insular Cases” established a legal colonial framework by which the United States used racist logic to justify colonial governance over its so-called ...

The species’ large size is likely due to “ insular gigantism,” a biological phenomenon in which animals on islands evolve to become larger than those on the mainland, Vejmělka tells Live ...

Vejmělka explained that the species’ size might be an example of insular gigantism, an evolutionary process where island-dwelling animals evolve larger body sizes than their mainland relatives.

The world's second-biggest rat species — a gargantuan woolly beast — was caught on camera in the mountains of New Guinea.

Gigantism is a condition that causes children and adolescents to be atypically tall. Learn more here.

The main difference between gigantism and acromegaly is when it occurs. Gigantism occurs in children before puberty. Acromegaly happens after puberty during adulthood.

Nature has a few rules to help explain the extreme shapes and sizes we see in the animal kingdom.

Insular Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of Insular Life (InLife), was awarded the Asia Responsible Enterprise Award for Social Empowerment. The Insular Foundation’s fitness ...

THE Insular Life Assurance Co. Ltd. (Insular Life) it paid lesser gross benefits and claims last year as it observed a “substantially” lower death and health claims experience from its clients ...

To quantify how evolution towards dwarfism and gigantism may have affected the risk and rate of extinction (before and after human arrival), the researchers used data on fossil and living island ...