But they aren’t the most abundant land animals. There are a lot of ways to break this down, but if you go by either individual animals or biomass, which is basically weight, the honor almost certainly ...

The pronghorns were killed by vehicles, likely large trucks, as they sought shelter from snow in fields on rural roads and ...

“Instead, mollusc or mollusc-like animals might be the pioneers of these early excursions onto land which date back to the ...

The common hippopotamus, Hippopotamus amphibius, is one of the largest land animals on Earth. Adult hippos can weigh between 1.5 to 3 tons (that's like a small car!), and they can grow as long as 16 ...

Speed defines a diverse array of animals across land, air, and sea. The cheetah leads land animals reaching 70 mph, while the peregrine falcon plunges at an astounding 200 mph in the air.

Now, a team of roboticists, palaeontologists and biologists is using robots to study how the ancestors of modern land animals transitioned from swimming to walking, about 390 million years ago.

Scientists have long been fascinated by how ancient fish like Tiktaalik evolved the structures needed to walk on land.

The Republican congresswoman lamented that millions of acres of Colorado land were off-limits to potential oil drilling.