It’s hard to picture a creature so immense that a person could stand inside one of its arteries, yet that’s the reality of the blue whale—the largest animal ever to live on Earth. A detail like that ...

Standing on the southern tip of the island at Dondra Head, where the Indian Ocean stretches endlessly in every direction, it is difficult to imagine that beneath those restless blue waves lies one of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. When we think about the scope of our world’s diversity, ...