The animal kingdom boasts wild diversity in size, shape, and features of animals, but some are defined by their weight. Fat's not necessarily a bad thing when it comes to these massive creatures.

Chinese Zoo Under Fire After Viral Photos Show Fat Animals Lounging Around. Also in the same zoo is a sun bear, who has been photographed as well. Much like the leopard, the sun bear is unusually fat.

We don’t just think fat animals are cute — even if they are — but part of the attraction to stories about them is that we are scandalized by the humans who “allowed” them to get that way.

For comparison, the richest ice cream clocks in at only 16% fat. And after just three to five days guzzling the stuff, seal pups double their body weight. But seals aren't the only animals with ...

Neanderthals living 125,000 years ago in what is now modern-day Germany may have extracted and eaten fat from animal bones through an organized food preparation process that scientists describe ...

It is a matter of common knowledge that many hibernating animals, in cold climates, survive their long and enforced fast by accumulating fat within the body, or immediately under the skin. It is ...