These beasts not only accompany you on your questing, they actively inform how your player develops.

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Some of these beasts pay out more cash than they are earning from pumping oil and gas.

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Max knew his animal kingdom, but he had no name for these beasts.

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If you do suddenly find yourself in close quarters with one of these beasts, your best bet is to get out of the water, swimming away with smooth, even strokes that won't attract its attention.

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Only 20 weeks old, these sister beasts warrant tight security because their milk is highly prized by the U.S. military.

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Thanks to ecotourism, 700 of these giant beasts are alive today, wedged into small parks surrounded by subsistence farms in one of the most populated parts of Africa.

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For these poor dumb beasts.

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