Every fall, pumpkin growers haul their record-breaking giants onto scales, with some pumpkins weighing more than 2,700 pounds (1,225 kilograms). Yet the world's largest apple barely reaches 4 pounds ...

Giant pumpkins, which can pack on 50 pounds a day, are a different species than the ones carved for Halloween. And competitive growers -- who speculate on seed lineages like stock brokers, and ...

Cochrane Polar Bear Habitat is the world’s only sanctuary devoted solely to polar bears, housing Ganuk and Henry. Henry is the first Australia-born polar bear in nearly 30 years and now lives at ...

A colossal pumpkin, weighing nearly as much as a small car, has secured third place in a prestigious annual weigh-off, thanks to the meticulous care of its owner, Tony Scott. For months, Mr Scott, a ...

WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. (AP) -- The pumpkin in Tony Scott's backyard weighs almost as much as a small car. He's been tending to it for months, feeding it fertilizer and covering it with a blanket at ...

Giant pumpkins can top the scales at more than 2,000 pounds – and caring for these behemoths is often a full-time job. But for some growers in the central U.S., the dream of raising a world ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — Albert Rodebaugh of Craigsville, West Virginia, set a new record at the North Carolina State Fair by winning the annual giant pumpkin competition with a 2,244.5-pound pumpkin.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – It was gourds aplenty as boaters dressed as Captain America, Guy Fieri, a hot dog and more made a big splash in Oregon’s Tualatin’s Lake of the Commons on Sunday afternoon.