In this paper, we construct a family of elliptic curves with rank ≥ 5. To do this, we use the Heron formula for a triple (A 2 , B 2 , C 2 ) which are not necessarily the three sides of a triangle. It turns out that as parameters of a family of elliptic curves, these three positive integers A, B, and C, along with the extra parameter D satisfy the quartic Diophantine equationKeywords Diophantine equation · elliptic curve · Heron formula 1 IntroductionAs is well-known, the affine part of an elliptic curve E over a field K can be explicitly expressed by the generalized Weierstrass equation of the form E : y 2 + a 1 xy + a 3 y = x 3 + a 2 x 2 + a 4 x + a 6 ,where a 1 , a 2 , a 3 , a 4 , a 6 ∈ K. In this paper we are interested in the case of K = Q. By the Mordell-Weil theorem [23], every elliptic curve over Q has a commutative group E(Q) which is finitely generated, i.e., E(Q) ∼ = Z r × E(Q) tors , where r is a nonnegative integer called the rank of E(Q) and E(Q) tors is the subgroup of elements of finite order called the torsion subgroup of E(Q).