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The largest dinosaurs, and the largest animals to ever live on land, were the plant-eating, long-necked Sauropoda. The tallest and heaviest sauropod known from a complete skeleton is a specimen of an immature Giraffatitan discovered in Tanzania between 1907 and 1912, now mounted in the Museum für Naturkunde of Berlin.
The largest of the Old World monkeys is the mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) with large males being up to 50 kg (110 lb), 90 cm (3.0 ft) long and 50 cm (20 in) at the shoulders. [105] The prehistoric baboon Dinopithecus grew even larger than modern mandrills, weighing as much as a grown man.
The heaviest land mammal is the African bush elephant, which has a weight of up to 10.1 t (11.1 short tons).It measures 10–13 ft at the shoulder and consumes around 230 kg (500 lb) of vegetation a day.
The post 50 Animals So Giant It’s Hard To Believe They’re Real (New Pics) first appeared on Bored Panda. ... The previously mentioned antarctic blue whale holds the title of the biggest animal ...
The African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana) is the largest living land animal. A native of various open habitats in sub-Saharan Africa, males weigh about 6.0 tonnes (13,200 lb) on average. [24] The largest elephant ever recorded was shot in Angola in 1974. It was a male measuring 10.67 metres (35.0 ft) from trunk to tail and 4.17 metres (13. ...
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The largest extant rhino species, it has two horns with the front horn growing up to 101 cm (40 in). [17]: 31 It has a visible hump on the back of the neck. Despite their size they can run at speeds of 50 km/h (31 mph). [18] Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis)