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  2. Largest and heaviest animals - Wikipedia

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    The largest species found along the North America coast is the Pacific red sea urchin (Mesocentrotus franciscanus) where the shell can reach 19 cm (7.5 in). [232] If the spines enter into count, the biggest species may be a Diadematidae like Diadema setosum , with a test up to 10 cm (3.9 in) only, but its spines can reach up to 30 cm (12 in) in ...

  3. Blue whale - Wikipedia

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    The blue whale is the largest animal known ever to have existed. [43] [44] [45] Some studies have estimated that certain shastasaurid ichthyosaurs and the ancient whale Perucetus could have rivalled the blue whale in size, with Perucetus also being heavier than the blue whale with a mean weight of 180 t (180 long tons; 200 short tons).

  4. Largest organisms - Wikipedia

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    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. ...

  5. 11-year-old’s beach find was likely largest known marine ...

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    Scientists consider the blue whale, which grows up to 110 feet (33.5 meters) long, to be the largest known animal ever to exist on the planet. But it’s possible that the 202 million-year-old ...

  6. Sea creature so big it is ‘visible from space’ discovered in ...

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    Scientists have discovered one of the largest known sea creatures – a coral the size of two basketball courts – off the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific.. The coral is believed to be ...

  7. Giant squid - Wikipedia

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    The giant squid is widespread, occurring in all of the world's oceans. It is usually found near continental and island slopes from the North Atlantic Ocean, especially Newfoundland, Norway, the northern British Isles, Spain and the oceanic islands of the Azores and Madeira, to the South Atlantic around southern Africa, the North Pacific around Japan, and the southwestern Pacific around New ...

  8. Colossal squid - Wikipedia

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    The beak is considerably smaller than some found in the stomachs of sperm whales, [55] [56] suggesting other colossal squid are much larger than this one. [55] [56] The eye is 27 cm (10 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) wide, with a lens 12 cm (4 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) across. This is the largest eye of any known animal. [30]

  9. The ocean animal has a bright red, “cross-shaped” stomach, researchers said. ... ‘Large’ creature — with 20 arms — found lurking in Antarctic sea. It’s a new species.