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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. It is 12–13.27 m (39.4 ...
The hafgufa (described as the largest of the sea monsters, inhabiting the Greenland Sea) from the King's Mirror [72] [73] [n] continues to be identified with the kraken in some scholarly writings, [75] [20] and if this equivalence were allowed, the kraken-hafgufa's range would extend, at least legendarily, to waters approaching Helluland ...
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).
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 ...
The blue whale, considered the largest animal ever on the planet, can reach about 100 feet (30 meters) long. Marine reptiles ruled the world's oceans when dinosaurs dominated the land.
The largest living fungus may be a honey fungus [25] of the species Armillaria ostoyae. [26] A mushroom of this type in the Malheur National Forest in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon, U.S. was found to be the largest fungal colony in the world, spanning 8.9 km 2 (2,200 acres) of area. [25] [27] This organism is estimated to be 2,400 years old.
The largest of these creatures ever found was measured 59 feet long and weighed nearly an entire ton. 5. Looks can be deceiving -- especially underwater. ... Check out some more deep sea creatures ...
Largest specimen of Leedsichthys compared to other Pachycormid fish. Leedsichthys is the largest known member of the Osteichthyes or bony fishes. [20] The largest extant non-tetrapodomorph bony fish is the ocean sunfish, Mola mola, being with a weight of up to two tonnes an order of magnitude smaller than Leedsichthys.