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The short answer is, BLUE WHALE is the HEAVIEST animal to ever live. AMPHICOELIAS fragillimus (sauropod dinosaur) was the LONGEST animal to ever live. SAUROPOSEIDON proteles (sauropod dinosaur) was the TALLEST animal to ever live.
The term "large" could be defined in terms of weight, length, or even height. In addition, when you use the phrase "to ever live on Earth", I think you have to consider at least the low-end estimates provided by paleontologists and researchers who analyzed fossilized remains.
The heaviest blue whale recorded weighed roughly 195 tons. The longest blue whale recorded was 110 feet, but this whale was not weighed. It is likely it weighed close to 200 tons or slightly more. Bruhathkayosaurus matleyi, a prehistoric sauropod (titanosaur), was estimated to be the heaviest dinosaur ever to live, weighing 139-175 tons (scaled back from a previous estimate of 175-220 tons that was declared inaccurate by the original researcher). The blue whale still outweighs it, therefore making the BLUE WHALE is the HEAVIEST animal to have ever lived, which should not be surprising given that it lives in the ocean. There is always the possibility that prehistoric whales or land-dwellers weighed more, but no evidence of that has yet been found.
Amphicoelias fragillimus was also a sauropod dinosaur, a fossil of which was studied in the 1870s. The fossil has since gone missing (not sure what that means). However, studies were done before it was lost, and field notes suggest the animal could grow to between 130-200 feet in length. Even this low-end estimate is longer than that of the longest blue whale we have ever recorded. Therefore, in my view it is safe to assume that AMPHICOELIAS fragillimus was indeed the LONGEST known animal to have ever lived (130-200 ft). If other, longer whales or dinosaurs existed, no evidence of them has been found.
Sauroposeidon proteles, another sauropod dinosaur, stood at an amazing 56 feet (6 stories) with its neck extended, making it the tallest known animal to ever walk the earth. By comparison, the Brachiosaurus stood 30 feet high and the tallest modern giraffe stood 20 feet high. Therefore, SAUROPOSEIDON proteles was the TALLEST known animal to have ever lived. If anything taller existed, we do not know about it.
Again, you can't expect these estimates to be 100% accurate when you are talking about animals that lived hundreds of millions of year ago. Yet these studies involved scaling the bones of better-known species in the sauropod family, assuming their relative proportions were similar. The low-end estimates are probably correct, and at least have not been seriously called into question.
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∙ 13y agoso far the blue whale is the biggest, other big animals are liopleuridon, megalodon, apatosaurus, brachiosaurus and the sperm whale
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What is the largest in weight animal to have ever lived on your earth?
Was and still is the Blue Whale
What is the biggest eater?
Presumably you mean the biggest living animal. That would be the Blue Whale. It grows up to 30 metres (98ft) and weighs up to 170 tonnes. It is the largest animal known to have ever existed, currently and prehistorically. A blue whale can consume 40 million Krill in a day.
What animal has the largest skeleton?
The Sperm Whale.
What weighs more than a blue whale?
Nothing. The blue whale is the largest animal ever to live on earth.
What is the biggest thing that ever lived?
It depends what you mean by largest thing.Some plants can be a single organism and cover acres of ground.Some types of marine life can also be huge in extent, mass or length.The largest mammal that has ever existed is the Blue Whale.
What is the largest animal in the world of any knid?
the largest animal existing on this planet is the blue whale and is possibly the largest animal ever to have existed on the planet.
Large sea animal?
The blue whale is the largest sea animal, and also the largest animal that ever existed.
What animal is the largest ever to have existed on the planet Earth?
Blue whale. The largest organism, by size, is a single fungus in the Pacific Northwest.
The largest mamle in the world?
The largest mammal in the world is the blue whale. They have been known to be over 100 feet long and to weigh as much as 200 tons. They are not only the largest living animals, they are the largest animal that is known to have ever existed.
What is the present size of world's biggest whale?
The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus), at approximately 30 metres (98 ft) in length, is the largest known animal to have ever existed.
Is a pterosaur a reptile?
Yes, pterosaurs were flying reptiles. They existed alongside the dinosaurs during the Mesozoic era. The largest known pterosaur had a 30 foot wingspan, and was the largest known flying animal to have ever existed.
What was the name of the largest shark that ever existed?
megalodon
Which animal is the largest?
The great blue whale is the largest animal on earth. At 30 meters (98 ft) in length and 170 tonnes (190 short tons) or more in weight, it is the largest existing animal and the heaviest that ever existed.
What is the largest mammal the world?
The Blue Whale. Also known to be the largest animal ever.
What was the largest animal ever captured?
The largest animal ever captured and held in captivity is the Killer Whale (Orcinus Orca).
Are gorrilas the largest living mammals?
No. The largest living mammal currently known is the blue whale, which is also believed to be the largest animal of any kind ever to have existed on Earth. It reaches lengths of 100 ft and can weigh 150 tons.
What was the largest empire in Europe during the 1900s?
The British Empire, it was the largest that has ever existed.
