What is the largest animal in the world?

Answer 1

The Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is the largest species of animal that has ever existed at up to 140 tons.

The African Bush Elephant (Loxodonta africana) is the largest extant species of land animal at up to 10 tons, although many extinct species of dinosaurs were far larger. Argentinosaurus (Argentinosaurus huinculensis) may have been the largest species of dinosaur at up to 100 tons.

The Kori Bustard (Ardeotis kori) is the heaviest extant species of bird capable of flight at up to 19 kg. The Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus), though lighter at up to 12 kg, can fly for hours on end. The extinct flying pterosaur species Quetzalcoatlus (Quetzalcoatlus northropi) may have weighed up to 50 kg.

Answer 2

Largest Animal (sea)

The Blue Whale is the world largest animal. They're also the world's loudest animal. Blue whales' low-frequency pulses are as loud as 188 decibels—louder than a jet engine—and can be detected more than 500 miles away. The heaviest blue whale ever weighed was more than 190 tons, and the longest ever measured was more than 108 feet long.

Largest Animal (land)
African elephants are the heaviest and second tallest land animals. Large bulls (males) weigh more than 13,000 pounds and are 12 feet tall all the shoulder. Giraffes, which can grow to a height of 18 feet, are the tallest land animals. Large males weigh more than 4,000 pounds.

Answer 3

O.K., the blue whale is the world's largest animal.
But the world's largest living organism is the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. It is 2,300 kilometers long and is sustained by living coral polyps.
To anyone concerned about our environment, it is projected that by 2050, 95% of the living coral will be dead because of rising sea temperatures.
Yes, President Bush, there IS global warming.

Answer 4

Blue whale is the largest animal (that we're aware of) to ever exist on earth including the dinosaurs. It can weigh up to 136,400 kg (300,000 lb) and grow as long as 34 m (110'). It's also the loudest animal, with vocalizations up to 180 decibels.

Answer 5

The largest animal on the planet now, and that ever lived is the Blue Whale.......strange to think that a mammal is the largest creature to ever roam the earth?

Answer 6

World's Largest Animals

Largest Animal blue whale (110 feet long, 209 tons)

Largest Land Animal African bush elephant (13 feet high, 8 tons)
Tallest Animal giraffe (19 feet tall)
Largest Reptile saltwater crocodile (16 feet long, 1,150 pounds)
Largest Snake Heaviest: anaconda (27 feet, 9 inches long, 500 pounds)
Longest: reticulated python (26-32 feet long)
Longest Fish whale shark (41 1/2 feet long)
Largest Bird: ostrich (9 feet tall, 345 pounds)
Largest Insect: stick insect (15 inches long)

Answer 7

animal...

i DISAGREE, NOT a blue whale (the largest vertebrate)

a member of the "animal kingdom", might not have a back bone?

so coral reef could be suggested, not however genetically distinct at an individual...

i believe some individual sponges have been found to weigh several hundred tones, and sponges are "animals"

the largest "organism" in the world, is a fungus, Armillaria ostoyae. it grows almost completely unseen underground for 9.8 km!

i vote for the invertebrates...

(some one has to... they are completely spineless after all) ;-)

Answer 8

A blue whale is the largest animal that has ever been discovered . . . including extinct fossilized animals. Yes they are bigger than Brontosaurs.

Answer 9

largest land animal african elephant and offcourse whale water animal

Answer 10

giraffe tallest. blue whale is the biggest