As human beings, we come in different forms and sizes.
Our structure is different from one another.
But it is safe to say that humans cannot grow up to 20 feet.
The story is that once we reach adulthood, we stopped growing, and the only way that
we grow after that is to be growing smaller - due to old age.
However, this is not the case with animals.
We do not know if these creatures continue to grow for the rest of their lives.
Well, stay tuned for the rest of the video, because we will find out how big animals can
get, and where can we find them!
It is amazing that nature unfolds the way it was meant to be.
Every evolution is based on a million DNA mutations that happen on one single species.
In the first corner, weighing up to 600 kilograms and standing 4 meters tall is the African
Elephant.
It was tagged as the largest land animal that we can find today.
If it will be compared to an average human being, an average human stands at 1.6 meters
tall and weighs up to 62 kilograms - if closely moved to each other, the human stands as tall
as half of its limb.
But if the titan is to be part of the comparison, the African elephant could not compare for
it will be a tiny creature compared to this colossal being that once roamed the planet.
Next, this creature, although smaller than the African elephant, can be unsettling to
see of placed next to a human being - the Anthropornis.
This creature that lived once in the history of the Earth and the largest kind of penguin
to ever existed, stood at 1.8 meters tall and weighed 90 kilograms.
Just imagine, how cute and at the same time how terrifying this creature could waddle
beside a man.
Most of the creature that exists today has way bigger and scarier ancestors that once
stepped on our planet.
We are one lucky species because we live in an era that they don’t exist anymore.
Take this example, picture every rodent that you have seen in your life, and compare it
to its ancestor- the Josephoartigasia monesi.
This unsettling creature grew up to 3 meters in length, stood up to 1.5 meters tall, and
weighed up to 1 ton.
If we are about to compare the size of this colossal rodent, its size is just as big as
a Toyota Corolla Altis.
You may think that this humongous rodent is terrifying but have you remembered about the
giant reptile that was once called Titanoboa?
It is a gigantic snake that lived way, way back in our ancient times - millions of years
ago and once lived in South America.
This giant snake can grow up to 12.8 meters long and can weigh up to 1135 kilograms.
If this snake is to consume one human being - it’ll do in just ONE GULP.
If you ask me, we are pretty lucky that this snake does not exist anymore.
Moving on, the largest Arachnid to walk the Earth was called - Pulmonoscorpius.
It is an ancient scorpion that has measured 70 centimeters long.
Imagine seeing a pack of this walking in your sight?
What a terrifying day it will be, right?
Speaking of terrifying, this creature was known to be the largest crocodile to ever
exist on our planet, the Sarcosuchus.
It was known to have measured in length of 12 meters and weighed a booming 8 tons.
It would take almost 7 Toyota Corolla Altis to really measure its weight!
Although considered frightening, this carnivore is far smaller than the largest carnivore
that has ever existed.
When thinking about the largest carnivore - the Tyrannosaurus rex secures the number
one spot.
But this spot really belonged to the Spinosaurus.
This kind of dinosaur measures up to 15 meters long and weighs up to 21 tons.
So while this creature holds the title of the largest carnivore that
has ever existed in our history, it is not the largest land creature.
The distinction has to go to the other type of dinosaur, the Titanosaur.
Measurements that were taken from its confirmed fossil revealed that this creature has measured
a very impressive length of 37 meters and has weighed almost 70 tons!
This is the equivalent of 12 grown African elephants weighed together.
Compared to humans, the size of this species was truly epic.
According to scientists, the size of this creature was the maximum size of any living
thing that biology can allow to exist on Earth!
How cool was that?
The explanation was simple as this; if you consider any living thing on Earth and you
somehow increase its size, its mass would also increase by a power of 3.
In addition, the width of that creature - considering its muscle and bones would also increase by
a power of 2.
In conclusion, the larger a creature is, the more mass it would need for its bones to support
its whole structure.
Because of this found law, and the effect of gravity on living things on Earth, it is
extremely doubtful that there is a land creature that existed on Earth that weighed more than
100 tons.
On the contrary, the ocean plays a different set of equations.
The impact of size of a living creature on its body is not affected in the ocean due
to the buoyancy of the water.
Unlike the creatures that traveled the Earth by land, the creatures that have swum in our
oceans do not need to maintain their weight to be able to prop up properly.
This is where the colossal Blue Whale comes in - which weighs up to 181 tons.
The largest water creature to have existed.
But this big Orion is unlikely to come close to the largest water creature ever known by
man.
The problem of these living creatures in the ocean is not gravity anymore but is its survival
- their food and energy consumption.
These creatures in order for them to survive need to consume a total of 3600kg of their
favorite food - Krill, every single day!
That amount of Krill is equivalent to almost 17,000 Big Macs!
And for just one whale.
Anything larger than that would mean it should consume a much greater amount of food in order
for them to survive.
The larger the creature, the greater food it needs in order to support its living.
Other creatures that existed that are much larger than this Blue Whale is another topic
to be discussed over another video.
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