20 - Macroptychaster Sea Stars • Found in antarctic waters in 2008, though
gigantism is common there • 2 feet in width, they feed on invertebrats
and smaller sea stars, found over 600 meters below water
• Holding them is like holding up a small infant
19 - Giant Weta Cricket • 11 species, HUGE insect
• Body length of 4 inches, weighs 20-30g • They've been known to devour giant vegetables
alone • They're greek name is Deinacrida, "the
Terrible Grasshopper" 18 - Capybara
• largest rodent in the worlds, like a giant hamster
• Found in South America, usually near water • They reach 1.5 meters in length, 3 feet
tall, and weigh over a hundred kilograms • They typically hang out in large packs
17 - Giant African land snail • Their shells alone grown to the length
of 18 centimetres and 9 cenimetres wide, the entire snail can reach up to 8 inches in length
• Frequently confiscated at airports because people keep these things as pets, mainly because
people value their size, distinctive markings and rarity
• Though the snail is technically considered a pest that negatively affects agriculture
and ecosystems 16 - Dalmatian Pelican
• Found all over the place, from Southeastern Europe, China and parts of India, mainly around
swamps and lakes • It gets upwards of 160cms in length, 30
pounds in weight and with wings spread, 3 metres in length
• It's also the worlds heaviest bird species, though there are exceptions from time to time
15 - Flemish Giant • Domesticated rabbits, massive, often mistaken
for dogs • Weights 10 to 12kg
• They were bred in the 16th century near belgium, also the ancestor to many rabbits
alive today • Since the early 1900s they're primarily
seen in livestock shows due to their size and varying colours - and they've been dubbed
with the nickname: Gentle Giants 14 - Saltwater Crocodile
• Largest of all living reptiles • Can reach sizes upwards of 6 metres, and
weight beyond 2000kg • You'll usually find these things in mangrove
swamps, deltas, lagoons, rivers or hanging off a dude's arm
• They're known as a hypercarnivorous apex ambush predator, and they can fight almost
ANY animal that enters its territory 13 - Japanese Spider Crab
• Large, nightmarish legs • 4 metres tall, almost 20 kilograms
• In spite of its ferocious appearance, it has a gentle disposition
• Make no mistake though, those claws can slice your face clean in two
12 - Coconut Crab • Species of terrestrial hermit crab, largest
living anthropod on Earth • Weighs up to 4 kgs and grows up to 1 meter
in length • Its claws can crush a coconut in half,
so like the spider crab, best to leave them alone
• If it's crawling on your trash bin, I recommend buying a new trash bin
11 - Great Dane • Big danes pop up every now and then, Giant
George, Titan and Zeus have all been Guiness World Record Holders
• The big ones weight around 250 pounds and reach over 40 inches in height
• Unfortunately some like Titan suffered health problems like deafness, blindness and
epilepsy, and because of their limited lifespan most of them are now dead
10 - Chinese Giant Salamander • largest salamander on Earth, over 5 feet
in length • Endangered species, half because they're
considered a delicacy, but also because of human-caused pollution, habitat reduction
and they're also harvested for types of medicine • Curiously enough, it's also basically
blind, which makes getting away from humans more difficult
9 - Mekong Catfish • Typically found in China's waterways,
rumoured to have grown on pollution • 10 feet long, turned into a delicacy,
provides meals for dozens 8 - Giraffe
• Tallest living animal on Earth atm • 6 metres tall, weighs between 1,500 to
800 kgs based on gender • Neck alone is 2 metres high
7 - Titanoboa (snake) • The "Titanic boa" largest snake ever
• 50 feet long, foot wide weighs dozens more than largest current living snake
• Alive 60 million years after the fall of the dinosaurs
6 - African Bush Elephant • Heaviest land animal alive today
• 7 metres in length, 3 metres in height and weighs 6 tons
• Because of its size, no other animals tend to hunt it, but its young are frequently
assaulted by tigers, crocodiles and hyenas 5 - Giant Stingray
• One of the largest freshwater fishes in the world
• Growns upwards of 1.9 metres in length and weighs 600kg
• Heavily fished for meat, recreation and aquarium display, lead to population declines
in central Thailand and Cambodia 4 - Leedsichthys
• Biggest fish ever to exist • 54 feet long, weighs 50 metric tons
• Lived in the jurassic period, when dinosaurs ruled the earth and marine predators were
abundant • It's one fish you don't ever want to mess
with 3 - Argentinosaurus
• 100 millions years old • Six or seven story tall building in length
• 120 feet long, 100 tons, biggest dinosaur ever
• Like giraffe, needed long neck to reach high canopies to eat plants
2 - Spinosaurus • It's known as the "Spine Lizard", if you
think the Tyrannosaurus is terrifying, the Spinosaurus is the largest predator to ever
exist on Earth • It was 60 feet long, 20 feet high, weighed
almost 10 metric tons and if alive today would snack on human beings
• We're still not 100% sure what the spine was for, but theories suggest either to warm
itself up using the sun, or to attract a mate 1 - Blue Whale
• Marine animal coming in at 30 metres in length and 180 metric tons in weight
• Feeds on krill, consumes over 3 tons of food a day
• It's heart is the size of a small car • It's tongue alone could support 50 full
grown human beings • Biggest animal ever to exist on Earth