We know that the ocean is a deep, dark, and scary place
filled with both terrifying and majestic creatures,
but just how massive can some of these creatures get?
And is there any truth to legendarily huge sea monsters?
Let's start with a creature that most of us
are familiar with, the Great White Shark
which was the inspiration for "Jaws" in
Steven Spielberg's classic horror film.
Throughout this video we're going to be using three different scales,
a creature's weight in terms of average humans and Toyota Corollas,
its size compared to an average human and its length in terms of school buses.
With that in mind a Great White Shark can weigh in at
up to a massive 2,268 kilograms, which is equal to
about two Toyota Corollas or 37 average humans combined.
It can also grow to be 6.1 meters long or about 45%
the length of an American school bus,
these guys are even more frightening
when you consider that they can swim up
to 56 km/h and have one of the most
powerful bites in the entire Animal Kingdom,
clocking in at about 4,000 P.S.I.
which is far more than the required 1,700
P.S.I. needed to shatter a human femur bone,
they also exist in all of the world's
oceans but their attacks on humans are
incredibly rare, but the Great White
Shark isn't actually the largest living
carnivore, as that title would actually
go to the unexpectedly enormous Southern
Elephant Seal, which can weigh up to
5,000 kilograms, that's more than twice
the weight of a Great White Shark and
six times heavier than a fully grown
Polar Bear, equal to about four Toyota
Corollas, 80 average humans or 20 Andre the Giants.
They can grow up to 6.85 meters long, which is exactly
half the length of a school bus, they
exist in the wild only in the southern
hemisphere around Antarctica and South
America, but that's not true for our next
gigantic creature, the Lion's Mane
Jellyfish, this thing can weigh in at up
to 1,000 kilogram, equal to almost one full
Toyota Corolla or 16 humans.
More shocking than their weight, however, is
their length, since they can grow up to
an astonishing 37 meters long, equal to
the length of 2.7 school buses stacked
end to end. Their tentacles will sting you
and will hurt a lot, but will almost
never kill you, they exist in the Pacific
and Atlantic Oceans, but
especially common in the English Channel,
Irish Sea, and North Sea. The creature
on this list that we know the least
about, is certainly the Colossal Squid
which has you can guess from the name, is
actually a pretty big squid, that is
believed away up to 750 kilograms or
about the same as 12 average humans,
they can grow up to 14 meters long, which
is just slightly longer than a school
bus is and they also possess the largest eyes
in the animal kingdom at 40 centimetres
in diameter, which is much larger than
your entire head is, these squids come
equipped with razor-sharp hooks inside
of their tentacles that can swivel
around like some sort of buzz saw from
hell, but despite their intimidating size
and equipment, they remain a primary food
source of the much larger Sperm Whale.
Sperm Whales are gigantic creatures that
can weigh up to 41 metric tons, about the
same as 32 Toyota Corollas, they can grow
up to a length of 20.5 meters,
which is roughly 1½ school
buses long, and they primarily hunt both
Colossal and Giant Squid, something
interesting to think about, is that
statistically right now, as you are
watching this video and hearing me
speaking, there is an epic battle going
on right now somewhere underneath the
sea between these two oceanic titans.
There are about 360,000 Sperm Whales in
the world, and they eat 3% of
their body weight per day, which equals
1,230 kilograms of food per day, or about
one Toyota Corolla worth. It is estimated
that 80% of their diet
consists of Giant and Colossal Squid, so
since a Colossal Squid weighs up to 750
kilograms, that means that one of them
equals up to 61% of a Sperm
Whales daily diet. So, if we're generous
and assume that only 70% of
Sperm Whales eat one Giant or Colossal
Squid per day, then that still means that,
there are 252,000
battles between these species going on
every day somewhere, which means that
there's 10,500
battles happening every hour, 175 battles
every minute and about three battles
happening every single second. Since you
started watching this video, there's
already been over 750 battles between
Sperm Whales and Colossal or Giant Squid
somewhere in our ocean.
There is, however, a much larger creature
than even the mighty Sperm Whale, and
that is the absolutely gargantuan Blue
Whale. These things are the largest
animals to have ever existed on our
planet, and yes that even includes all of
the dinosaurs. A single Blue Whale can
weigh up to as much as 200 metric tons,
which is about equal to 155 Toyota
Corollas or one Boeing 777 passenger
jet, in other words a single Blue Whale
can weigh as much as 3,255 people,
which is heavier than the entire human
population of the Falkland Islands (about 3,000 people)
combined, the largest known dinosaur was
Argentinosaurus, which weighed only 90
metric tons, which means that the Blue
Whale is more than twice as large as
even the largest known dinosaur. They can
grow up to a whopping 33.6 metres long,
or about 2½ school buses in
length. The whale's tongue alone, weighs
2.7 tons or about two Toyota
Corollas, its mouth is capable of holding
90 tons of food and water at once, or
about 70 Toyota Corollas worth of weight.
Its heart weighs 180 kilograms, and is
about the same size as a Volkswagen
Beetle, and the sound of its heartbeat
can be heard up to 2 miles (3.2km) away. The
main blood vessel in the whale that
connects to the heart, the aorta, is so
large that a fully grown adult human
could swim through the inside of it like
it was a virus. Even at birth, a newly
born Blue Whale can still weigh
2,700 thousand kilogram (6,000 lbs),
about the same as a fully grown
hippopotamus, they will drink 380 liters/litres
or 100 gallons of milk every day while
growing up, and this will cause them to
grow at around 90 kilograms of weight
every 24 hours until they reach maturity.
Finally, the Blue Whale also has well...
ahem... the largest penis in the entire
Animal Kingdom, an average Blue Whale
penis is 3 meters long, which is
almost twice the height of the average
human. It's unlikely that there are any
creatures that exist, that are larger
than the Blue Whale, but we can't really
know for certain, after all there is
still 95% of the ocean
that still to this day has never been
explored,
and there are estimates that we have
only actually discovered about
14% of all the species of animals on
our planet. So who knows, maybe there's
something even bigger for all we know
that we're just currently unaware of.
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