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It is widely held to be the world's most massive single organism. This article lists the largest organisms for various types of life and mostly considers extant species, [a] which found on Earth can be determined according to various aspects of an organism's size, such as: mass, volume, area, length, height, or even genome size.
The saltwater crocodile is the largest living reptile. The largest living reptile, a representative of the order Crocodilia, is the saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) of Southern Asia and Australia, with adult males being typically 3.9–5.5 m (13–18 ft) long. The largest confirmed saltwater crocodile on record was 6.32 m (20.7 ft) long ...
[48] [49] Apart from its extreme age, it is also thought to be the world's largest organism by area, at 2,384 acres (965 hectares). A huge colony of the sea grass Posidonia australis in the Australian coast over Shark Bay, estimated to be over 4,500 years old and also the biggest known plant. [50] [51]
The Komodo dragon is the largest living species of lizard in the world. The largest of the monitor lizards (and the largest extant lizard in genera) is the Komodo dragon ( Varanus komodoensis ), endemic to the island of its name, at a maximum size of 3.13 m (10.3 ft) long and 166 kg (366 lb), although this is currently the only record that ...
The Hazelwood Tree (not listed above) had a volume of 1,025.86 m 3 (36,228 cu ft) before losing half its trunk in a lightning storm in 2002, if it were still at full size it would currently be the 17th largest giant sequoia on earth. The largest giant sequoia killed at the hands of man was the Discovery Tree at Calaveras Grove, which was cut ...
New current world record longest Burmese Python recorded by official measurement July 12, 2023. [ 90 ] [ 22 ] [ 91 ] "Baby" a captive Burmese python ( Python bivittatus ) female♀ 5.74 m (18 ft 10 in), 182.8 kg (403 lb); "Baby" was kept at Serpent Safari in Gurnee, Illinois , until her death at almost 27 years old, euthanized due to ...
Pando (from Latin pando 'I spread') [1] is the world's largest tree, a quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) located in Sevier County, Utah, United States, in the Fishlake National Forest. A male clonal organism , Pando has an estimated 47,000 stems (ramets) that appear to be individual trees, but are connected by a root system that spans 42.8 ha ...
A reticulated python kept in the United States in Kansas City, Missouri, named "Medusa" is considered by the Guinness Book of World Records to be the longest living snake ever kept in captivity. In 2011 it was reported to measure 7.67 m (25 ft 2 in) and weigh 158.8 kg (350 lb 2 oz). [35]