Reny Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Base on the topic, I'm quite confused which of the following is the world largest animal nowadays? ( Just ignore those fossil creatures ) 1) Giant Squid 2) Blue Whale thanks for helping Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenshin Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 It's blue whale.Just today I saw a documentary which claimed that they even eat giant squids.The crew was checking there stomachs to get any remains to study them and they even got some.But you better double check it.(whale eat squid stuff,rest is right up to my knowledge.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzurePhoenix Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 The Blue Whale is certainly the largest known animal alive today, and is probably more massive than any creature we have fossil eidence of. (Some saurpod dinosaurs are speculated to have reached even greater sizes, but evidence is sketchy at best.) A blue whale is on average upwards of eighty feet long and can easily weigh 150 tons, with animals measured up to a hundred feet long and possibly as much as 200 tons. On the otherhand, giant squid are puny by comparison, reaching lengths of thirty to fifty feet (as far as we know), much of this consisting of their lengthy tentacles. Large sharks, small whale and such are often more massive than the giant squid, which only grow to a max of maybe two tons. Anywho, the collosal squid of antarctic waters is though to be larger than the giant. Just today I saw a documentary which claimed that they even eat giant squids.The crew was checking there stomachs to get any remains to study them and they even got some.But you better double check it.(whale eat squid stuff,rest is right up to my knowledge.) The BLue Whale is a balleen whale, meaning that it feeds mainly on schools of small krill by straining water through bristle-like balleen plates. The Sperm Whale is the large toothed whale known to feed on giant squid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenshin Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Yup.My mistake azure.There by "They" I meant whales and not blue whales.You are right.Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzurePhoenix Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Actually, I should mention that a number of land animals are often larger than giant squid, even the largest squid being outmassed by elephants, rhinos, hippos, estuarine crocodiles, etc. Average sized squid may be lighter than brown and polar bears, cattle, big cats, etc. Yup.My mistake azure.There by "They" I meant whales and not blue whales.You are right.Thanks. Eh, no big deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royston Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 There's a life size model at the 'Natural History Museum' in London, if you want to get the size of a blue whale in perspective...they're HUGE. I'm not sure I buy that they've eaten giant squid, they've adapted to feed on plankton and daphnia...hence their teeth, they act as filters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cloud Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 I'm pretty sure the blue whale is the biggest creature EVER to have lived on Earth. (IF there was a bigger one - we would have found it by now) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecoli Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 I'm pretty sure the blue whale is the biggest creature EVER to have lived on Earth. (IF there was a bigger one - we would have found it by now) The largest dinosaur was about half the size of a blue whale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzurePhoenix Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 The largest dinosaur was about half the size of a blue whale. Well, Argentinosaurus weighed about two thirds what the average blue whale does, and there seem to be a new species or two that are marginally larger than it. The big question marks go to Amphicoelias and Bruhathkayosaurus. If accurate, the former would rival an average blue whale in wieght, and the latter mught even exceed the biggest blue whales in mass. However, evidence for either has either been lost or is scant and inconclusive. I'm not sure I buy that they've eaten giant squid, they've adapted to feed on plankton and daphnia...hence their teeth, they act as filters. It's undeniable that blue whales don't eat giant squid, Kenshin's post was a simple misscommunication. He meant to refer to whales in general, and I pointed out the sperm whale specifically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzurePhoenix Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 (IF there was a bigger one - we would have found it by now) Actually, many of the biggest discoveries have all been very recent, and it's likely that we've only scratched the surface. Then you have to consider that perhaps there was a true monster of a giant that simply never fossilized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royston Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 It's undeniable that blue whales don't eat giant squid, Kenshin's post was a simple misscommunication. He meant to refer to whales in general, and I pointed out the sperm whale specifically. Oh dear, how did I miss that, it was in the post above mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reny Posted April 8, 2006 Author Share Posted April 8, 2006 Wow~! That's really hleps alot~! Thx ya all~! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WillTheNewf Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 Wow~! That's really hleps alot~! Thx ya all~! Actually the oldest and largest animal on earth is the honey mushroom. That'll amaze your teacher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X facter Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 Actually the oldest and largest animal on earth is the honey mushroom. That'll amaze your teacher A fungus isn't an animal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzurePhoenix Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 For a reference to the largest organisms on the planet, whether fauna, flora or fungi, read This page. It also talks about groups within animalia, and addresses different "types" of largeness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecoli Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 Actually the oldest and largest animal on earth is the honey mushroom. That'll amaze your teacher lol... that's pretty funny. Think about what you're saying! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THoR Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Base on the topic' date=' I'm quite confused which of the following is the world largest animal nowadays? ( Just ignore those fossil creatures )1) Giant Squid 2) Blue Whale thanks for helping [/quote'] It WAS the blue whale, only weeks ago it was inched out by Rosie O'Donnell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theMaharajah Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 It WAS the blue whale, only weeks ago it was inched out by Rosie O'Donnell Has it ever occurred to you that maybe Rosie O'Donnell reads this forum?, imagine how hurt she would be. The eating disorders that it would spawn could result in her death, could you live with that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzurePhoenix Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Has it ever occurred to you that maybe Rosie O'Donnell reads this forum?, imagine how hurt she would be. The eating disorders that it would spawn could result in her death, could you live with that? That might depend on how big a parade we threw in Thor's honor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 slightly off-topic... but that Thiomargarita namibiensis is scary! its the largest bacterium known... and is visible to the naked eye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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