Monday, May 25, 2009

Massive Beasts

clipped from webecoist.com
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Blue whale the planet’s largest single living animal
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African Bush Elephant is actually as deadly as it is huge. At up to nearly 20,000 lbs it is the largest and most massive creature living on land
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Elephant Seals
are massive, with bulls weighing up to 6,000 lbs
(images via greg lasley, oostwestthijsbest)
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Hippopotamuses
related to whales like the porpoise.
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Polar bears
can weigh up to 1,500 lbs
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White Rhinoceros, but nobody would recommend it. Weighing up to nearly 8,000 lbs
Salt-Water Crocodile
3,000 lbs and 20 feet long
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40 foot long, 15 ton Whale Shark
Manta Rays have been found with wing-spans of 25 feet and weights of 5,000 lbs, and recently the Giant Squid was knocked off its thrown by the Colossal Squid, measuring in at 46 feet.
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the “Liger”
700 lbs at a 10 foot length
Wild Boar
over 600 lbs
Anaconda
lengths of 60 feet
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General Sherman tree
stands 275 feet high
2,700 years old
Quaking Aspen
107 acres
80,000 years
African Baobab
150 foot circumference.
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