![]() ![]() The African elephant is now listed as two species, the African bush elephant and the African forest elephant, as they are now generally considered to be two separate species. The heaviest land animals are all mammals. The blue whale is the heaviest living animal. Infographic showing the size of marine megafauna. Since no scale can accommodate the whole body of a large whale, most have been weighed by parts. The heaviest living animals are all whales. ![]() This male had a computed weight of 10.4 tonnes. It was a male measuring 10.67 metres (35.0 ft) from trunk to tail and 4.17 metres (13.7 ft) lying on its side in a projected line from the highest point of the shoulder, to the base of the forefoot, indicating a standing shoulder height of 3.96 metres (13.0 ft). The largest elephant ever recorded was shot in Angola in 1974. ![]() A native of various open habitats in sub-Saharan Africa, males weigh about 6.0 tonnes (13,200 lb) on average. The African bush elephant ( Loxodonta africana) is the largest living land animal. The upper estimates of weight for these two prehistoric animals would have easily rivaled or exceeded the blue whale. While controversial, estimates for the weight of the sauropod Bruhathkayosaurus suggest it was around 110–170 tons, with the highest estimate being 240 tons, if scaled with Patagotitan, although actual fossil remains no longer exist, and that estimation is based on described dimensions in 1987. In 2023, paleontologists estimated that the extinct whale Perucetus, discovered in Peru, may have outweighed the blue whale, with a mass of 85 to 340 t (94–375 short tons 84–335 long tons). The longest non- colonial animal is the lion's mane jellyfish (37 m, 120 ft). It is estimated, this individual could have a mass of 250 tonnes. The maximum recorded weight was 190 tonnes for a specimen measuring 27.6 metres (91 ft), whereas longer ones, up to 33.6 metres (110 ft), have been recorded but not weighed. The largest animal currently alive is the blue whale. ![]()
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