The largest animal in our time isa blue whale with a length of more than 30 m and a body weight of 150 m. There are cases when males reach 33 m in length and their weight is 190 tonnes. Despite the fact that whales live in water, they are mammals that feed their cubs with milk .

Of the animals living on land, the record belongs toelephant, whose weight may be up to 5 tons and 3.5 m height. But palm height he concedes giraffe which easily reaches up to the branches at a height of 6 m.

Among the birds the largest is the ostrich, looking at the world from a height of 2.5 m, with a weight of 150 kg.

Saying which animal is the largest,remember the prehistoric times when the planet was inhabited by giant lizards. The largest extinct animal in the history of the Earth is the long-dead herbivorous dinosaur amphichelias, whose length, according to scientists, reached 60 m and body weight 150 tons.

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