What is the largest living creature on Earth that is still alive today?
Unstoppable, it continues to grow wildly!
The blue whale is the largest animal still alive on Earth. This baleen whale is a small order of marine mammals that can reach a maximum size of over 33 meters and can weigh over 180 tons, making it deservedly the largest surviving animal on Earth!
Which is the largest animal in geological history?
Which is the largest animal that has ever appeared on earth? The blue whale counts as one of them! Some friends will certainly think that fragile double cavity dragons because the information about fragile double cavity dragons in the Baidu encyclopedia is: a body length of 40-58 meters, weight between 180 tons - 220 tons, obviously this data is far beyond the data of blue whale.
And it is a dinosaur with a close relationship with Lianglong, a land animal so huge that I wonder how imposing it is when it walks, maybe a foot can kick over half the village! In 1877 paleontologist Edward Delink Cope hired fossil collector Oramel Lucas to discover part of the spine of the fragile double carnosaurs in Garden Park, north of Canon City, Colorado, USA.
Vertebrae of Fragile Dictyoceratops compared with human
From this part of the skeleton, it is speculated that Fragile Dictyoceratops may have been bigger than a blue whale! You read it right, there is only one skeleton, and this skeleton is lost, leaving only a sketch of the skeleton, so now to turn out, using the computer to rebuild a model is a bit difficult.
So whether Fragile Dictyoceratops was the largest or not has always been a muddled account! According to previous studies by archaeologists, the skeleton of Fragile Dictyoceratops is more similar to the fossil of Rebaziosaurus, and its individual length is between 28 and 32 meters after re-recovery, and its weight is about 62 tons.
Therefore the largest dinosaur may have to be produced between Argentinosaurus and Patagotitan and North American Chironosaurus, which is presumed to belong to a Chironosaurus with a body length of up to 50 meters and a weight of nearly 100 tons based on a fossil cervical vertebra numbered BYU 9024. Therefore the largest terrestrial animal in the new geological history is likely to be North American Chironosaurus, but this is still rather controversial.
And the marine animal is still the blue whale. No animal can match the size of the blue whale!
Which is the largest existing creature in history?
What if we expand the range to creatures? Which is the largest creature on Earth? Perhaps the crown would have to go to two owners, one for the tallest tree and one for the largest in total size.
An almond eucalyptus felled in 1881 stands 114.3 meters tall, and on August 25, 2006, naturalists Chris Atkins and Mykel Taylor discovered a California redwood tree up to 115.85 meters tall in an isolated area of Redwood National Park in California, USA. (The legendary Almond Eucalyptus has even been known to reach 132.6 meters, but this is an unofficial record).
The largest is a 2300-2700 year old General Sherman tree in Sequoia National Park in California, USA. This is a giant fir, and although it is only 83.8 meters tall, it has a volume of 1,487 cubic meters and a total weight of about 1,910 tons.
The king is coming, but he is dying
The Pando Forest in Fish Lake National Forest in the western Colorado Plateau in south-central Utah, USA, is the world's largest single life form. The 47,000 aspens covering 43 hectares and weighing a total of more than 6,000 tons are all from a seed that drifted here during the Ice Age 80,000 years ago and then took root. All are male seismic aspens, which come through root asexual reproduction, meaning they are all the same.
But the Pando Forest has been shrinking in size since records began in 1939 of the last century, and none of the new saplings have appeared. Paul Rogers, an ecologist at Utah State University, assessed the Pando Forest, where only old trees and no new aspen trees have emerged.
The reason then is pests and pests and the flooding of mule deer, which gnaw on aspen seedlings causing the aging of the Pando Forest, while the real reason is the wolf extermination and grizzly bear eradication that began in the Midwest of the United States in the early twentieth century, and the story that followed is well known, as many places have been affected by vegetation and severe soil erosion due to the absence of gray wolves and grizzly bears and the flooding of mule deer and other phytophagous animals.
This is Yellowstone Park in the last century in 1995 specifically introduced gray wolves to restore the ecological balance of the park, Utah's Pando Forest is only 600 km away from Yellowstone Park, also within the range of the restored population of gray wolves, the future of the Pando Forest may be changed as a result.
The weight of a single organism, unprecedented before and since
In 1998, scientists from the U.S. Forest Service discovered the Oregon honeysuckle, which covers 8.9 square kilometers and is estimated to have grown for more than 2,400 years, while the distribution of such huge honeysuckle is a whole connected by mycelium, and its total mass is estimated to be as high as 35,000 tons.
The honey ring fungus grows from spores to a meter of adult mushrooms in just three days, although the mother will die, its mycelium growth of honey ring fungus can be eternally youthful, and its appearance also seriously affects the growth of trees, plant roots will rot as a result, such as Douglas fir, true fir, pine, western hemlock and more than twenty kinds of plants are affected, growth fire, excavators digging trenches can not stop them from spreading.
Therefore the area where the honeysuckle is spreading has been prohibited for tourists to enter, because the spores may attach to tourists and be carried to other places, and then continue to spread.
The state of Oregon has also set up fire department drills in the woods affected by the beech fungus in the national park, and the "show" is free, even lighting fires directly in the forest. Field training! But what's the point, the mycelium of the beech bacterium can penetrate more than 10 meters into the ground, digging three feet, is not enough!
So this crown is letting Malur National Park pressure, after all, like a forest tumor is spreading but nothing can be done!
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