Top 100 Animal Size Comparison

We often hear about the biggest animals that would easily tower over humans twice, thrice, and some even ten times. But how big, exactly, are they? If you are thinking blue whale is the largest animals ever to exist. You are totally wrong. Here are the list of top 100 animal size comparison.
100. Kikiki Huna
Size: 0.15 mm
Kikiki is a genus of fairy fly wasps containing a single species Kikiki huna, known from Hawaii, Costa Rica, Nagarcoil and Trinidad.
95. The smallest frog
Size: 7.7 mm
Paedophryne amauensis is a species of microhylid frog from Papua New Guinea. It is considered the world's smallest known vertebrate.
91 American Cockroaches
Size: 4.1 mm
The American cockroach is the largest species of common cockroach, and often considered a pest. In certain regions of the U.S. it is also known as the ship cockroach, kakerlake, and Bombay canary.
87. House Lizards
Size: 11.4 cm
The common house gecko Hemidactylus frenatus not to be confused with Hemidactylus turcicus, the Mediterranean house gecko, is a gecko native to Southeast Asia.
84. Kangaroo Rats
Size: 26 cm
Kangaroo rats, small mostly nocturnal rodents of genus Dipodomys, are native to arid areas of western North America. The common name derives from their bipedal form.
80 Parvicursor
Size: 39 cm
Parvicursor meaning small rune is a genus of tiny maniraptoran dinosaur with long slender legs for fast running. At only about 39 centimeters 15 in; 1.28 ft from snout to end of tail.
73. Black panther
Size: 76 cm
The term black panther is most frequently applied to black-coated leopards of Africa and Asia and jaguars of Central and South America; black-furred variants of these species are also called black leopards and black jaguars, respectively.
69. Eagle
Size: 1 m
Eagle is the common name for many large birds of prey of the family Accipitridae. Eagles belong to several groups of genera, not all of which are closely related.
50. Panda
Size: 1.8 m
Mamenchisaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur including several species, known for their remarkably long necks which made up half the total body length.
41. Chinese Salamander
Size: 1.8m
The Chinese Giant Salamander is the largest living amphibian in the world. They are known as living fossils. Despite their fascinating nature, they are endangered and rare in the wild.
39. Lions
Size: 2.5 m
Powerful and majestic, the king of the beasts has no natural predators. Lions are the most sociable of all big cats.
37. Ostrich
Size: 2.7 m
It is a species of large flightless bird native to certain large areas of Africa. Though they cannot fly, ostriches are fleet, strong runners. They can sprint up to 43 miles an hour.
31. Japanese spider crab
Size: 3.7 m
It has the largest leg span of any arthropod. These giants go through three main larval stages along with a prezoeal stage in order to grow to their great size.
28. Great White Sharks
Size: 5m
While the shark in Jaws was inspired by a great white shark in New Jersey, the legendary fish is far less fearsome in reality.
26. Giraffe
Size: 4.66 m
These are the world's tallest mammals, thanks to their towering legs and long necks. A giraffe's legs alone are taller than many humans—about 6 feet.
19. Green Anacondas
Size: 5.21m
The green anaconda is a non-venomous boa species found in South America. It is the heaviest and one of the longest known extant snake species.
18. Whale Sharks
Size: 7.7 m
Whale sharks are the largest shark, and indeed largest of any fishes alive today. They feed on plankton and travel large distances to find enough food to sustain their huge size, and to reproduce.
16. Saltwater Crocodile
Size: 7m
Saltwater crocodiles are the largest crocodile species in the world, and the largest living reptile in the world. An adult has 66 teeth on average and the greatest bite pressure of any animal in the world.
13. Mammoth
Size: 3.5 m
A mammoth is any species of the extinct elephant genus Mammoths, one of the many genera that make up the order of trunked mammals called proboscideans.
9. Colossal Squid
Size: 14 m
Colossal squid, are one of the largest, most elusive, and mysterious of the cephalopods. These massive squid are reported to measure up to 14 m in total length and they can weigh an estimated 150 kg.
6. Megalodon
Size: 16 m
Megalodon is an extinct species of shark that lived approximately 23 to 3.6 million years ago, during the Early Miocene to the Pliocene.
3. Blue Whales
Size: 25m
This giant is the largest animal on the planet, weighing as much as 200 tons. The blue whale has a heart the size of a Volkswagen Beetle.
1. Siphonophores
Size: 40 m
Siphonophorae is an order of Hydrozoans, a class of marine organisms belonging to the phylum Cnidaria. It is longer than the blue whale, which is usually considered Earth's largest animal.
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