dinosaurs were the biggest animal that ever lived on land.
dinosaurs were the biggest animal that ever lived on land.
what is the biggest animal that ever lived on land?
dinosaurs
the blue whale ("balaenoptera musculus") is the largest animal that has ever lived, weighing up to 190 metric tonnes and measuring up to long. the largest extant terrestrial animal is the african bush elephant ("loxodonta africana"), weighing up to 12.25 tonnes and measuring up to long. the largest terrestrial animals that ever lived were titanosaur sauropod dinosaurs such as "argentinosaurus", which may have weighed as much as 73 tonnes. several animals are microscopic; some myxozoa (obligate parasites within the cnidaria) never grow larger than 20 µm, and one of the smallest species ("myxobolus shekel") is no more than 8.5 µm when fully grown.
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bullet::::- "animals in the field and laboratory: science projects in animal behavior", illustrated by emily mccully (mcgraw-hill, 1968), 160 pp.









































bullet::::- "the look-it-up book of the earth", illus. john polgreen (random house, 1968), 132 pp.









































bullet::::- "motion", illus. mehli gobhai (coward-mccann, 1968), 45 pp.









































bullet::::- "chip rogers, computer whiz", illus. steve miller (william morrow & co., 1984)









































bullet::::- "the dinosaur is the biggest animal that ever lived and other wrong ideas you thought were true", illus. giulio maestro (harpercollins, 1984)









































bullet::::- "the moon" (four winds press (scholastic corp.), 1984), illustrated by photographs of the moon from space, 32 pp.
seymour simon (author)