Biggest Giant Grouper-world record set by Nelson Shayne. [Jan 4]Latham Island,Tanzania--One of The Pemba Channel Fishing Club's Bertram's Shuwari, while fishing out of Latham Island hooked up and boated a Giant Grouper weighing 179.5 kg. This is a new world record for the biggest Giant Grouper. Nelson Shayne and a couple of friends chartered Shuwari for a trip to Latham Island, Dar es Salaam.
Robert Paddle (2000, p. 4), in his book: The Last Tasmanian Tiger, quotes an average direct length for an adult male thylacine as 1.63m, and an adult female as 1.54m. The average male body length measurement as cited by Paddle is consistent with the sample group.
1 Tasmanian Devil had become the largest carnivore marsupial after the extinction of Tasmanian wolf (thylacine) in 1936.2  It seems like a small bear with the length measuring 20.5 to 30.5 inches (53 â 80 cm). 3  Tasmanian devil has 9 â 12 inches (23 â 30 cm) long tail. Tasmanian Devil had become the largest carnivore marsupial after the extinction of Tasmanian wolf (thylacine) in 1936.