Big Animals

This page contains an alphabetic list of all the animals featured on this site. Look up your favourite big animal, and see what makes it so special!

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African Bush Elephant – heaviest land animal
American Lobster – heaviest arthropod and crustacean
Anaconda – see Green Anaconda
Antarctic Squid – see Colossal Squid
Anthropornis – biggest ever penguin
Asiatic Reticulated Python – see Reticulated Python
Atlas Moth – largest moth, insect with the biggest wings

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Beach Stone-curlew – heaviest wader (shorebird)
Beach Thick-knee – see Beach Stone-curlew
Blue Whale – biggest animal

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Caecilian Thompsoni – world’s biggest caecilian
Capybara – world’s biggest rodent
Catala’s Starfish – heaviest echinoderm and starfish
Chinese Giant Salamander – world’s biggest amphibian
Coconut Crab – biggest land arthropod and crustacean
Colossal Squid – biggest mollusk, biggest invertebrate
Common Anaconda – see Green Anaconda
Cook Strait Tuatara – biggest tuatara
Crowned Pigeon – biggest tree-living pigeon
Cuban Giant Owl – biggest owl ever

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Diprotodon – biggest ever marsupial mammal
Dodo – biggest ever pigeon

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Elephant Bird – heaviest ever bird
Emperor Penguin – biggest penguin
Eurasian Eagle Owl – biggest owl

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Far Eastern Curlew – biggest wader (shorebird)

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Galápagos Tortoise or Galápagos Giant Tortoise – biggest tortoise
Giant Cranch Squid – see Colossal Squid
Giant Cursorial Owl – see Cuban Giant Owl
Giant Golden-Crowned Flying Fox – biggest bat
Giant Moa – tallest ever bird
Giant Velvet Worm – see Unnamed Species of Velvet Worm
Gigantopithecus – biggest ever primate
Giraffe – tallest land animal
Golden-Capped Fruit Bat – see Giant Golden-Crowned Flying Fox
Goliath Beetle – heaviest insect
Goliath Bird-Eating Spider – biggest spider
Goliath Frog – biggest frog
Greater Flamingo – biggest flamingo
Green Anaconda – heaviest snake
Green Peafowl – galliforme with the biggest wingspan

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Hippopotamus – heaviest even-toed ungulate
Hyacinth Macaw – longest parrot, biggest flying parrot

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Japanese Spider Crab – biggest arthropod and crustacean
Josephoartigasia Monesi – biggest ever rodent

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Kakapo – heaviest parrot
King Cobra – largest venomous snake
Komodo Dragon – biggest lizard
Kori Bustard – heaviest flying bird

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Leatherback Sea Turtle – biggest turtle
Leedsichthys – biggest ever fish
Little Barrier Island Giant Weta – biggest adult insect

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Marquesan Imperial Pigeon – biggest pigeon
Megalania – biggest ever land lizard
Megalodon Shark – biggest ever shark
Midgardia Xandaros – biggest starfish and echinoderm (longest arms, not the heaviest)
Mountain Gorilla – biggest primate

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North American Wild Turkey – biggest galliforme

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O

Ostrich – biggest bird
Owl Parrot – see Kakapo

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Polar Bear – biggest land Carnivoran

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Red Kangaroo – biggest marsupial mammal
Reticulated Python – longest snake
Robber Crab – see Coconut Crab.

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Saltwater Crocodile – biggest reptile
Southern Elephant Seal – biggest carnivoran
Square-Lipped Rhinoceros – see White Rhinoceros

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Thompson’s Caecilian – see Caecilian Thompsoni
Titanoboa – biggest ever Snake
Trichoplax Adhaerens – biggest (and only) Placozoan
Trumpeter Swan – biggest waterfowl
Tylosaurus – biggest ever lizard, biggest ever marine reptile

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Unnamed species of Velvet Worm – biggest Velvet Worm

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Wandering Albatross – biggest flying bird
Water Boa – see Green Anaconda
Western Long Beaked Echidna – biggest monotreme
Wetapunga – see Little Barrier Island Giant Weta
Whale Shark – biggest fish
White Rhinoceros – biggest odd-toed ungulate, fourth biggest land animal

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