What is bigger than an elephant?

The largest living animals are blue whales. They weigh up to 150 tons, or 300,000 pounds. The largest living land animals are African elephants. They're much smaller than whales.
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Is there any animal bigger than elephant?

The blue whale is the biggest animal in the world. The elephant is the biggest on land. And the whale shark is the biggest fish in the sea.
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What is the 2nd largest animal in the world?

The fin whale is the second largest animal to ever live, in the entire history of Earth. Reaching lengths of at least 85 feet (26 m) and weights of 80 tons, this species is second only to its close relative, the blue whale.
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Is Hippo bigger than elephant?

Hippos are the second-largest land animal -- second only to elephants. Male hippos can weigh more than 6,000 pounds.
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What's bigger a mammoth or an elephant?

Mammoths were a kind of elephant that lived during the Ice Age. They have gone extinct, which means none of them live anymore. Elephants and mammoths both have a long nose called a trunk, which can grab their favorite food, grass. The difference is mammoths are bigger than elephants and have longer tusks.
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Is a T rex bigger than a mammoth?

Mammoths were much more heavily built and while in height and length they were smaller, they were wider and heavier than T. Rex. Also, while T. Rex did pray on animals the mammoth's size or larger, the closest comparison is the triceratops with the forward facing horns.
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Are dinosaurs bigger than elephants?

Many of the dinosaurs of the Mesozoic Era (about 252 million to 66 million years ago) were longer and more massive than modern elephants, hippopotamuses, and rhinoceroses. The largest dinosaurs of the era were the sauropods, a collection of four-legged herbivorous species that possessed long necks and tails.
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What animal can beat a elephant?

Aside from humans, lions are the only predators powerful enough to kill an elephant. The males, being 50% heavier than the females, are especially suited to the task. It typically takes seven lionesses to kill an elephant, but just two males could do the same. Even a single male can overpower a young elephant.
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Which animal dies after drinking water?

Kangaroo rats die when they drink water. Was this answer helpful?
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What was the 1st animal on Earth?

Earth's first animal was the ocean-drifting comb jelly, not the simple sponge, according to a new find that has shocked scientists who didn't imagine the earliest critter could be so complex. The mystery of the first animal denizen of the planet can only be inferred from fossils and by studying related animals today.
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Is a shark bigger than an elephant?

It is TRUE. The whale shark weighs between 12 and 18 tons, which is more than three elephants put together.
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What is the second largest mammal?

Elephants. Elephants, specifically African bush elephants, are the second largest animals in the world and the largest on land.
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What fish is bigger than elephant?

Whale sharks are the biggest fish in the world and can grow up to 40 feet long and weigh up to 20,000 pounds. That is as tall as two giraffes stacked on top of each other and the weight of two elephants combined! Whale sharks are gentle giants.
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Which is the strongest animal in the world?

1. Dung Beetle. A dung beetle is not only the world's strongest insect but also the strongest animal on the planet compared to body weight. They can pull 1,141 times their own body weight.
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What's bigger rhino or hippo?

The Hippopotamus is the third largest land animal, after the elephant and white rhino.
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What is the fattest animal in the world?

According to BBC, the blue whale is the animal with the highest percentage of body fat on land and sea.
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What are elephants afraid of?

Elephants are afraid of bees. Let that sink in for a second. The largest animal on land is so terrified of a tiny insect that it will flap its ears, stir up dust and make noises when it hears the buzz of a beehive. Of course a bee's stinger can't penetrate the thick hide of an elephant.
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Can a rhino beat an elephant?

Both animals can attack with brute force, have incredible stamina and are equally intelligent – which is perhaps why they don't typically fight! The elephant would use its tusks and feet to attack but the rhino would possibly have the upper hand.
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What animal has no predator?

Animals with no natural predators are called apex predators, because they sit at the top (or apex) of the food chain. The list is indefinite, but it includes lions, grizzly bears, crocodiles, giant constrictor snakes, wolves, sharks, electric eels, giant jellyfish, killer whales, polar bears, and arguably, humans.
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What's bigger T. rex or elephant?

of one very big extinct animal, Tyrannosaurus rex. The most famous of the upright, largely meat-eating dinosaurs called theropods, T. rex would have weighed between 5,000 and 7,000 kilograms (11,000 to 15,500 pounds) with skin and flesh on its huge bones. That's about as much as the largest African elephant.
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What's the largest prehistoric animal?

The largest known land mammal ever was a proboscidean called Palaeoloxodon namadicus which weighed about 22 t (24.3 short tons) and measured about 5.2 m (17.1 ft) tall at the shoulder.
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What is the largest land animal ever?

Dubbed Patagotitan mayorum, the long-necked behemoth lived about 102 million years ago and was likely more than 120 feet long and weighed 69 tons, or about the same as 12 African elephants (the current largest land dweller).
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