Are whales the largest animals? What creatures resemble fish and dragons?

Updated on science 2024-07-19
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  1. Anonymous users2024-02-13

    When it comes to the largest creature on earth, people will think of the blue whale, which is more than 33 meters long and weighs more than 190 tons, and just one tongue of the blue whale weighs 2,000 kilograms, and their heart is worth a small car.

    The walls of the aorta are thick enough for an adult to swim in, and blue whales eat so much that they can eat 4,000 to 8,000 kilograms of krill at a time.

    However, the blue whale is only the largest animal in existence, and in ancient times, it was more exaggerated than the size of the blue whale, and in addition to the dinosaurs, ichthyosaurs are a good example.

    The word ichthyosaur originated from the Greek word and is a combination of the lizard and the fish, while in appearance, the ichthyosaur is closer to the large marine reptile between the fish and the dolphin, which lived in the Mesozoic era.

    It is worth mentioning that ichthyosaurs appeared slightly earlier than dinosaurs, first appearing hundreds of millions of years ago, that is, when ichthyosaurs were still active in the sea, dinosaurs were not yet born.

    Scientists speculate that ichthyosaurs were undetermined terrestrial reptiles from the Triassic period and gradually evolved back to live in the ocean, similar to whales and dolphins, and that ichthyosaurs were widely distributed in all corners of the ocean during the Jurassic period, and it was not until after the Cretaceous period that ichthyosaurs were slowly replaced by plesiosaurs as the tallest aquatic carnivores.

    In 1699, the earliest fragments of ichthyosaur fossils were found in Wales, and in 1708 the spine of ichthyosaurs was discovered, and it was not until 1811 that the first relatively complete ichthyosaur fossils were found in Lem Regisbai, known as the "Jurassic Coast".

    The head of the ichthyosaur was small, but it was very large, and they had button-like teeth in their mouths, and the number of teeth was about 200 or more, which was <>

    They feed on the mollusks of the ocean, and the sharp and powerful teeth of the ichthyosaur can instantly break the shell of the mollusk and swallow it into the stomach along with the tender meat.

    The individual of the brachycephalic ichthyosaur is generally about 10 to 14 meters, but compared with the true ichthyosaur in the ichthyosaur family, the brachycephalic ichthyosaur can be described as "a small witch".

    The fact that the eyes of the euichthyosaurus have a structure called scleral rings to protect the eyes, which indicates that the euichthyosaurs had strong eyesight, and that they also had extremely keen hearing, and that this monster with a length of more than 23 meters had few natural predators in the ocean.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-12

    Among the whales, the blue whale is the largest living animal on Earth, with a body length of more than 33 meters, which is truly "huge". In ancient times, there was a creature called an ichthyosaur.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-11

    The blue whale is the largest animal in existence. The creatures that resemble fish and dragons are ichthyosaurs in ancient times. The word ichthyosaur originated from the Greek language, and in appearance, ichthyosaurs were closer to large marine reptiles between fish and dolphins, which lived during the Mesozoic era.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-10

    Whales are indeed the largest known animals, and no one in the world has ever seen a dragon in its true form, so there are no creatures that resemble fish and dragons.

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-09

    Whales are the largest animals ever discovered. The closest thing to a fish-like creature and a dragon-like creature is probably the ichthyosaur, which lived in the Triassic period.

  6. Anonymous users2024-02-08

    The whale is the largest animal at present, and the creature that resembles a fish and a dragon is called an ichthyosaur, which is relatively large, but it is now extinct.

  7. Anonymous users2024-02-07

    Some sauropod dinosaurs are huge, up to 30 60 meters in length, and can weigh up to 50 150 tons, such as Ruyang Yellow River Giant Dragon, ** Dragon, Pultasaurus, Argentinosaurus, Fragile Diplosaurus, etc., and the Brachiosaurus, Diplodocus and Titanosaurus in the dinosaurs are terrestrial animals with extremely large body size.

  8. Anonymous users2024-02-06

    At present, the largest animal on the earth is the blue whale, which can reach more than 30 meters in length and weigh more than 150 tons, and some biologists believe that the maximum weight of the blue whale can reach 200 tons.

  9. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    Dinosaurs.

    The largest dinosaur, everyone will definitely think of the famous fragile double-chambered dragon. Although the fossils found have been lost, it is believed that the super-dragon, which is nearly 60 meters long and weighs 120 tons, is real.

  10. Anonymous users2024-02-04

    Bigger creatures than whales are: elephants. It seems like there's nothing else!

  11. Anonymous users2024-02-03

    According to the report, the largest creature on the seafloor should be the lion's mane jellyfish (Cyanea capillata), followed by the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) and the sperm whale (physeter macrocephalus).

  12. Anonymous users2024-02-02

    The largest of the blue whales is the blue whale. The blue whale (scientific name: balaenopteramusculus) is a marine mammal belonging to the suborder Baleen Whales.

    There are four subspecies. The blue whale is considered to be the largest animal known to have ever survived on Earth, reaching up to 33 meters long and weighing up to 200 tons.

  13. Anonymous users2024-02-01

    Carnivores at the top of the food chain, such as lions, leopards, wolves, and wild dogs, are in a hostile relationship with herbivores such as wildebeest and zebra.

    And the relationship between the rhinoceros and the hornbill, the honey guide and the honey irrigation, is a partnership.

    For details, you can take a look at "Animal World".

  14. Anonymous users2024-01-31

    As of October 2020, there has been no strong evidence of a creature larger than a whale in the deep sea, with the blue whale being the largest of the living creatures.

    Blue whales can reach up to 33 meters long and weigh up to 181 tons, making them considered the largest known animals to ever survive on Earth.

    The blue whale is not only the largest cetacean, but also the largest living animal, by far the largest mammal. It is generally 2,200-3,300 cm long and weighs 150,000-180,000 kg, that is, it weighs as much as 25 African elephants and 2,000-3,000 people combined.

    Blue whales feed mainly on small crustaceans (e.g. krill) and small fish, sometimes squid. Blue whales usually feed at depths of more than 100 meters during the day and come to the surface at night. It is distributed in all four oceans.

  15. Anonymous users2024-01-30

    There are no super-giant creatures in the deep sea that are larger than whales.

    At present, the largest animal on the planet is the blue whale in the ocean, the longest blue whale has been found to be more than 30 meters and weigh 180 tons. In the history of earth biology, the sea overlord Canglong and Megalodon are inferior to the blue whale in terms of size.

  16. Anonymous users2024-01-29

    The blue whale is the largest animal in the world and has a blue-gray color all over its body. The largest blue whale catch was in 1904 near the Falkland Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. This blue whale is meters long and weighs 195 tons, which is equivalent to the weight of 35 elephants.

    Its tongue weighs about 3 tons, its heart weighs 700 kilograms, its lungs weigh 1,500 kilograms, its blood weighs about 8 tons 9 tons, and its intestines are half a mile long. Such a large body can only live in the vast ocean.

    The blue whale is the number one giant beast on the planet, and it can be called the "king" of beasts. The blue whale is also a unique strongman. A large blue whale has a power of up to 1700 horsepower, which can rival the power of a locomotive.

    It can tow an 800 hp boat and can run for hours at 4 knots to 7 knots even when the boat is reversed. Blue whales are also fast swimming, reaching up to 15 nautical miles per hour. The blue whale has a flat, wide horizontal tail fin, which is the driving force behind its progress, as well as an undulating elevator.

    The two flippers, which evolved from the forelimbs, maintain the balance of the body and assist in changing directions, which makes its movements both agile and smooth.

  17. Anonymous users2024-01-28

    Whales are mammals. Whales are divided into two categories, one is baleen whales and the other is toothed whales. Whales belong to the phylum Chordates, subphylum vertebrates, mammals, and eumatria, which contain about 98 species of viviparous mammals living in oceans and rivers.

    There are more than 30 species in China's waters. All species of whales inhabit the ocean, with the exception of a few that live in freshwater.

    The definition of the whale itself is vague, and the whale can encompass all cetaceans, as well as specific families of cetaceans. All dolphins are also included in the whales. There are two main species of whales:

    Baleen whales and toothed whales. Baleen whales are small but huge, with the smallest known species being over 6 meters long, and the largest animal, the blue whale, is also a baleen whale. However, the size of toothed cetaceans varies greatly, with the smallest species only about 30 cm in length and the largest sperm whale more than 20 meters long.

    Whales do not belong to the class of fish, but to the class of mammals.

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