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Record	Animal	Scientific name	Length	Weight	Diet Type
Biggest animal that ever lived	Argentinosaurus (a dinosaur)	Argentinosaurus huinculensis	35+m	730,000 kg	herbivore
Biggest living animal	blue whale	Balaenoptera musculus	33.4m	190,000+ kg	herbivore
Biggest land animal	African bush elephant	Loxodonta africana	10.7m	12,700 kg	herbivore
Tallest land animal	giraffe	Giraffa camelopardalis	5.8m	2,000 kg	herbivore
Biggest reptile	saltwater crocodile	Crocodylus porosus	6.3m	1,360 kg	carnivore
Biggest living bird	ostrich	Struthio camelus	2.8m	156 kg	omnivore
Biggest spider	Goliath birdeater	Heteropoda maxima	0.30m	0.15 kg	carnivore
Biggest insect	Goliath beetle	Goliathus goliatus + G. regius	0.115m	0.1 kg	herbivore
Biggest butterfly	Queen Alexandra's birdwing	Ornithoptera alexandrae	0.08m	0.012 kg	herbivore

1. What is the biggest animal alive today? _____________________________________________

2. What animal was the biggest that ever lived? ________________________________________

3. What is the biggest insect? ________________________________________________________

4. Which animal in the table can fly? ___________________________________________________

5. What is the scientific name of the biggest living reptile? _____________________________

6. The biggest spider, the __________________________________, has a leg span of about 1 foot.

7. The average car weighs about 1800 kg. Which animal weighs about as much as a car?

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8. A school bus is 11m long. Which animal is about this long? ____________________________

9. A 10-story building is about 30m tall. Which animals are/were as long as a 10-story building?

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10. Are most of the biggest animals herbivores (plant-eaters) or carnivores (meat-eaters)?

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