Thursday 16 June 2011

Smallest Giant / Biggest Midget

Largest animal? Smallest insect? You see that everyday! How about the smallest largest animal and the biggest smallest animal? O.o





The family of the biggest animal ever (Blue whale), Cetaceans, have the smallest animal of the Hector's Dolphin who grows to less than 5 feet long
(Awww look at that picture of the cute little smiling dolphin)
You'll have to look carefully to see the dolphin though

Sadly for these cute dolphins, one of their subspecies are one of the most endangered species in the world, that's the Maui's dolphins with only 110 individuals left. Isn't that sad :(


The family of the smallest non-microorganisms (Insects) ever are the goliath beetle who grows up to 11 centimeters. Imagine a beetle THAT big, FLYING at your face. A fun trivia about this beetle is that the adults are actually only half  he weight of their larvas. Talk about big babies

Not only that, goliath beetles are also considered the strongest animal ever. Why you say? That's because the cay carry 850 times their own weight

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