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What was the largest living creature of the twentieth century?<br/>

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E. Austin

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Answered Feb 19, 2021

The largest creature of the twentieth century is the blue whale. This creature with the botanical name “Balaenoptera musculus” can be found in the sea, and it has been discovered to be the largest creature existing therein. This is not just only the largest animal in the sea, but also the largest animal to have existed on the planet earth in this twentieth century.

The size of a fully grown blue whale is found to be at least twice that of a dinosaur that has ever existed on the earth. This creature has the ability to grow to its largest weight of 400,000lbs (200 tons), and length of 108 feet (33 meters). The bigness of each part of this creature is another thing that would marvel at you. Did you know that a blue whale’s arteries measure about 10 inches in width, and its tongue alone weighs up to 3 tons?

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J. Shatner

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Answered Feb 18, 2021

The largest animal is the blue whale at about 98 feet in length and 220 tons. When a baby blue whale is born, they weigh up to three tons and measure about 25 feet. After that, they will gain about two hundred pounds a day for the first year. They can grow up to up to one hundred feet and weigh up to two hundred tons.

Their hearts and other parts of the body are rather large, and the spray from their blowhole is also impressive. During the twentieth century, the whaling industry was put into jeopardy by whale hunters. In 1966 that the International Whaling Commission banned the hunting of blue whales. The biggest land animal is the African bush elephant, which can be up to twenty-four feet, and weigh in at eleven tons.

Their trunks alone can lift objects of more than four hundred pounds. African bush elephants are herbivores and consume roughly three hundred and fifty pounds of vegetation daily. Out of all the species, they are pregnant the longest. The females give birth to their babies after twenty- two months of gestation. These beautiful creatures have also been targeted, and they are now considered an endangered species.

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C. Reyes

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Answered Feb 12, 2021

The blue whale is known to be the largest living creature in the twentieth century right now. If you would check history, you will also notice that they are still considered to be the largest creatures that have lived on earth from the time that people have started to learn more.

According to some researches, they have only started to become the biggest creatures on earth about 3 million years ago. There were some changes that have occurred because of the distribution of the food that people need in the ocean at that time. They can grow to more than 29 meters in length.

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Alfred Hook

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Answered Sep 10, 2018

Blue Whale
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