All things bright and beautiful,

          All creatures great and small,

         All things wise and wonderful,

         The Lord God made them all.

                         - Cecil Frances Alexander

Gigantopithecus blacki was a giant ape that inhabited densely forested environment of Southeast Asia during the Pleistocene epoch.A two-million-year-old fossil of an ape tooth is evidence of the largest ape that ever lived. The Gigantopithecus blacki is a distant cousin of the orangutan.Fossils indicate it stood as high as 10 feet and weighed up to 1,100 pounds.

LARGEST APE IN HISTORY

Scientists in the US have identified the bones of the as the largest flying bird ever found. Pelagornis

Sandersi lived about 25 million years ago. The first fossils – a skull plus some wing and leg bones – were found in Charleston, South Carolina. The ancient seabird is said to have a wingspan of at aleast 21 feet

LARGEST BIRD TO HAVE EVER FLOWN

    LARGEST LAND ANIMAL EVER 

The largest land animal ever found is the Argentinosaurus. 

Argentinosaurus is a genus of giant sauropoddinsaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Argentina.

It weighed 70000kg and grew up t 35m in length.

Thhe animal lived nearly 90 million years ago.

A group of animals called arthropods includes insects, spiders and crabs. 

The largest ever was a sea scorpion called Jaekelopterus which could grow to 2.5m long.

Although called a 'sea' scorpion, the 400-million-year-old beast probably terrorized lakes and rivers, and rarely, if ever, ventured into the oceans.

They lived about 444 to 416 million years ago in North America.

LARGEST ARTHROPOD EVER

    LARGEST LAND MAMMAL 

Stretching over 26 feet long, and said to weight as much as 5 elephants, Paraceratherium has traditionally been regarded as the largest mammal ever to roam on land.

Its remains have been found across Eurasia between

China and the Balkans

It was related to the modern rhinoceros and used to eat the leaves of tall trees

LARGEST LIVING ANIMAL ON THE PLANET

Weighing as much as 200 tons, the Blue Whale is the largest animal on the planet.They are bigger than even the largest of the dinosaurs. 

They can grow to be as large as a jumbo jet!It has a heart the size of a Volkswagen Beetle. 

It has the largest heart of any other living animal.They are also the loudest animals on earth, even louder than a Jet Engine.

LARGEST LIVING LAND ANIMAL

African elephants are currently the largest animals on land. 

Their herds wander through 37 countries in Africa.They are easily recognized by their trunk that is used for communication and handling objects. And their large ears allow them to radiate excess heat. hey can grow up to 8.2 to 13 feet in height.

They have a similar life-span to humans and can live to be 70 years old.

BIGGEST LIVING BIRD 

The Ostrich is the tallest and heaviest bird on the planet.

Males can reach 9 feet tall and weigh roughly 280 pounds.

Though they cannot fly, ostriches are fleet, strong runners.Their powerful, long legs can cover 10 to 16 feet in a single stride.

They live in Africa and have the largest eyes of any land animal - each eye is 5cm wide.