what is the largest fresh water fish in the world?
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As far as I know, the Giant Mekong Catfish mentioned already holds the current record for largest living fresh water fish.\n\nOther giants of the fresh water realm include the South American giant arapaima (Arapaima gigas), or pirarucu.  There used to be specimens of this giant fish up to 15 feet long and several hundred kilos in weight, but they have been fished out, and individuals over 8 feet in length are very rare now.\n\nThe beluga sturgeon (Huso huso) of Russia at one time may have outweighed even the Mekong catfish.  Archaeological excavations of fish caught in the 14th century show that as many as one fifth of the beluga sturgeon caught back then were between 4 and 6 meters in length (12 to 18 feet).  The largest catch recorded was an individual 6 meters long and 3200 kg (7000 lbs).  Other evidence indicates that historically, this species could actually reach 10 meters (30 feet) in length!  Sadly, overfishing and other factors have reduced the numbers and average size of this slow-growing fish, and most of them now only reach 2 meters or less in size.
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From Link 1 :\n\nThe largest living insect species, by virtue of having the greatest visible body mass and probably weight, are the giant scarabs, Goliathus goliatus, Goliathus regius, Megasoma elephas, Megasoma actaeon, and the immense cerambycid, Titanus giganteus. No clear winner can be declared on the basis of objective data, the candidates being nearly equal in this regard, but a visual comparison of all of them, side by side and scaled to maximum known size, may convince one otherwise. The heaviest weight reliably reported for any insect is 71 grams for the protected giant weta, Deinacrida heteracantha, of New Zealand.\n\n\nFrom Link 2 :\n\nThe Heaviest Insect: A Goliath Beetle from tropical Africa, weights in at 3 1/2 ounces.\n \nThe Heaviest Water Insect: The Giant Water Bug of South America, tips the scales at nearly two ounces.
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Well, the second coelacanth species, Latimeria menadoensis, was discovered in 1997.\nIt is large, and it's also significant because it belongs to a very old group (one of the "living fossils").\n\nThe megamouth shark (Megachasma pelagios) is another really large fish that was recently discovered (1976). Only about 25 specimens are known.
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Blue whale. \nScientific name: Balaenoptera musculus.\nSize:30 metres (100 feet) in length. \nWeight:140 tonnes or more. \nIt is believed to be the largest animal ever to have lived.
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By considerable measure, the largest known animal on Earth is the blue whale. Mature blue whales can measure anywhere from 75 feet (23 m) to 100 feet (30.5 m) from head to tail, and can weigh as much as 150 tons (136 metric tons). That's as long as an 8- to 10-story building and as heavy as about 112 adult male giraffes! These days, most adult blue whales are only 75 to 80 feet long; whalers hunted down most of the super giants. Female blue whales generally weigh more than the males. The largest blue whale to date is a female that weighed 389,760 pounds (176,792 kg). \n\n blue whale's head is so wide that an entire professional football team -- about 50 people -- could stand on its tongue. Its heart is as big as a small car, and its arteries are wide enough that you could climb through them. Even baby blue whales dwarf most animals. At birth, a blue whale calf is about 25 feet (7.6 m) long and weighs more than an elephant. And they do grow up fast: During the first 7 months of its life, a blue whale drinks approximately 100 gallons (379 liters) of its mother's milk per day, putting on as much as 200 pounds (91 kg) every 24 hours. An adult blue whale can eat more than 4 tons (3.6 metric tons) of krill, a tiny shrimp-like creature, every day. \n\nThis puts blue whales well above any known land mammal in terms of size. Most people believe that the largest animals to ever exist on Earth were the dinosaurs. However, one of the largest land dinosaurs, the sauropod Argentinosaurus, weighed only about 180,000 pounds (81,647 kg). That's little more than half the size of an adult blue whale. It makes a lot of sense that the world's largest animal would be a sea creature. Land animals have to support their own weight, whereas sea creatures get some help from the water.
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Largest Land Animal: African bush elephant (13 feet high, 8 tons) \n\nMore largest animals at:\n\nhttp://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/explore/animals2.html
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ANY KIND OF ANIMAL WITH GILLS, SHARKS, FISH, ETC. I GUESS..
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A Bass is a type fresh water sport fish.\nThere are two main types, Large Mouth and Small Mouth.\nLarge mouth Bass can grow to be fairly large in size and as their name suggest they can have a mouth large enough to put a baseball in., They eat other fish and frogs\nThey are known to be diffacult to catch bacause they live in areas with alot of vegitation.
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The Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias), also known as White Pointer, White Shark, White Death, or Amaletz, is an exceptionally large lamniform shark found in coastal surface waters in all major oceans. Reaching lengths of about 6 meters (20 feet) and weighing almost 2,000 kilograms (4,000 pounds), the Great White is the world's largest predatory fish. They are the only known surviving species of their genus, Carcharodon. The Great White Shark has a robust large conical-shaped snout. It has almost the same size upper and lower lobes on the tail fin (like most mackerel shark, but unlike most other sharks). It is pale to dark gray and has a white belly.
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The largest largemouth bass caught weighed 22 pounds, 4 ounces in Georgia in 1932. This is one of the oldest and most revered records in all of game fishing.
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Yes, 5 specific species live in fresh water, they are usually named after the river they swim in such as the Amazon, the Yangzi Jiang, or the Ganges.\n\neven you can check this web site for more details - \nhttp://www.thedolphinplace.com/QandA.html#2
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Very defintitely fresh water.
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Largest: Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus)\nSmallest: Bumblebee bats (Craseonycteridae)
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The largest extant organism is the honey mushroom which can spread 2,200 acres (1,665 football fields) underground.  The second largest living organism is General Sherman, a giant sequoia. It's 272ft tall, has a circumference of 109ft at its base, and weighs nearly 1,400lb.
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The blue whale. It has been dubbed the largest animal that has ever lived on Earth; it bigger than even the biggest dinosaurs. It is on average between 80 and 100 ft. long. Females are bigger than males. The largest ever recorded when measurements were accepted world wide was 102ft. But befor there was standard world wide measurement, whaler claimed to have recorded a 108 foot blue whale, and a 110 foot blue whale; but scientist aren't sure how accurate those last two measerments are.\nThe baby is aslo the largest baby in the world.
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look up Bay of Fundy.largest tide in the world.I think 26 ft
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Researchers have found one of the smallest known fish on record in the peat swamps of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. \n\nIndividuals of the Paedocypris genus can be just 7.9mm long at maturity, scientists write in a journal published by the UK's Royal Society. \n\nBut they warn long-term prospects for the fish are poor, because of rapid destruction of Indonesian peat swamps. \n\nThe fish have to survive in pools of acid water in a tropical forest swamp.\n\nThe new fish was discovered by Maurice Kottelat (from Switzerland) and Tan Heok Hui from the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research in Singapore, while working with colleagues from Indonesia and with Kai-Erik Witte from the Max Planck Institute in Germany. \n\nRalf Britz helped analyse the animal's skeleton and the complex structure of the pelvic fin.\n\nFor more information about the Paedocypris genus check this site...\n\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4645708.stm