What is the biggest shark ever caught?
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The largest shark ever caught was a whale shark harpooned off of Pakistan in 1949 and was reported to 23' in girth and weigh 15.5 tons (31,000 lbs.).
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"Largest" is usually based on the overall mass of the animal, not just the length. While anacondas can get considerably longer than crocodiles, they aren't nearly as massive.
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Probably a male orca somewhere, there was a gray whale calf kept for a while recovering from a stranding , but I don't know whether it attained a larger size than a male orca before it was returned to the wild. Blue whales are the only whales that reach 30m and 120 t and they have never been kept in captivity
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no sharks are saltwater fish however sturgeon kinda look like sharks grow very large too
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have to go with the 59' whale shark
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The Blue Whale, Balaenoptera musculus, is the largest mammal living today. It is also the largest mammal to have ever lived. In fact the Blue whale is the largest animal ever to have lived on the planet as far as we know; bigger by far than ever the largest Dinosaur. The longest Blue Whale ever measured was a female, 33.58 m or 110ft long. The heaviest weighed over 190 tonnes. We haven't actually got a set of weighing scales big enough so weights are estimated from the cut up remains.\n\nThe largest animal on land at the moment on this planet is a mammal; the bull African Elephant. The largest specimen recorded stood around 3.96 m or 13ft at the shoulder and weighed over 12 tonnes.
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The largest elephant on record was an adult male African elephant. It weighed about 24,000 pounds (10,886 kilograms) and was 13 feet (3.96 meters) tall at the shoulder! Most elephants don't get that large, but African elephants grow larger than Asian elephants.\n\nHope that helped!
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Well, there are many fish known as Moonfish.\n\nIf you're referring to the huge species Mola mola, also known as "sunfish" (the one in this picture http://www.mumm.ac.be/Assets/Pages/Strandings/sunfish.JPG ), the maximum recorded weight is 2,300 kg!!\n\nCheck the reference at Fishbase, a comprehensive and well documented fish information site:\nhttp://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=1732\n\nAnother large moonfish is Selene setapinnis (this one http://fishanatomy.net/webpages/fish/moonfish/Large/lookdown002.jpg ). \nFor this species, max recorded weight is 4,600 g. (species summary http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=378 ).\n\nAnd yet another large sunfish is Lampris guttatus, also known as "opah" (the one here http://konadeepsea.com/charters/photos/opah.jpg )\nthe max. recorded weight is 270 kg\n(reference http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=1072 )\n\nHope this helps. Let me know if it's none of the abovementioned species (I'll check back).\nYou can use the scientific names to look for more reliable information :-)
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The largest known insect is the Goliath beetle, (Goliathus druryi).  It can grow up to 8 inches long and weighs as much as a small bird.\n\nand the longest is The Giant Australian stick insect (Exatosoma tiaratum), measuring in at 13 inches, is the longest known insect.
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There is a limit to proof.  The family of sharks.  There are\n    hammerhead sharks that have this distinction due to being\n   an excessively large and stupid pod.  A pod reported in the \n   Congo islands mid atlantic is said to eat full size elephant\n   seal and shed their eyeballs quite often.  Many white shark\n   species are truly dangerous and reach 30 feet long.  This is\n   the actual reported animal of most dangerous being it is  \n    tested by sonar as having the lowest IQ and the largest menu.
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The megamouth shark was discovered in the 1970's. It's a fliter-feeder like the basking shark but in deeper waters. It's a black shark and pretty big.\n\nThe port jackson shark and the goblin shark I believe are newer than most. The goblin shark has like a horn coming out of his snout like a swordfish. These sharks are also quite large as far as sharks go anything over 6 feet is generally "big" since the majority of species of sharks are under 6 feet.\n\nThere are about 350 known species but scientists estimate there are about 550 species out there with 200 to go.
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What do you mean by largest? Do you mean biggest weight or biggest length?\n\n**The heaviest snake in the world is the anaconda. They can weigh more then 500 pounds!\n\n**The longest snake in the world is the python. They can get to be about 33 feet!
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My largest was a 12-inch bass of some sort in Jesup, GA!\n\nThat's hilarious both of our fish were in GA, and I don't even live there!
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The longest rattlesnake, officially recorded, was an Eastern Diamondback rattlesnake that was 8 feet, one inch in length. This is the largest of the rattlesnake species.
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The Blue Whale is the largest mammal (typical length of 70-80 ft.) w/ a record of 106 ft.
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WHALE SHARK:\n\nbiggest shark and biggest fish \n\nit isn't a whale (whales are mammals, not fish) \n\ngrow to 45 feet long and 30,000 pounds, but average about 25 feet long \n\nfilters plankton from the water using "gill rakers" \n\nBASKING SHARK:\n\nsecond largest shark (about 30 feet long and 8,000 pounds) \n\nfilters plankton from the water using "gill rakers"\n\n\nGREAT WHITE SHARK:  \nThird largest shark on average\n\nmore attacks on people than any other type. \n\naverages 12 feet long and 3,000 pounds. \n\nunlike most sharks, it can lift its head out of the water.
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The largest carnivorous dinosaus was the Spinosaurus aegypticus (remember the one with sails on its back in Jurassic Park III?). It is estimated to have been 16-18 metres long and 6 metres tall at the hips and would've probably weighed somewhere around 9 tons.\n\nRecently, a theropod dinosaur larger than t-rex was discovered, though it wasn't as big as Spinosaurus.\n\nThe largest confirmed dinosaur of all times is a sauropod named Supersaurus(about 35 metres long) though there are reports that a species of sauropd - Amphicoelias is longer than fifty metres.