The biggest crocodiles

Combed crocodile

Of the living reptiles, the largest is a combed crocodile. They live in lagoons, estuaries, swamps.

There are individuals up to seven meters long and weighing up to two tons. A common occurrence is five-meter combed crocodiles. They say that earlier they found cannibal crocodiles ten and a half meters long.

Nile crocodile

Large size reaches the Nile crocodile. Its length is from two to five and a half meters. According to some reports, ten-meter specimens came across. The record length of the alligator living on the American continent is 5.8 meters. Weight - over a ton.

The biggest snakes

The giant anaconda and net python claim the title of the largest snake on the planet. Anaconda boa lives in the Amazon. An anaconda was found and measured, which reached 7.5 meters and weighed 250 kilograms. There are many reports of anacondas and large sizes - up to 11 meters. But this is unconfirmed data ..

Reticulated python, found in India and Southeast Asia, can be 9.7 meters long. However, he is inferior in weight. Both python and anaconda are non-poisonous snakes. Of the poisonous snakes, the largest is the king cobra. The length of these reptiles is 3-4 meters. In 1937, an individual was caught with a length of 5.71 meters.

The biggest lizards

The largest lizard is considered a Komodo lizard. He is also called the dragon of Komodo Island.It can reach three meters and weigh 120 kilograms. Deer hunts. The largest turtle is the leathery sea. Sometimes there are turtles two and a half meters long and weighing 900 kilograms.

The biggest dinosaurs

Fossil reptiles are striking in their size. Almost all of them disappeared from the face of the earth about 65 million years ago, as a result of a natural disaster. The tortoise Archelon, a relative of modern sea turtles, lived in the Cretaceous period.

Its length reached 4.6 meters, weight - up to 2.2 tons, fins span - up to five meters.

Ichthyosaur

Another giant fossil reptile that lived in the sea is the ichthyosaurus.

Its length was approaching 24 meters. He had huge eyes. Ichthyosaurus developed a speed of up to 40 km per hour. This is the largest marine reptile in history.

The largest flying reptile is pteranodon, one of the varieties of pterodactyls. The wingspan was 15.5 meters! Pteranodon lived in the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.

The predator tyrannosaurus reached a length of more than 12 meters, and a height of 4 meters. He weighed, according to recent calculations, 9 tons. This reptile is well known from the movie Jurassic Park, in which it brings indescribable horror to everyone. But the largest land predator of all time was apparently a fossil alligator. His remains date back to 8 million years. It was 12 meters long and weighed 18 tons.

Herbivorous dinosaurs possessed colossal sizes. The diplodocus was 27 meters long. He weighed from 20 to 80 tons. Full diplodocus skeletons found. The brachiosaurus was not much inferior to him in size.Its length was 25 meters, height - 13 meters, weight - 36 tons.

Some dinosaurs are known only for a few fragments of the skeleton. Therefore, their size and even the very fact of existence remain the subject of scientific debate. Among them there are real giants. So, the super-saur supposedly reached 34 meters in length and weighed forty tons.

Mamenchisaurus was 35 meters long. Of these, 15 meters fell on the neck. This is the animal with the largest neck in history. The length of the amphicelia ranged from 40 to 62 meters, the weight was 140 tons! It’s hard to imagine such a monster. This is the largest creature that has ever lived on earth.