The Tallest Lifeforms Of All Time
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- čas přidán 18. 06. 2024
- If you doubled in size, your weight would be eight times greater. That’s the trouble with growing tall. Gravity’s pull is keeping us all down. But there are a few earthly giants that have fought gravity and won.
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If you doubled in size, your weight would be 8 times greater. That’s the trouble with growing tall. Gravity’s pull is keeping us all down. But there are a few earthly giants that have fought gravity and won.
The key to growing tall is how you use your energy. That’s why the tallest trees outrank any animal on Earth. Because trees spend all their energy on one thing- growing taller than their fellow neighbors. And there are two trees that are the best growers of them all- giant Redwoods and Mountain Ashes. Redwoods are renowned as the tallest life forms on Earth. But some experts think that Mountain Ashes could grow even taller if humans would stop cutting them down. In fact, the tallest Mountain Ash was just 1 meter shorter than the tallest Redwood.
Unlike plants, animals spend energy on all sorts of tasks like eating, walking, and staying warm. So, they can't grow as tall. But it doesn't mean they're small, either. If you measured this African Elephant from shoulder to ground it would actually be taller than a Giraffe! But thanks to their long, strong necks, giraffes are the tallest animals alive.
And if we look at animals throughout Earth’s history, dinosaurs eclipse them all. These towering Sauropods were the biggest of the bunch. In fact, the top 10 list of tallest animals in history? All dinosaurs.
But, what if we looked at the longest lifeforms too? If you balance the longest Saltwater Crocodile on its nose, it would tie the Giraffe! And if we ignore legs, it gets even better! Tip to tail, the Green Anaconda nearly doubles the height of the tallest Giraffe on record.
But these land dwellers have nothing on animals of the deep. Supported by water, sea life can practically ignore gravity. Which means they can grow much larger. Take the Blue Whale for example. It’s the most massive animal of all time. The entire cast of Broadway’s “The Lion King” can fit on its tongue! But it should be careful not to get tangled up in the tentacles of a Lion’s Mane Jellyfish, which makes a Giant Squid look small by comparison. Now, the biggest fish alive is the Whale Shark. And if we look into the past, things get even bigger.
And where do humans fit into all this? Somewhere near the top, actually. Humans are bigger than 87.6% of mammals on Earth. And the average Dutchman is the tallest of them all. So, there’s no reason to ever feel small again, especially if you’re from the Netherlands.
Fun Fact: The longest lifeform of all time isn’t a plant or animal at all. It’s a Honey Fungus and the biggest one goes on for 3.8 kilometers underneath a forest in Oregon. - Věda a technologie
I’m gonna focus all my energy on growing. Don’t talk to me or you’ll ruin my concentration
*ruins concentration*
Lol
Dont worry I help you *gets a taser*
Ha.
*never stops talking*
The point of making this entire video: be Dutch.
FannomacritaireSuomi i am Dutch
Basicly lol
Ik ben nederlands🤔🤣😏😂😁😌🙃
Lol
Or play basketball like i do
The Dutch species are the tallest of all living organisms on earth.
Lars Hogenkamp rumours say they stretch over 3 kilometers long under oregon.
Sounds gay..
Nope the Dinka and the Tutsi from Africa are.
@Weebdul Husseinidk about that but at least not on average, because their lige expectancy won't be as high.
I think Chineses are more taller, they can be 1.91 meters
Idk how to use my energy to grow
Maybe you have to go to the Netherlabd to become taller
Sleep 8-10 hours a day, stretch each day, and eat lots of fruits and vegetables. If you do this, even if your parents are short, you will be very tall.
You need to level up your stats to get that upgrade
@@carlos-ej3sv I sleep 6-7 hour a day and I'm the tallest in my class
@@prelkat genetics are always the main thing
3:11 she's wearing high heels
IAmLazy lol
O snap
amazing observing skills, get yourself a desk at the local police as an investigator
Lmao 😂
IAmLazy nice eyes u got there 👌
Height in other animals: Survival or death
Height in humans: **Nobody cares go get a job**
Boring
Jonathan Morales I know you are
Height probably matters more in humans than most other animals.
@@MrCmon113 it doesn't
@@lohengramm7798
Well I haven't done a extensive study, but when I go over animals in my head, it's usually as much or less than humans. What's important is that animals also gain advantages from being smaller, while humans do not.
How the hell do I focus my energy to growing tall
golden tortle healthy diet exercise and lots of rest.
Be a Mermaid
Stay still
just think about it, and your job will be done.
Stretch
Dude you messed up big time with those dinosaur heights. Brachiosaurus was probably 30m long but definitively not 30m tall.
Just look at that picture, thats redicilous
Lincoln Turtle, I was also sceptic about that so I checked several websites and according to them, blue whale is believed to be the biggest animal of all time. Not the longest, but certainly most massive.
lincoln actually the blue whale is the biggest.
DABGOD it was frickin diabolical bro, in my country you would get stoned to death for this fake mews
Lincoln Turtle true, newer dinosaurs like pagotiotitan or others. Dinosaurs were the tallest and longest
Now that you counted the tallest lifeforms, how about the ultimate lifeform?
*Dubstep plays in the background*
Caught you before hundreds of likes
Disasteroid nu my mum
Disasteroid
He said ultimate not fattest
Just stop please
Imagine that you're walking normally... Then you see loads of creatures on their nose..
We're trying to be taaall :O
Emeraldz Stuff i actually laughed out loud reading this
Emeraldz Stuff You're, sorry I'm a grammar nerd
RebelThatsARoyal LOL Ok lol I'll edit it now
Is he like that s normal wait is that a blue shale on it nose WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUUUUU
What if crocodiles start walking on 2 legs? We'd have modern day dinosaurs.
There were actually bipedal crocs back in the triassic, and they were larger than any of the carnivorous Dinos of the era.
Bunty Sonawane we do they are now call birds
We have modern day dinosaurs, they're called birds. And crocs aren't dinosaurs.
Some creatures akin to crocodile did | Start at 2:08 | czcams.com/video/oGVFVX6NTLs/video.html
We have chickens
I'm here to feel concious about my height, I'm a 5'3 and it sucks
Edit: I'm 5'4 now and contented
I'm 6'1" and I feel like a short guy
never been so confident to say I'm 5"9'. I feel pretty small so unlucky lads
i'm a 10'3 and it sucks...
5'8 and female. 😭 I'm 12. :/
Agust Daddy my classmates is 5’6 and we are in 6th grade
I have a question ...
Who's the smallest?
A plank length or string length
Or dwarfs or atoms
Edit: How in the world I just got 19+ likes. I have never get that many
Meme Lord711 lol i was about to say that lmao
Meme Lord711 XD
LegendG Playz germs?
Bacteria.
Still smaller than the bite my bestfriend takes from my burger
Toothbrush senpie
I completely misread this comment as I am French and « bite » in French is a synonymous for penis.
Peridot Facet-2f5l 😂😂 😂 😂
So true man so true
I am from india i am 7 years old my name is Akhil
@@justakid7991 Lol Mort de Rire
yayy I'm from the Netherlands!!
may jailer how tall r u
And how tall are you?
I'm dutch 6 feet tall and I feel short af when I walk around at school
Michael Jeuring so even girls are that tall? Because I live in france, I'm 6.2ft and i feel short around boys, but incredibly tall around girls
A SomeBody there are a good amount of girls that are a lot taller than I am
Netherlands us actually below sea level,so they experience more gravity from others.
so they must be shorter.
Snoop Dogg+weed=higher than anyone and anything
I didn't choose the nut life,the nut life chose me but weed is legal in the netherlands and I'm 1.90 :D sooo high
Whatever Snoop Dogg is a fraud. Probably just pretends to get high!
Lal i’m 1.86 and still getting higher
Taller**
Crafted no it's not... Weed is as legal as my friend raping spiders
1:34 The Brachiosaurus was not 30 m tall, it was about 15 m tall. It was 26 to 30 m *long*
burt591 Yep, my bullshit alert was ringing when he said that.
True, sauroposidon was taller than the Brachiosaurus lol
burt591 And it was not the tallest
I was looking for this comment
INDOS11GAMERS Brontosaurus is not a real dinosaur let alone the longest. The longes sauropod is argentinosaurus or patagonititan with 30-35 metres.
I'm glad I didn't watch this yet until now (because I thought I did) so I could enjoy this amazing video :D
“If you double the size your weight increases 8 times.”
Understandable, have a great day.
No dinosaur was that tall. Sauroposeidon was the tallest at 17 - 18 m tall, Brachiosaurus was roughly 15 m tall, and Giraffatitan was 12 m tall.
Frankie K. True but sauro was 18 and we found taller one
Glad u a paleontologist
Someone has to be tbh
I thought Elves were the tallest.
All speedrunners use Altmer
CuriousReason dutch people are elves
You actually made me choke of my cereal XD
Are high elves taller than wood elves, are orcs taller than elves? So many questions, where are the answers?
CuriousReason what the
“Especially if you’re from the Netherlands”
Yeah, haha, rub it in the faces of all of us here under 180cm
Titanaboa?
DID SOMEONE SAY TITANS
@@user-fx6md4gv5i you know there's a Levi in this comment section
Snakes on a plane 😂😂
behemoth (trevor henderson): tiny dots
These types of infographics are so interesting!
So in the end, the less energy you use, the bigger you become. That explains why reptiles managed to grew this big since they don't need to waste energy to keep themselves warm and also it explains why dinosaurs were this big (since the geological era they lived in was hotter than todays era). Thanks for that :D
Wow, very well animated!!!
Trees also have extremely strong wooden bodies that can support their weight. Land animals would have a hard time getting that big because so much the percentage of total mass that’s structural would be too low to hold them up without breaking.
Apparently, there are two type of trees called Mountain-Ash. The one you depicted is the Rowan, only informally called Mountain-Ash. From what I can tell, it doesn't grow very tall. The one you should have depicted is the Eucalyptus Regnans... A Eucalyptus famous for being the second tallest tree.
I would've liked you showing humans next to these things, otherwise it's hard to imagine
All told, two meters is about the length of the elephant’s leg.
Perspective.
Joseph Kobatake same
The snake blew my mind 🤯
Just imagine seeing it in person and stretched out full length 😮
Its titanoboa
I never realized mountain ashes got so big. The soil on the mountains where they grow is so thin I've only ever seen them reach a height of around 10ft
That croc knows how to balance
No everyone is short except me
Thanos Mad Titan *_No Everyone_*
漂白クロロックス No *,* everyone
im just 6'3😔
I'm around 6.3 - 6.4 but I just turned 15
Plk how much in cm? I am 163 cm. (5,4 or so in feet).
Video: *Dutch people are the tallest*
South Sudanese: *How's the weather down there, Dutchman?"*
Officer:HOW HIGH ARE YOU!
Snoop Dogg:no officer its high how are you
If we T pose we can grow to become the tallest species to ever exist, by defying gravity
RICHEY099 I'm intersted
Know what? Ima try it. Anyone with me?
RICHEY099 E
Sauroposeidon is Taller than Brachiosaurus
T. rex King 1011 truue
The video actually got the brachiosaurus size so wrong... It doubled it’s size! Brachiosaurus was around 15.2 meters not 30 at all
I can't believe how such inaccuracy could sneak in completed video. They were around (a bit less, to be fair) 30 meters LONG, not tall. Shame, Insider!
T. rex King 1011 true,the brachiosaurus is the heaviest not the tallest
Ikr
That is true .. I’m 6’1 (186cm) and i felt pretty short in Holland.
Me being a tall person:
*_D O N O T A S K T H E E L A V A T E D O N E_*
This video feels incomplete.
Why the hell is Sauroposeidon that much smaller then the Brachiosaurus. It’s taller then it
I learned something new today 😁
So you are telling me if I lay down and sleep sleep, I’ll grow taller?
What about Gravity falls trees? I mean like their GIGANTIC
*watches how big the universe is* yeah right.. we are so "tall" (not mean but sad)
Lavender Mae universe aint a life form...
EISENWALD Villanueva but each galaxy is one of gods farts
*THE MORE YOU KNOW*
The Nintenbro farts aren't life form either...
EISENWALD Villanueva I never said they were
EISENWALD Villanueva They were both joking. Duh.
I'm Dutch, when I was 14 I was the shortest of my class from both boys and girls, I'm currently 6ft.
Just a correction, the longest saltwater crocodile ever measured was Lolong who was 6.17 m. And that record was made over 6 years ago.
Counting Jellyfish tentacles as a part of the length is like taking a human with their hands up in the air and saying they are 10 feet tall.
True
I'm an Asian living in the Netherlands 😢
somemaster spectate A midget among giants.
oof
Your poor neck :(
somemaster spectate Hey don’t worry. I love Asians
A dwarf among men
Nice video👍
Darn you, why'd you have to remind me that I missed out on my dad's dutch genetics and got the short genes from mom instead. xD
30 meter tall brachiosaurus? Ha, ha ha haa, ha ha ha. Ah hee, hee, aha, hoo di hee, ah ha, ha ha. And I thought my jokes were bad!
Suneish Basu ikr
What? You know my jokes are bad, Mr Dick?
Suneish Basu nah I don't
Suneish Basu it's just these stupid people don't check their information
Relax, I find wrong information fun.
I don't think I can shake apples down from that tree in animal crossing.
Max this comment is underrated
TheoTown profile pic.
Same
Lol
Very good video guys
I'm 6'8" (2.1 meters) and an American with dutch ancestry
1:38. Incorrect. Sauroposeidon was taller than the brachiosaurus. Also they looked different from those doodles, especially the formation of legs.
Slice N’Dice thank you at least I'm not the only one bothered by that
Alex The Titanosaur Emperor Anytime.
Brachiosaurus didn't even exist
Zack Paster Give me at least 5 links to prove it.
I would like to be 8 times heavier because I'm underweight lol
Cody Erlanger, I mean sure your super skinny and should bulk up but you aren't under weight, you are in a healthy weight range.
I wish I could be underweight :( I'm currently overweight, so if I go underweight I'll easily go right to healthy weight.
Ultra G4MING, why aren't you doing anything about it?
Ultra G4MING no, I have a fast metabolism that I can't have a healthy weight. I eat alot but I gained nothing lol
saints FPS Bruh the real question, CAN I?
I was walking down the street yesterday when I saw someone pickpocket a dwarf.
I don’t know how anyone could stoop so low.🤣
I am small and I am always jealous of being bigger, because even though being small is sometimes good too, being tall has one major advantage: automatic respect/ passive defense. Just think about it: would you fight with a small guy, or tall guy ( ignoring actuall strenght and so...).
3:06 when ur dutch and not tall *cries*
Dutchies rule! 😂
I'm from Indonesia(former Dutch colony) . And we're the world's shortest human in average😢
Malvin Pakpahan - Ahh do you think that’s a bad thing tho? I don’t think it is
Bojana Langeler me and my friends made fun of Dutch people they seem big but they have the smallest dick ha
Malvin Pakpahan yeah i'm only 155 cm
They're actually second to the Dinka who average 6'4 for males
Thanks for boosting my self esteem
The tallest tree is
Sequoia sempervirens
The tallest trees in the world are redwoods(Sequoia sempervirens), which tower above the ground in California. These trees can easily reach heights of 300 feet (91 meters). Among the redwoods, a tree named Hyperion dwarfs them all. The tree was discovered in 2006, and is 379.7 feet (115.7 m) tall.Apr 15, 2013
Ayyy does anybody else feel kinda cool when your home is mentioned (oregon)
I'm 11 years old and 6'8 feet tall and I feel very proud to comment here (edit: It's a JOKE guys! Chill out. Don't you hate when there's a video about height, you'll see some proud taller kids in the comment with their height)
You might want to visit the doctor after this though.
Minh Đỗ Lê Thành yes
Pagalele I'm having some serious doubts lol.
You have Gigantism, your gonna die before all of us
You’re lying.
My energy level is gorwing And this is to go even further beyond !!!!!!!?
What I learned from the video: spend all your skill points on height
Yeah, it's honestly always annoyed me that most of the animals that can make us feel tiny are all dead. The animals today just all seem too small. I don't like being on top
pecu alex yeah, it doesn't help to think that your ancestors are responsible, in most cases probably without realizing it. I mean, imagine some big tribe that hunts mammoths for generations, hunting them for food, and hunting some for maybe ritual purposes, and killing ones that get too aggressive, etc., only to wake up one day and realize they've all vanished? That's not something I'd like to be responible for, with any animal.
Gideon Jones
Bigger animals attract human hunters and reproduce slower.
Yah imagine the meat of a dinosaurs that would be hard and worth it for hunting
To small yet outweigh us drastically in most cases.
+Gideon Jones NIIINNNGEENNNNNNNNNN
1:37 that's wrong, Sauroposeidon is bigger than brachiosaurus, not the other way around
muhammad he was talking about length, very misleading
Sauroposeidon was a brachosaurid taller,longer, and wider than brachiosaurus.
Well I mean, Brachiosaurus is a misidentified Giraffititan, so... The comparison is inaccurate anyways, when one doesn't even exist
No, Giraffititan was classified as a second species of Brachiosaurus until 2009. The type Brachiosaurus altithorax is still valid. And Sauroposeidon is a somphospondylid, not a brachiosaurid, but they were bigger (26 feet at the shoulder and 43 feet at the top of the skull, maximum length of 112 feet).
muhammad yepp
The thing with the Lion's mane is it's so unbelievably flimsy in construction that it's quite likely the squid outweighs it.
The Argentinosaurs, the Sauroposeidon are beetwen 20 to 18 meters height. The Brachiosaurus was 13 meters height. And if you want lenght, you should check the Amphicoelias Fragillimus with its 60 aprox. meters long
everyone says dat Dutch people are the tallest people, but i'm only 1.59m 😂😅
There are exceptions.
I'm 1.73m :( and I'm a Dutch male specimen 😅
NightSpook 1.73 is langer dan 1.61 (ben gegroeid in die 3 weken, echt een wonder)
Ondanks dat ik een meisje ben Mr alsnog🤣
The Sudanese are bigger they’re all like 6”4
im 16and only 5' 6" and all my friends are 6ft or taller and same age im still not satisfied😑
zecheriah vassar where do you spend your energy? Play more sports and make sure to keep your estrogen level down and testosterone up. And btw do some research too.
18 and 4'11 all my friends are also 6ft or taller
taha qtr
Hmm weird but estrogen promotes appetite which ....more appetite= more nutrition= grow big and tall
zecheriah vassar im.5'4
Bacteria or virus (if we count them)
You are messing with my megalophobia, especially with the brachiosaurus and the lions mane jelly fish
It really make sense
A video about the extinct Megafauna would be interesting.
The longest known lion's mane jellyfish was 37 meters long not 60.
I got to be honest. With the scaling in metric I can’t really get a good idea of the lengths. Maybe put metric along with imperial is nice too
I love that he just said “A FOREST in Oregon” I would love to know what forest lol
I'M FROM THE NETHERLANDS AND I'M 4 YEARS OLD AND I'M 7 FEET TALL
Alex_Perez_99 I’m a single cell and I’m 43 feet tall.
my smol account ye
IM FROM A DIFFERENT SUPER-CLUSTER IN THE UNIVERSE AND IM 999,999,999,999,999 YEARS OLD AND IM 1.6 x 10^-35 METERS TALL
Shubham Sonsurkar oH nO
my smol account ye don't worry if you are lucky you might live at least up to 60 or more
I am 12 years old and what is this??!
I'm a Dutch male but I'm only 164cm. Which actually makes me feel very small in comparison.
I'm 10cm less lol
Watching this, makes me feel short!
I got excited when Lion King was mentioned 😂❤️
Actually Sauroposeidon is taller than Brachiosaurus
Sammy Sulaiman What about Argentinosaurus?
marianopie98 argentinosaurus aint tall
marianopie98 Argentinosaurus was a bit shorter due to having a horizontal posture but was several times heavier than Sauroposeidon
You mean HIGHER
Too bad I’m from Asia, we short here.
which software you use for editing
The last one blew my mind the most, no offence to all the magnificent beautiful creatures of our world.. but damn! 3.8km of an actual single type of life form?!, that's a whole another world by itself.. makes me wonder if the whole planet designed somehow or connected somehow like this..
how to become tall
Step 1: be dutch
Step 2: done
meme loos Or icelandic
I tried. I'm merely 180cm. Almost everyone my age around me is taller.
Or next to the netherlands
step 3: don't be short
Or be German
Hey Random Guy/Girl
Have Good Day😁
Nice my man
you too buddy!
No,
You have a good day.
@Jerry Gonzales
Transgenders are just Girls changing to Guys or the other way around so they would still count.
@Jerry Gonzales go back to school
At 1:37 I read Sauroposeidon as "sour poseidon" and imagined a grumpy Greek god.
Human can be really tall:
Attack on Titan references
*I live in the Nederlands!*
or
*Ik woon in Nederland!*
I am 1,75m tall and 13 years old (but I'm not super tall, there are children that are taller)
Tim van Duijnhoven I am the same age as you and I am also 1.7 m tall and I don't live in the Nederlands
Jakov Tomcat your just fat
xRetartldGamer X lol you failed. I'm like the skinniest in my class
Jakov Tomcat it was a joke
I live in the Netherlands as well, same age, and 1,6 meters, i am still considered short in my school.
The netherland Small country big man
1:42 When all the dinosaurs walk on, the Sauroposeidon should be towering over all of them
(They were the tallest dinosaurs to ever live but in this scaled photograph they are shown to be smaller compared to other dinosaurs)
I thought you're making a chart or list of tallest life forms
You mean doubled in height? Doubling in height means we grow 8 times the size hence we're 8 times heavier. Doubling in size would only make you double in weight (mass).
Note: to double your size, all you need is a height increase of 26%.
Hm good point
Terence Ting I was going to call you stupid and then I realiser you’re right
Do you realize we are a 3 dimensional being?
Christian Kojongian Yeah but doubling seize means doubling the volume of 3dimensional beings, doubling height means only doubling height
Volume is different i explain
If you were 10 cm height and grow 10 cm more ur skin will be 100cm square more and ur volume will be 1000cm cubic
How are giraffes the tallest animal in the world but whales are wayyyyy taller if they stood up like a human
Jennifer Speagle *LAND * I guess
Blue whale: AM KING
Siphonophore: butt im 600 to 900 meters in size
2:01 TH3 CROC KNOWS HOW TO DO A NOSE STAND. TEACH ME HOW TO DO THAT WITH NO ARMS XD