Animal records
26 world records, each with its own page. Guess them before reading the answer.
- Neurons in the brain and nervous system Animal with the most neurons 257,000,000,000 neurons · African elephant
- World record Deepest recorded dive by a mammal 2,992 m · Cuvier’s beaked whale
- Top speed Fastest animal in a dive 389 km/h · Peregrine falcon
- Top speed Fastest flying insect 98.6 km/h · Austrophlebia costalis
- Top speed Fastest mammal 160 km/h · Mexican free-tailed bat
- Top speed Fastest reptile 40.23 km/h · Perentie
- World record Greatest annual distance covered by a grey wolf 7,247 km · Grey wolf
- Largest known mass Heaviest amphibian 3.3 kg · Goliath frog
- Largest known mass Heaviest animal 190 t · Blue whale
- Largest known mass Heaviest fish 21.5 t · Whale shark
- Largest known mass Heaviest land animal 10.4 t · African bush elephant
- Largest known mass Heaviest living bird 156.8 kg · North African ostrich
- Largest known mass Heaviest reptile 2,000 kg · Saltwater crocodile
- Mass Heaviest snake species 182.8 kg · Burmese python
- Altitude Highest-flying bird 11.3 km · Rüppell's vulture
- World record Longest non-colonial animal (lion's mane jellyfish) 36.6 m · Lion's mane jellyfish
- World record Longest non-stop bird flight 13,560 km · Juvenile bar-tailed godwit 'B6'
- World record Longest recorded dive by a mammal 3 h 42 min · Cuvier's beaked whale
- Length Longest snake species 10.05 m · Reticulated python
- Wingspan Longest wingspan of any living bird 3.7 m · Snowy albatross (Diomedea exulans)
- World record Smallest bat 3.1 cm · Kitti's hog-nosed bat
- World record Smallest extant crocodilian (maximum length) 1.6 m · Cuvier's dwarf caiman
- Length of the smallest adult Smallest fish 6.5 mm · Stout infantfish
- World record Smallest known mite 0.079 mm · Cochlodispus minimus
- World record Smallest known vertebrate (flea toad) 6.45 mm · Brachycephalus pulex
- World record Smallest land snail 0.7 mm · Acmella nana