15 Shockingly Large Creatures That Actually Exist

while giant animals may be the focus of sci-fi movies and children's television they're a big part of our reality and actually not all of them are created in a lab some of them just live to eat and have no interest in exercising isn't that relatable from a record-breaking pig to a whopping giant stingray let's look at 15 shockingly large creatures that actually exist number 15 giant pig how much does your average pig weigh if it's a domestic pig you're normally looking somewhere between 110 and 777 pounds well this ain't no ordinary pig you're looking at 2 100 pounds of pure unfiltered pig the pig was raised by farmer chen changsung in taiwan which is apparently one of the most popular pastimes you can find in rule taiwan according to seong the pig was one of the laziest that he had ever seen eating on so much leftover food that it eventually lost the ability to walk due to its massive weight there's a reality show in there somewhere luckily the pig's unimaginable weight had an extra benefit after 20 men somehow managed to lift the pig onto a truck and drive it to a temple to be blessed the pig was entered into a contest which contest you ask taiwan's fattest pig contest naturally it turns out that this pig won with basically no competition as it was classified as the biggest pig to live on the island for over 200 years that's quite an achievement it's not quite a world record but it's definitely something to put on a resume if pigs had resumes that is before we go on like this video smash the subscribe button and click the notification bell right now or this centipede will crawl on your face when you're sleeping [Music] it's time for the rare topic and we all know these extraordinarily large animals can exist pretty much anywhere on the planet but this one is excessive this photo was apparently captured in indonesia after a group of local farmers finally caught the snake abducting and eating their livestock that snake unsurprisingly was a python and it was easily one of the biggest to ever be seen anywhere in indonesia as you can see from the photo it was so big that they had to use rope to restrain it what do you think is this one of the biggest pythons you've ever seen as always comment down below with the hashtag raretopic and let us know your opinion in relation to what we just showed on screen let's move on to the next one number 14 large stingray it must be a fascinating experience to be one of the national geographic explorers you spend your life traveling the world exploring some of the most unknown and terrifying wilderness hoping you find something that may kill you there it is sounds like a regular day on the internet actually while searching for the world's largest freshwater fish in thailand's ben pekong river a group of national geographic explorers discovered this a heavily pregnant giant stingray giving birth the stingray was estimated to weigh somewhere around 350 pounds or the weight of your average power lifter the explorers naturally turned their cameras on to record the footage of the live birth the first to be caught on camera in history i'm sure the stingray was thrilled about these pesky humans turning up with cameras during her most intimate moment i mean jeez get to know a girl first this was such a groundbreaking find that even the expert explorers were shocked by it i guess the lesson is to do your research before you even try angling in rivers in international countries you may accidentally pull up a 350 pound pregnant stingray number 13. big liger we tend to think of the guinness book of world records as a place for humans who have achieved true greatness perhaps they've scaled everest or kept their eyes open for a long time or just collected a lot of mcdonald's junk but it's greatness nonetheless however animals also have their place in the book of records admittedly none of them have any mcdonald's memorabilia meet hercules a liger and the current record holder for the world's largest living cat well with a name like hercules what did you expect in case you didn't know a liger is a hybrid offspring of a male lion and a female tiger or tiger s and hercules is well he's what the kids would call a unit hercules weighs 922 pounds stands 49 inches tall at the shoulder and measures 131 inches in length or to sum that up in plain english terrifying absolutely terrifying like both of its parents the liker could probably kill you in a second if it really felt like it let's be real he's earned the privilege having won the world record for being the largest cat in the world i bet even his parents would be scared of him number 12 biggest great dane while humans take the honor and do a kind of publicity tour victory lap animals don't seem to care too much about world records they receive them and then they go and have a nap or scratch up your door again anyway this is freddy the world's largest dog freddy is a great dane much like scooby-doo although without all of the talking and the mystery solving and the scooby snacks he's not quite there yet standing at seven feet six inches tall and weighing an almost unfathomable 202 pounds freddy is a behemoth of a dog and he's also an incredibly expensive pet costing his owner some 12 500 pounds in maintenance every year all that considered it's really no surprise that he is the record holder of the world's biggest dock this guy is so huge you could probably confuse him for a very unusual human great danes even at their most ordinary are huge dogs but this is a whole other level of insanity even scooby-doo wasn't seven feet tall which is a shame because if he was he probably could have made even better sandwiches such a waste number 11. giant catfish the catfish is one of the most elusive kinds of marine wildlife on our planet what i'm about to show you is not your average catfish but it is one of the most notable mostly because it's just so unusual that feels like an understatement actually this catfish was caught in northern thailand's mekong river and even the fishers didn't quite know what to make of it measuring almost 9 feet long and weighing an unbelievable 646 pounds [Music] this single fish was nearly as big as a grizzly bear experts quickly announced that this fish may just be the biggest freshwater fish ever recorded and if that's not true i may eat my own shoe and upload it to youtube the plan was to prepare the fish for a specialized breeding program thereby ensuring that descendants of this unique fish would continue to live in the waters unfortunately it died pretty quickly and the villagers ate it but the thought was there a bear-sized catfish sounds like the stuff of nightmares but experts worldwide are now desperate to get one of these unique animals for themselves the iucn has labeled the species critically endangered and many fishers are still looking for another of these record-breaking fish they're going to have serious back problems if they keep pulling these things out of the water number 10 big horse and we're not just talking about any big horse we're talking about big jake the internationally beloved belgian gelding horse that broke a world record just for standing up and to think how many times we stand up in a single day without any recognition i am shocked big jig stands at 20 hands high around 82 inches or so tall which made him the tallest horse in the world when the guinness book of world records measured him in january 2010. that single world record acknowledgement immediately transformed him into a bonafide star with people flocking from all over the world just to see him in person for those who can't travel to wisconsin to see a big horse the guinness world records youtube channel decided to post a video of this huge horse in 2012. that video went on to amass over three and a half million views making him one of the most popular horses on youtube man that's a weird sentence it's hard to think of a better tourist attraction for a wisconsin farm than a really big horse but a really big horse with a world record that's not just a tourist attraction that's basically a global monument number 9. large rabbit how big could the biggest rabbit in the world possibly be the answer is probably not what you'd expect darius is currently the largest rabbit in the world measuring a crazy 4 foot 4 inches long and if you think that's crazy wait until you see his son darius and his son jeff are members of a breed of rabbit known as the continental giant originally bred for meat before they became a popular choice for a house pet they're so big by the way that they have to sleep in dog crates rather than rabbit hutches if darius is the biggest rabbit in the world jeff is lined up to take his place at the time of this video jeff was three feet eight inches long but he still had six months of growing left to do can you imagine how big he was by the time he finished developing there are smaller dogs rabbits are beautiful gentle animals and these giant bunnies are especially fascinating i mean at this size they're basically dogs with big ears and no barking but you can't tell me you don't want one number eight giant cow okay so technically we're not dealing with a cow here this is a steer and not your average deer this is a giant unimaginably large animal that went viral almost immediately after the first photo hit the internet ladies and gentlemen meet knickers knickers is a giant steer in western australia standing at six feet four inches at the shoulder which isn't quite record-breaking but it's close the current world record holder for the largest steer on earth belongs to bellano an italian cow that stands at an insane six feet six inches however in australia you can't get much bigger than knickers i mean this cow weighs a whopping 3080 pounds is it any surprise people couldn't stop talking about this cow in 2018 i mean that's a hell of a lot of beef knickers is probably the most famous cow this world will ever see i mean could you name a more famous one i didn't think so if there's only going to be one a record-breaking world steer is about as good as you could possibly hope for number seven biggest ocean sunfish there's something genuinely frightening about the idea of discovering a fish that's much much bigger than you but that's what happened to these portuguese divers who were out to document a particularly big ocean sunfish the world's largest bony fish these fish are among the rarest species out in the world's oceans but these divers happen to find a behemoth right out in the open ocean sunfish are generally not the smallest animals with some measuring up to 15 feet in length while we can't be quite sure how large this one actually was it clearly wasn't afraid of the divers although i guess it's hard to be scared of something that is basically smaller than the size of your arm it's like being afraid of a spider wait okay so i guess that's a bad example the point is this fish was huge and by far the biggest ocean sunfish discovered yet is that good enough it's difficult for even the experts to locate ocean sunfish these fish tend to be extremely primitive preferring to keep to themselves rather than look for underwater paparazzi having seen their size it's kind of a miracle that they're so good at hiding number six giant barrel jellyfish of all the waters in all the world whoever would have expected to find a giant barrel jellyfish off the coast of england against all the odds a biologist and her crew managed to find a colossal barrel jellyfish off the cornwall coast the biologist lizzie dally said that the creature was about as big as her body making this the largest jellyfish species in british waters the average diameter just for context is about 16 inches or half the height of the late vern troyer that's one big jellyfish right you'd be forgiven for thinking this thing could cause instant death with its sting given the jellyfish reputation but actually the sting of the giant barrel jellyfish is pretty harmless although you know you don't exactly want to go sticking your hand on a stinging tentacle just for fun it's highly unlikely that anybody in england will be jellyfish diving anytime soon but it's nice to know that the people of cornwall have the opportunity at least who doesn't want to dive into some absurdly frigid water for the tiny possibility of seeing a giant animal that could potentially sting you that's the british way number five giant or fish the giant dwarf fish is the unicorn of the ocean one of those legendary animals few people have ever seen in person but that absolutely definitely exists this is incredible this is absolutely incredible and now we finally have some evidence of that here is actual footage of one of the ocean's rarest animals the giant dwarf fish can reach up to 55 feet long in the right conditions making this one of the largest bony fish in the ocean and just think many people have only seen these animals when they're already dead or dying on the shore what a waste right well now we're looking at the longest fish ever discovered in our world's oceans and possibly the cause of a great many sea serpent legends according to some experts people in old times frequently confused this animal for the notorious sea serpent which makes a lot of sense i mean a 50 foot long fish in the dark shadowy ocean yikes right now that we've finally got footage of the giant door fish it's only a matter of time before we get actual proof of the unicorn look i will continue living in the hope that this thing exists until i get proof it doesn't number 4. goliath frog as crazy as it is to think about there is such a thing as a giant frog apparently some insects just require a bigger predator and who better than a frog so big it literally has the word goliath in its name the goliath frog also known as the goliath bullfrog or giant slippery frog if you're more of a say what you see kind of guy is the largest living frog anywhere on earth individual specimens can grow up to 13 inches in length and weigh up to 7.2 pounds which is pretty huge for a frog the average weight of a frog by the way is around 0.05 pounds so yeah that's a surprisingly heavy frog that weighs almost as much as a oscar statuette no wonder it's known as a goliath frog unfortunately the population of the goliath frog is falling rapidly due to environmental problems and the animal's popularity in the food and pet trade apparently people are less interested in getting dogs and just want a giant frog to take for walks i'm just kidding people still love dogs number three giant cat it'd be pretty easy for us to cop out on this one by listing some kind of big cat like a tiger or a lion well we're not gonna do that we're bringing you an actually giant domestic cat and you really have to see it to believe it because there's a lot to see goliath is a giant cat around three times the size of your average household kitty he's a big boy that requires a little bit of strength to carry around but i'm sure he's incredibly cuddly in many ways goliath reminds me of garfield although i have no idea if he likes mondays or not i get the feeling he's not a fan of weekdays generally either way you could just imagine a cuddle with goliath would be like hugging the warmest ball of love you could ever find when they found him the staff kept him in the animal sanctuary for a few days before neutering him and finding him a new loving forever home and hopefully that tome gives him all the love that he deserves because you know what he's a beautiful cat that deserves all the lasagna he wants oh wait that's garfield and my point stands number two huge coconut crab do you know that the coconut crab is the largest land dwelling crustacean anywhere on earth a follow-up question did you know what the coconut crab was if you said yes you're either a filthy liar or a devout crab aficionado in which case kudos to you the coconut crab is a fascinating species that moves quickly like to climb palm trees and eat coconuts they're basically the crab equivalent of a millionaire 35 year old tech genius who's retired to some caribbean island because he's had enough of being around the normies you know but enough about me adult coconut crabs can have a leg span of up to 3 feet wide and due to their love of coconuts their pincers have a strength you can't even begin to imagine seriously you put a human bone in there it'll be dust in seconds the spider-like coconut crab is one of the more intriguing animals you can find in a tropical environment i mean a crab climbing a tree what is this little mermaid but on dry land in all seriousness these eight pound crabs will break your bones with their pincers i have no scientific facts to back that up but also i kind of don't want to find out number one massive reticulated python medusa famously had snakes for hair but i think even she would have thought this reticulated python was a little much named after said serpent-headed nightmare medusa is a 25-foot long reticulated python or as some snake phobic people say insert curse word of choice here i don't know who's got who she's so heavy reticulated pythons are generally known as the world's largest snakes but medusa is in a league of her own in 2011 medusa was awarded the guinness world record for the longest snake ever raised in captivity and you can't argue with the fact when it came time for her measurement to be taken this ten-year-old snake required 15 men to hold her at full length just to be sure they could get a proper reading and she's not light medusa weighs a whopping 350 pounds meaning those 15 guys really had to limber up for this i bet they were still sore the next month medusa has been known to eat a whole 40-pound deer with one bite so her owners weren't surprised by her weight those 15 guys though imagine your day consisting of carrying a snake while a guy with a tape measure hurried alongside it's just another day in the life of the guinness world records people which of these absurdly large animals do you think is the coolest let us know in the comments also check out our other cool stuff showing up on screen right now see you next time

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Length: 20min 44sec (1244 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 04 2020