Meet Hercules, the 922-pound liger. Hercules is a hybrid offspring from a male lion and a female tiger. Ligers enjoy swimming like tigers and are sociable like lions. Hercules lives at the Myrtle Beach Safari wildlife preserve home. He measures in at 131 inches long and 39 inches tall at the shoulder.
Despite his fierce appearance, he still enjoys feeding on a bottle by his keepers and likes to play like a kitten despite being over 100 times the average weight of a house cat. Ligers are much larger than pure-bred tigers and lions and can grow to twice the size.
Gentle Giant
The blue whale may hold the title for being the largest animal on earth, but the whale shark is the world's largest fish. Despite being a shark, it is not thought to be a dangerous animal and actually is known to be playful and let divers catch a ride on its back.
They generally live in tropical waters near the equator and is a filter feeder. They eat mostly plankton but sometimes, they may also eat small squid, small fish, and krill. The largest whale shark to be measured was 41.5 feet in length and weighed 47,000 pounds. Now that is big.
Supersize Spiders
If you have a fear of spiders, you'll want to steer clear of the Goliath Spider. Also known as the bird-eating spider, it is the largest spider in the world in terms of mass and size. They live in the rainforest of South America in which it makes its home in burrows. Females can live from 15 to 25 years, while males only live from 3 to 6 years.
Despite its name, it only sometimes eats adult birds. Instead, it often feasts upon other spiders, amphibians, snakes, and rodents. The Goliath Spider is venomous, although its venom isn’t as strong as you might imagine and isn't much more powerful than the venom from a wasp sting.
Pin Day Kam the Giant Goldfish
It's not every day that one can simply show off their giant goldfish to the world. But that's exactly what Lee Tak-sun can do. This fish breeder from Hong Kong can be seen putting his two-year-old 1.54kg goldfish Pin Day Kam on display for the world to see.
He hopes his beloved fish can seize the world record for the heaviest goldfish on the planet. Lee owns the Sun Sun Fishing Farm at Ngau Tam Mei in Yuen Long. Goldfish are actually very intelligent, despite people assuming the opposite. But Pin Day Kam is never going to steal the headlines for his intelligence, that's for sure.
A Huge 36 Foot Great White Was Pulled Up In South Australia
There's a reason why Great white sharks have their name and that's because they're well, great. They average 20 feet in length and 5,000 pounds but they are often much bigger than that. The biggest great white sharks ever to be taken from the ocean measured 36 and 37 feet long, according to The Guinness Book of World Records.
The biggest of the two was caught in Port Fairy, South Australia in the 1870s, while the smaller monster was caught in the 1930s in New Brunswick, Canada. I can only imagine how big those teeth must have been! Great whites are found in the coastal surface waters of all major oceans. They can live for longer than 70 years. They can swim at speeds over than 56 kilometers per hour and to depths of 1,200 meters.