"study on the specimen later showed its actual weight was , but it only measured in total length as a result of the tentacles' shrinking ""post mortem"". On February 22, 2007, authorities in New Zealand announced the largest known colossal squid had been captured. The specimen weighed and was initially estimated to measure in total length. Fishermen on the vessel ""San Aspiring"", owned by the Sanford Seafood Company, caught the animal in the freezing Antarctic waters of the Ross Sea. It was brought to the surface as it fed on an Antarctic toothfish that had been caught off a long"
"uncertain because only a handful of mature specimens have been recorded. The heaviest known cephalopod, and the largest living invertebrate, is the colossal squid. The largest recorded specimen of this species, caught in the Ross Sea in 2007, weighed . However, its beak is not the largest known from this species; even bigger colossal squid beaks have been recovered from the stomachs of sperm whales, indicating that this species can grow larger still. Nautiluses are the only extant cephalopods with a true external shell; in other groups the shell has been internalised or lost completely. Internal shells include the cuttlebones"
"the longest reported are a male caught in May 1973 and a 7.77 (25.5 ft) female caught in May 1970, both taken off South Africa. Males caught in the western North Pacific and weighed whole on a truck scale averaged between 2.85 and 4.23 metric tons (3.14 and 4.66 short tons) (range: 0.86 to 6.36 metric tons, 0.95 to 7.01 short tons), while females averaged between 1.93 and 3.63 metric tons (2.13 and 4.00 short tons) (range: 0.84 to 8.35 metric tons, 0.93 to 9.20 short tons). At sexual maturity, males and females in the North Atlantic average between and"
"specimens include an immature female taken by trawl off Dronning Maud Land in 1981 ( ML and TL; Ellis, 1998a:147), a specimen caught alive in South Georgian waters in 2005 (estimated TL and weight; [Anonymous], 2005b), and two specimens recovered from sperm whale stomachs between 1956 and 1957 off the South Shetland Islands and South Orkney Islands (reportedly around TL, respectively; Sweeney & Roper, 2001:56; see Korabelnikov, 1959:103 and Yukhov, 1974:62). Beaks recovered from sperm whale stomachs indicate the existence of animals surpassing even the 2007 Ross Sea specimen. That specimen had a lower rostral length (LRL) of and weighed"
"in tow in late 1923. His accounts of the trip would eventually be published as ""Whaling in the Frozen South"". Named for the Antarctica explorer James Clark Ross, the ""Ross"" was the largest whale factory ship in the world, weighing in at 12,000 tons. She was headed for the southern Ross Sea, the last whale stronghold left. Villiers writes: ""We had caught 228, most of them blues, the biggest over 100 feet long. These yielded 17,000 barrels of oil; we had hoped for at least 40,000, with luck 60,000."" Villiers' passage on board the ""Herzogin Cecilie"" in 1927 would result"
"longest reported were a 24.4 m (80 ft) male caught off Shetland in 1905 and a female caught off Scotland sometime between 1908 and 1914, while the longest reliably measured were three 20.7 m (68 ft) males caught off Iceland in 1973–74 and a 22.5 m (74 ft) female also caught off Iceland in 1975. Mediterranean population are generally smaller, reaching just above 20 m (65.5 ft) at maximum, or possibly up to . In the North Pacific, the longest reported were three 22.9 m (75 ft) males, two caught off California between 1919 and 1926 and the other caught"
"verified length was caught off of the coast of France in September 1973. A specimen caught off the coast of Italy and examined in an Italian fish market in 1881 was reported to weigh an extraordinary at a length of . Yet another fish was caught off Marmaris, Turkey in the late 1950's at an estimated size of between 5.77 m (18.9 ft) and 6.19 m (20.3 ft) making it the largest known specimen of the species. However, this estimate was created using photos of the shark and not at the time of capture so this estimate must be taken"
"is still occasionally used, but that ""octopi"" is incorrect. The giant Pacific octopus ""(Enteroctopus dofleini)"" is often cited as the largest known octopus species. Adults usually weigh around 15 kg (33 lb), with an arm span of up to 4.3 m (14 ft). The largest specimen of this species to be scientifically documented was an animal with a live mass of 71 kg (156.5 lb). Much larger sizes have been claimed for the giant Pacific octopus: one specimen was recorded as 272 kg (600 lb) with an arm span of 9 m (30 ft). A carcass of the seven-arm octopus,"
"and females up to , while in the Southern Hemisphere males reach and females — the authenticity of an alleged female caught 50 miles northwest of St. Kilda in July 1911 is doubted. The largest specimens taken off Iceland were a female and a male, while the longest off Nova Scotia were two females and a male. The longest measured during JARPN II cruises in the North Pacific were a female and a male. The longest measured by Discovery Committee staff were an adult male of and an adult female of , both caught off South Georgia. Adults usually weigh"
"Cassius (crocodile) Cassius is a male saltwater crocodile (""Crocodylus porosus"") recognized by the Guinness World Records as the world's largest crocodile in captivity in 2011. The animal measures in length, weighs approximately and is estimated to be more than 110 years old. Kept at the Marineland Crocodile Park, a zoo on Green Island, Queensland, Australia, Cassius was officially recognized by Guinness in 2011, but lost the title in 2012 to Lolong, a saltwater crocodile caught in the southern Philippines. Cassius again holds the record since Lolong's death in 2013. The crocodile, missing the tip of his snout, the front left"
"reddish brown above, and paling to gray on the lower sides and underneath. Older fish are usually plain colored, while the young often have transverse yellow bands on the sides. The maximum length is about 4 ft (120 cm) and top weight about 45 lb (20 kg). The IGFA world record stands at 37 lb 14 oz (17,20 kg), caught by Anders Jonasson outside Sørøya in northern Norway. It is distributed on both sides of the North Atlantic, mostly in moderately deep water. On the North American coast, it is regularly found southward to Cape Cod and occasionally off New"
"colossal squids may grow larger than , possibly up to . In 2005 a specimen was captured at a depth of while taking a toothfish from a longline off South Georgia Island. Although the mantle was not brought aboard, the mantle length was estimated at over , and the tentacles measured . The animal is thought to have weighed between . The largest recorded specimen was captured in 2007 by a New Zealand fishing boat off Antarctica. It was initially estimated to measure in length and weigh . The squid was taken back to New Zealand for scientific study. A"
"about 500-800 grams (1 pound to nearly 2 pounds) and grew to at least 42.5 cm (17 inches) in length. This makes it the largest mammaliaform (including true mammals) of the Jurassic. The previous record holder was ""Sinoconodon"" which was thought to weigh up to 500 g. At least another docodont, ""Haldanodon"", was adapted to a semi-aquatic lifestyle. Docodonts as a whole might have had tendencies towards aquatic habits given their prevalence in aquatic deposits. The fossil was from the Daohugou Beds of the Inner Mongolia region of China. Fossils of pterosaurs, lissamphibians, coelurosaurian dinosaurs, and numerous invertebrates have also"
"A large male from Philippines, named Lolong, was the largest saltwater crocodile ever caught and placed in captivity. He was 20 ft 3 in (6.17 m), and weighed 2,370 lbs (1,075 kg). Believed to have eaten two villagers, Lolong was captured on 3 September 2011, and died in captivity on 10 February 2013. Female size: Adult females typically measure from in total length and weigh . Large mature females can reach and can weigh up to . The largest female on record measured about in total length. Female are thus similar in size to other species of large crocodiles and"
"Whale shark The whale shark (""Rhincodon typus"") is a slow-moving, filter-feeding carpet shark and the largest known extant fish species. The largest confirmed individual had a length of and a weight of about . The whale shark holds many records for size in the animal kingdom, most notably being by far the largest living nonmammalian vertebrate. It is the sole member of the genus Rhincodon and the only extant member of the family Rhincodontidae which belongs to the subclass Elasmobranchii in the class Chondrichthyes. Before 1984 it was classified as ""Rhiniodon"" into Rhinodontidae. The whale shark is found in open"
"in the Gulf of St. Lawrence off Prince Edward Island. This female great white was long. However, there was a report considered reliable by some experts in the past, of a larger great white shark specimen from Cuba in 1945. This specimen was long and had a body mass estimated at . However, later studies also revealed that this particular specimen was actually around in length, a specimen in the average maximum size range. The largest great white recognized by the International Game Fish Association (IGFA) is one caught by Alf Dean in south Australian waters in 1959, weighing ."
"Lolong Lolong (died 10 February 2013) was the largest crocodile in captivity. He was a saltwater crocodile (""Crocodylus porosus"") measured at , and weighed , making him one of the largest crocodiles ever measured from snout-to-tail. In November 2011, Australian crocodile expert Dr. Adam Britton of National Geographic sedated and measured Lolong in his enclosure and confirmed him as the world's largest crocodile ever caught and placed in captivity. Lolong died in captivity at around 8 pm on 10 February 2013 from pneumonia and cardiac arrest. Lolong was caught in a Bunawan creek in the province of Agusan del Sur"
"off Alaska in 1925, and a 24.7 m (81 ft) female also caught off California, while the longest reliably measured were a 21 m (69 ft) male caught off British Columbia in 1959 and a 22.9 m (75 ft) female caught off central California between 1959 and 1970. In the Southern Hemisphere, the longest reported for each sex were , while the longest measured by Mackintosh and Wheeler (1929) were . Major F. A. Spencer, while whaling inspector of the factory ship ""Southern Princess"" (1936–38), confirmed the length of a female caught in the Antarctic, south of the Indian Ocean;"
"blue whale caught in the Antarctic in the 1937–38 season. A male was verified by Japanese scientists in the 1947–48 whaling season. The longest reported in the North Pacific was a female taken by Japanese whalers in 1959, and the longest reported in the North Atlantic was a female caught in the Davis Strait. The average weight of the longest scientifically verified specimens () would be calculated to be 176.5 tonnes (194.6 tons), varying from 141 tonnes (155.4 tons) to 211.5 tonnes (233.1 tons) depending on fat condition. One study found that a hypothetical blue whale would be too large"
"leg, and the tip of his tail, is named after Cassius Clay, the birth name of boxer Muhammad Ali. Cassius was known as a problem animal which attacked boats in the Northern Territory's Finniss River and was captured in 1984. Three years later, he was brought to Green Island by crocodile hunter George Craig, who had opened Marineland Melanesia in 1969. At the time of his introduction at the zoo, Cassius measured . Cassius (crocodile) Cassius is a male saltwater crocodile (""Crocodylus porosus"") recognized by the Guinness World Records as the world's largest crocodile in captivity in 2011. The animal"
"of all invertebrates (in terms of mass) are the largest squids. The colossal squid (""Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni"") is projected to be the largest invertebrate. Current estimates put its maximum size at long and , based on analysis of smaller specimens. In 2007, authorities in New Zealand announced the capture of the largest known colossal squid specimen. It was initially thought to be and . It was later measured at long and in weight. The mantle was long when measured. The giant squid (""Architeuthis dux"") was previously thought to be the largest squid, and while it is less massive and has a"
"of Southern Asia and Australia, with adult males being typically long. The largest confirmed saltwater crocodile on record was long, and weighed about . Unconfirmed reports of much larger crocodiles exist, but examinations of incomplete remains have never suggested a length greater than . Also, a living specimen estimated at and has been accepted by the Guinness Book of World Records. However, due to the difficulty of trapping and measuring a very large living crocodile, the accuracy of these dimensions has yet to be verified. A specimen named Lolong caught alive in the Philippines in 2011 (died February 2013) was"
"but is generally olive green on the head blending to reddish brown in the tail. Adipose, anal, and caudal fins are often dark red. The belly ranges from nearly white to dark gray. The taimen appears to be the largest salmonid in the world, being heavier at average and maximum sizes than the largest North American salmonid, the chinook salmon. Most mature fish caught weigh from . The average length is from . The maximum size is not assured, but supposedly a fish caught in the Kotui River in Russia in 1943 with a length of and a weight of"
"fossils of Ross seals so far known date from much later, during the early Pleistocene of New Zealand. Ross seals reach a length of about and weight of ; females are slightly larger at . A molecular genetic based technique has been established to confirm the sex of individuals in the laboratory. Pups are about 1 m and 16 kg at birth. The coat is colored dark-brown in the dorsal area and silvery-white beneath. At the onset of the Antarctic winter, the coat fades gradually to become light brown. At close range, the Ross seal can be easily identified by"
"the frilled giant Pacific octopus, though it has yet to be formally described (Hollenbeck & Scheel, 2017; Hollenbeck ""et al."", 2017). In 2002, a giant specimen of ""Haliphron atlanticus"", the seven-arm octopus, was caught by fishermen trawling at a depth of off the eastern Chatham Rise, New Zealand. This specimen, the largest of this species and possibly of all octopuses, was the first validated record of ""Haliphron"" from the South Pacific. It had a mantle length of , a total length of , and a weight of , although it was incomplete (O'Shea, 2002:1; 2004a:9; Finn, 2014a:227). The total length"
"on the subject, describing various discoveries and adventures. He had remarkable tenacity, bearing in mind that harnesses were not yet invented, on one occasion he fought a tuna for 19 hours before being forced to cut his line. On 28 August 1911, after a struggle of a mere four hours and forty five minutes, Ross landed a tuna which set a record for the largest fish caught with a rod and reel. The record held for several years until he himself bettered it by catching a tuna. That record was broken in 1950 by his son-in-law, Commander Duncan Hodgson, who"
"Förch (1998) on the basis of morphological data. The third-heaviest extant squid species is ""Taningia danae"", also known as the Dana octopus squid. The largest well documented specimen is a 160 cm ML mature female reported by Roper & Vecchione (1993) from the North Atlantic. The original paper gave the mass of this specimen as , but according to Roper & Jereb (2010h:266) this figure is wrong and stems from a typographical error, the correct mass being . Roper & Vecchione (1993) were however consistent in their use of the 61.4 kg figure. At one point they wrote: [...] Zeidler"
"these captured individuals were rather large individuals as reaching around 16 m (52.5 ft), and were later made to be specimens for exhibition at several locations. There have also been an unknown number of modern catches off Taiwan as well. World's last catch records of the species were claimed to be two catches by Japanese whalers in the Yellow Sea in 1994. Historically, compliance with fisheries regulations regarding species caught and amount of the catch could be monitored when the fishing vessel returned to port, but with whaling factory ships, the whales were processed at sea, and the resulting products"
"2 tonnes [] is probably a more realistic figure. The maximum size of the giant Pacific octopus (""Enteroctopus dofleini"") has long been a source of debate in the scientific community, with dubious reports of specimens weighing hundreds of kilograms. In 1885, reporting on the longest octopus specimen reliably recorded up to that point, renowned malacologist William Healey Dall wrote: In 1874 I speared an octopus in the harbor of Iliuliuk, Unalashka, which was afterward hung, by a cord tied around the body immediately behind the arms, to one of the stern davits of the coast survey vessel under my command."
"start off with a lighter coloration, but soon darken. Males are 4.5 meters (15 ft) in length and females are at least 5.2 meters (17 ft) and probably weigh more than 1200 kg (2600 pounds). Calves are believed to be 2.1 meters (7 feet) in length. One beached specimen may have been 48 years old. Since the discovery of the type specimen, it has been found off the eastern coast of the United States, Ireland, the Canary Islands, western Africa, and Ascension Island. In August 2001, a specimen was found off São Paulo, Brazil; the southernmost specimen found to date."
"weighing caught in 1970 by a party of anglers fishing out of Oahu, Hawaii, aboard the charter boat ""Coreene C"" skippered by Capt. Cornelius Choy (this fish often referred to as 'Choy's Monster') still stands as the largest marlin caught on rod and reel. This fish was found to have a yellowfin tuna of over in its belly. In the Atlantic, the heaviest sport-fishing capture is Paulo Amorim's fish from Vitoria, Brazil. Commercial fishermen have boated far larger specimens, with the largest blue marlin brought into Tsukiji market in Tokyo supposedly weighing a massive . Large blue marlin have traditionally"
"(15.75 in), but much larger specimens are common. The largest know specimen is a female that was 94 cm (37 in) long. They closely resemble the red-footed tortoise, and can sometimes be difficult to tell apart, especially as a preserved specimen, which led to quite a bit of confusion over the names and ranges. The carapace (shell top) is a long oval with parallel sides and a high-domed back that is generally flat along the vertebrals (scutes or shell scales along the top of the carapace) with a slight peak near the hind end. There are five vertebral scutes, four"
"lobster is one of the largest spiny lobster species, and grows up to long, but does not usually exceed . Males can weigh up to ., with the record being a 16 lbs., 1 oz. male caught off Catalina island in 1968. The upper side of the animal is brownish red, without the paler bands or spots seen in some other spiny lobsters. The legs are a similar color, but with one or more lighter streaks running along their length. Males and females of all ages can be distinguished by the position of the two round genital openings or gonopores."