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Detailed explanation-1: -The blue whale is significantly longer than the average elephant, despite the fact that the elephant is almost as tall as the average blue whale.

Detailed explanation-2: -The largest land-dwelling mammal on earth, at seven tons, the African elephant is smaller than the blue whale for good reason: The buoyancy of water helps to counteract the blue whale’s weight, and elephants are terrestrial.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Antarctic blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus ssp. Intermedia) is the biggest animal on the planet, weighing up to 400, 000 pounds (approximately 33 elephants) and reaching up to 98 feet in length.

Detailed explanation-4: -Blue whales are the largest animals ever to live on our planet. They feed almost exclusively on krill, straining huge volumes of ocean water through their baleen plates (which hang from the roof of the mouth and work like a sieve).

Detailed explanation-5: -Dreadnoughtus schrani is a newly discovered species of dinosaur and the biggest titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur found so far. It is the largest land animal who’s body mass can be accurately calculated.