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RE: the longest animal?
The longest inverterbrate is likely to be a Portugese Man 'O War jellyfish
(Physalia physalis and P. utriculus) which has tenticles up to 50 meters
long.
Nathan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. [SMTP:th81@umail.umd.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 1998 5:58 AM
> To: veselinka.stanisavac@siol.net
> Cc: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Re: the longest animal?
>
> At 10:24 AM 3/18/98 +0100, Berislav Krzic wrote:
> >
> >A bit of trivia question to spice up the list: Does anybody know which
> was/is the longest animal ever?
>
> The largest vertebrate for which we have complete material would be a blue
> whale. A complete adult Seismosaurus or Supersaurus (if such are ever
> found) would almost certainly be longer.
>
> As for invertebrates? Hmmm... Architeuthis (giant squid) is the most
> massive invertebrate known, but is there some other form which is even
> longer? Don't know... (Giant polychaetes?).
>
> Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
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