“Unbelievable Beasts: Discover the Colossal Creatures Roaming Our Planet Today!”
When it comes to Queen Alexandra’s birdwing butterflies, the females are actually the most impressive. They’re way bigger than their male mates, but the males are more vibrantly colored with shimmering blue and green wings. Females simply have brown wings with white triangles.
The Biggest Earthworm Is Over Nine Feet Long
Gross. We don’t often want to think of slippery, sliding things creeping just below the surface, but that’s a reality we’ve got to face. Nature has many wonders and some of them are wildly weird worms. Australia’s Giant Gippsland Earthworm is one of the biggest things lurking just below. It can grow up to a whopping 9.8 feet long and live up to five years (that’s right, this giant invertebrate clocks out at kindergarten).
Don’t worry though. You probably won’t find this worm lurking beneath your front lawn. They thrive in the wet, clay subsoils of river banks and hardly ever come to the surface (unlike their smaller relatives who pop up every now again to defecate).
This 922-Pound Liger Is The World’s Largest Living Cat
At 922 pounds, Hercules certainly earns his name. This liger – a hybrid offspring from a lion and a tiger – calls the Myrtle Beach Safari wildlife preserve home. He clocks in at 131 inches long and measures 49 inches tall at the shoulder, but he’s hardly as fierce as he looks. He still enjoys getting fed a bottle of milk by his keepers, and even at over 100 times the average weight of a house cat, he still likes to play like a kitten. Ligers are the largest of the big cats and can grow up to twice the size of a purebred tiger or lion.
