• Question: @sean What is the biggest fish ever thought to be real?

    Asked by gonemud to Sean on 15 Jun 2011.
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      Sean Clement answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      Oooh, good one.

      Biggest ever marine animal (discounting coral reefs) is the Blue Whale. 33.5m is the size of the largest one ever encountered.

      Biggest FISH ever? Hmm. The largest one alive today is the Whale Shark… The largest one ever? Maybe the Megalodon… An extinct species of shark thought to be over 16m long and a mouth filled with razor-sharp 6″ long teeth. There might have been bigger but Megalodon is considered to be the largest top carnivore to ever have lived…

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