Body length6 m
16.9Violins
60 millionViruses
Large adult female; males average ~3.5-4 m
Photo by Gerald Schömbs on Unsplash
Great White Shark
The ocean's most famous apex predator/Marine Life
The great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) is basically a torpedo with teeth and an attitude problem. Adults average around 4-6 meters long and can detect a single drop of blood in 100 liters of water. They've been patrolling the oceans for roughly 16 million years, which means they pre-date trees going extinct and coming back.
Measurements
Body mass2,000 kg
1.4 tenthsSchool buses
8 tenthsPickup trucks
Large adult female
Bite force18,216 N
3.6 hundredthsTugboat pulls
1.8 billionSand grain weights
1.21Seatbelt catches
Estimated maximum; among the strongest of any living animal
Swim speed (burst)11.1 m/s
22.2Slow shopping carts
3.5 tenthsHighway speeds
22.2Escalators
~40 km/h in short bursts during attack
Tooth length7.6 hundredths m
5.4 hundredthsFoosball tables
14.1 trillionCarbon nuclei
Upper teeth; roughly 7.6 cm each
Maximum dive depth1,200 m
480Sunflower heights
1.2 trillionNanometers
800,000Ant antennae
Recorded via satellite tags
Pup length at birth1.2 m
1.79Flute lengths
276 sextillionthsCarina Nebula widths
Cruising speed3.2 m/s
2 billionTectonic plates
1 tenthsHighway speeds
~11.5 km/h typical cruising speed