What is the longest animal on earth
What is the longest animal on earth
At first glance it may seem that the mostthe longest animal on Earth by logic is the largest of all existing creatures - the blue whale, whose length reaches 35 meters. However, this is not so!
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The longest animal on Earth istapeworm. Its Latin name is lineus longissimus. This externally unpleasant creature can reach a length of 60 meters. It turns out that the giant tapeworm is twice as long as the largest animal on Earth (blue whale).
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The body of the longest creation in the world isvery thin - no more than 1 centimeter in diameter. This creature has one unique feature: it can stretch out so that it easily breaks all conceivable and unthinkable records along the length. In other words, in a calm and relaxed state this worm reaches about 30 meters, but it costs to begin to stretch, as its length reaches already 60 meters. Outwardly in this state, this worm is like a long tourniquet.
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Young individuals of these creatures are painted inolive-brown or dark-brown color, and adults - in reddish-brown or black. The giant tapeworm lives at sea coasts in northwestern Europe, around the British Isles, in the northeast Atlantic, and along the Norwegian coast to the North and Baltic Seas.
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The longest animal on Earth is likepredator, and scavenger. However, judging by the speed of his movement, the lineus longissimus, rather, is a scavenger, rather than a predator. This creation is pretty voracious. The worm catches its victim in the following way: it shoots at it with a long tube, on which are sticky and poisonous hooks.
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Lineus longissimus is moved bymuscular contractions of your body (like other worms). Zoologists who observed the movement of the longest worm in the world, noted: during the movement, it is compressed, it stretches almost twice! Muscles tapeworm perform and one more function: they pump his blood. The fact is that a giant tapeworm (like all other worms) does not have a heart, so these creatures are considered primitive organisms.
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The very first description of this type of tapewormsdates from the 1770s. Lineus longissimus was described by the Norwegian naturalist Johan Gunnerus as Ascaris longissima. Zoologists classify tapeworms as inferior worms. Currently, about one thousand species of these animals are described. Curiously, most of them live in the seas, and not in the coastal zones, as does the longest animal in the world.
