Fascinating Nature
Nature's Superlatives
Who is the biggest? Who is the smallest? Nature has some amazing record-breakers. Let's meet a few of them!
Did you know?
The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever lived. It is heavier than the biggest dinosaurs!
An ostrich lays the biggest egg of any bird. One egg is as big as about 24 hen eggs!
The bee hummingbird is the smallest bird in the world. It weighs only about 2 grams.
Try this: Biggest to Smallest
Collect five fallen leaves. Line them up from the biggest to the smallest. Now do the same with five things from your room. Try a book, a spoon and a toy. Which is the biggest? Which is the smallest? Can you find something even smaller?
Go further: The Biggest, Smelliest Flower
Rafflesia has the biggest single flower in the world. It can grow about 1 metre across! But it does not smell sweet. It smells like rotten meat. Why? The smell calls flies and beetles. They carry its pollen from flower to flower. Rafflesia grows in rainforests, on islands like Sumatra.