The Heaviest Animals in the World
The heaviest animals on Earth, ranked by body weight straight from the Creature Atlas encyclopedia. Tap any animal for its full profile.
- 1
Blue Whale
Mammal
140 tonnes
Weight
- 2
Bowhead Whale
Mammal
87.5 tonnes
Weight
- 3
Southern Right Whale
Mammal
60 tonnes
Weight
- 4
Steller's Sea Cow
Mammal
9 tonnes
Weight
- 5
Common Minke Whale
Mammal
6.8 tonnes
Weight
- 6
Woolly Mammoth
Mammal
5.7 tonnes
Weight
- 7
Orca (Killer Whale)
Mammal
4.5 tonnes
Weight
- 8
African Elephant
Mammal
4.3 tonnes
Weight
- 9
Asian Elephant
Mammal
4.0 tonnes
Weight
- 10
Sri Lankan Elephant
Mammal
3.8 tonnes
Weight
- 11
Basking Shark
Fish
3.6 tonnes
Weight
- 12
Gaur
Mammal
3.3 tonnes
Weight
- 13
Common Hippopotamus
Mammal
3.0 tonnes
Weight
- 14
Cuvier's Beaked Whale
Mammal
2.5 tonnes
Weight
- 15
White Rhinoceros
Mammal
2.5 tonnes
Weight
- 16
Javan Rhinoceros
Mammal
1.6 tonnes
Weight
- 17
Northern Elephant Seal
Mammal
1.4 tonnes
Weight
- 18
Ocean sunfish
Fish
1.3 tonnes
Weight
- 19
Narwhal
Mammal
1.2 tonnes
Weight
- 20
Walrus
Mammal
1.1 tonnes
Weight
- 21
Beluga Whale
Mammal
1.1 tonnes
Weight
- 22
Black Rhinoceros
Mammal
1.1 tonnes
Weight
- 23
Giraffe
Mammal
1 tonnes
Weight
- 24
Great white shark
Fish
890 kg
Weight
- 25
Water Buffalo
Mammal
800 kg
Weight