Largest virus: Pithovirus sibericum
The largest known virus was thawed out of 35,000-year-old permafrost and is 1.5 micrometers long. That's too small to see without a microscope, but for a virus — it's huge.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
Largest spider: the Goliath bird-eating spider.
Largest fruit: jackfruit.
Largest frog: the Goliath frog.
next slide will load in 15 secondsSkip AdSkip AdLargest flower: Rafflesia arnoldii.
Largest reptile: saltwater crocodile.
Largest land animal: African elephant.
Largest invertebrate: giant squid.
next slide will load in 15 secondsSkip AdSkip AdLargest animal with teeth: sperm whale.
Largest animal living now: blue whale. They're also the largest animal we've ever found evidence for.
Largest single-trunked tree: General Sherman, a sequoia
Largest living community of organisms: the Great Barrier Reef.
Second largest living thing: the Pando quaking aspen clone.
next slide will load in 15 secondsSkip AdSkip AdWinner, largest living thing: A gigantic spread of Armillaria ostoyae, also known as 'the Humongous Fungus,' which covers 2,385 acres in the Malheur National Forest in Oregon. The fungus's mycelia (the fungal equivalent of roots) spread through soil and tree roots and actually kill the trees it infects.