Name: 地球上最高的生物有哪些？人類其實也不算太矮小哦！ (The Tallest Lifeforms Of All Time)
Uploaded: 2018-09-02T21:01:40.000Z
Duration: 3 min 31 s

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your weight would be eight times greater.

地心引力將我們每個人向下牽引

The key to growing tall is how you use your energy.

長得高的秘訣在於你如何使用你的能量

That's why the tallest trees outrank any animal on Earth,

這就是為什麼最高的樹超越了地球上的任何動物

because trees spend all their energy on one thing;

因為樹將他們所有的能量花在一件事上

growing taller than their fellow neighbors.

And there are two trees that are the best growers

其中有兩種樹是最擅長長高的：

of them all: giant redwoods and mountain ashes.

Redwoods are renowned as the tallest lifeforms on Earth,

紅木著稱是地球上最高的生命體

but some experts think that mountain ashes could grow

但有些學者認為花楸樹能夠長得甚至更高

even taller if humans would stop cutting them down.

In fact, the tallest mountain ash was just

one meter shorter than the tallest redwood.

Unlike plants, animals spend energy on all sorts of tasks,

不同於植物，動物耗費能量在各種事情上

像是進食、走路，還有保持溫暖

But it doesn't mean they're small, either.

it would actually be taller than a giraffe,

And if we look at animals throughout Earth's history,

These towering sauropods were the biggest of the bunch.

這些高聳的蜥腳類動物是其中最高的一群

事實上，歷史上最高的前十種動物呢？

But what if we looked at the longest lifeforms, too?

但若是我們也看看最長的生物體呢？

If you balance the longest saltwater crocodile on its nose,

如果你將最長的淡水鱷魚以鼻尖立起

And if we ignore legs it gets even better.

而若是我們撇開有腿的，事情就更好玩了

Tip-to-tail, the green anaconda nearly doubles

But these land-dwellers have nothing on animals of the deep.

但這些陸上居民比起海底的動物就沒什麼了

Supported by water, sea life can practically ignore gravity,

因為被水支撐著，海生動物幾乎可以忽略地心引力

It's the most massive animal of all time.

For example, the entire cast of Broadway's

打個比方，牠的舌頭可以容納下

But it should be careful not to get tangled up

in the tentacles of a lion's mane jellyfish,

which makes the giant squid look small by comparison.

這些觸手使得大王烏賊顯得相較渺小

Now, the biggest fish alive is the whale shark,

and if we look into the past things get even bigger.

若是我們回顧過去，東西甚至顯得更大

Humans are bigger than 87.6% of mammals on Earth

人類比地球上百分之 87.6 的哺乳動物都要大

and the average Dutchman is the tallest of them all.

平均而言荷蘭人則是其中最高的

So there's no reason to ever feel small again,

especially if you're from the Netherlands.

Fun fact, the longest life-form of all time

有趣事實，有史以來最長的生命體

It's a honey fungus and the biggest one goes on

它是蜜環菌，最大型的長 3.8 公里

for 3.8 kilometers underneath a forest in Oregon.

就位於奧勒岡州的一片森林底下