1 Decametre - Nature

Nature

  • 10 metres — average length of human digestive tract
  • 12 metres — length of a whale shark, largest living fish
  • 12 metres — wingspan of a Quetzalcoatlus, a pterosaur
  • 13 metres — length of a giant squid and colossal squid, the largest living invertebrates
  • 15 metres — approximate distance the tropical circles of latitude are moving towards the equator and the polar circles are moving towards the poles each year due to a natural, gradual decrease in the Earth's axial tilt
  • 18 metres — height of a Sauroposeidon, the tallest known dinosaur
  • 20 metres — length of a Leedsichthys, the largest known fish ever lived
  • 21 metres — height of High Force waterfall in England
  • 33 metres — longest measured length of a blue whale, the largest animal on earth, living or extinct, in terms of mass
  • 35 metres — length of a Supersaurus, the longest known dinosaur and longest vertebrate
  • 40 metres — average depth beneath the seabed of the Channel tunnel
  • 52 metres — height of Niagara Falls

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    All nature is a temple where the alive
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