The largest living thing, ever??

It is not easy to say which is the largest living thing but several living things are very large. The Aspen tree, shown in the picture, may be the largest because it starts with one tree and spreads via a root structure that produces genetically identical trees. So this forest is really one tree that looks like many trees. The largest single tree is believed to be a tree called 'General Sherman'. It is 84 meters tall and 11 meters thick at the base. The largest known animal is the Blue Whale at 34 meters long weighing 210 tons. This is also larger than any know dinosaur. The largest land animal today is the African Bush Elephant and like the Blue whale this one was shot when it weighed 12 tons. The largest land animal to have ever lived is thought to be the Argentinosaurus but a complete skeleton has never been found. However it is unlikely that any dinosaur ever weighed more than 100 tons so the Blue whale is still the biggest animal ever.