The giraffe ( Giraffa camelopardalis ) is an African even-toed ungulate mammal, the tallest living terrestrial animal and the largest ruminant.

The most common of these, the Southern Cassowary, is the third tallest and second heaviest living bird, smaller only than the ostrich and emu.

From year to year, the tallest living dog is typically a Great Dane.

The tallest documented living specimen of a Douglas-fir tree in the world is found southeast of Coos Bay in the Sitkum area and is slightly more than 100 meters tall.

* Radar, the world's tallest living horse ( 2006 – 08 ), lived in Mount Pleasant ( however, Goliath was recorded as the world's tallest living horse in 2005 by Guinness Book of World Records ).

The tallest living things on Earth, the ancient redwood trees, dot the coastline, mainly north of San Francisco.

Eucalyptus regnans is the tallest of all flowering plants, and possibly the tallest of all plants, although no living specimens can make that claim.

The tallest measured living specimen, named Centurion, stands 101 metres tall in Tasmania.

That tree was about 1 metre shorter than the world's current tallest living tree, a Coast Redwood,.

***** Giraffes ( Giraffa camelopardalis ) are the tallest living land animals, reaching heights of up to nearly.

The largest living bird, the ostrich ( Struthio camelus ) was surpassed by the extinct Aepyornis of Madagascar, the heaviest of the group, and the extinct giant moa ( Dinornis ) of New Zealand, the tallest, growing to heights of.

The lion, the tallest living species in the cat family, which includes the genus Panthera.

The Emperor Penguin ( Aptenodytes forsteri ) is the tallest and heaviest of all living penguin species and is endemic to Antarctica.

And while Perun, seen as a hawk or eagle sitting on a tallest branch of tree, was believed to be ruler of heaven and living world, Veles, seen as a huge serpent coiling around the roots, was ruling the world of dead.

The General Sherman Tree is neither the tallest known living tree on Earth ( that distinction belongs to the Hyperion tree, a Coast redwood ), nor is it the widest ( both the largest cypress and largest baobab have a greater diameter ), nor is it the oldest known living tree on Earth ( that distinction belongs to the Methuselah tree, a Great Basin bristlecone pine ).

Stratosphere Giant was the tallest known living redwood until the discovery of three taller trees in Redwood National Park ; the tallest, Hyperion, measuring in September 2006.

He was formerly listed as the world's tallest living man according to Guinness World Records.

Many are large forest emergent species, typically reaching heights of 40 – 70 m tall, some even over 80 m ( in the genera Dryobalanops, Hopea and Shorea ), with the tallest known living specimen ( Shorea faguetiana ) 88. 3 m tall.

Eucalyptus regnans, the Australian Mountain Ash, is the tallest of all flowering plants ( Angiosperms ); today, the tallest measured specimen named Centurion is tall .< ref name = tallest >

Before the discovery of Centurion, the tallest known specimen was Icarus Dream, which was rediscovered in Tasmania in January, 2005 and is high.

The tallest known specimen of Douglas fir tree was once located in Lynn Valley within North Vancouver.

It typically grows to around 65 ft ( 20 m ) tall, though the tallest specimen currently known is 40m tall.

The tallest currently known specimen is located in Tasmania and is 87. 9 m tall.

A specimen on private land near Matirangi Forest in the Taranaki region is the tallest native tree in New Zealand at.

The tallest specimen, 82. 83 m tall, is in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, California ( USA ).

The tallest known individual specimen, near Williamsburg, Virginia, is 44. 11 m tall, and the stoutest known, in the Cat Island National Wildlife Refuge near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has a diameter at breast height ( DBH ) of 521 cm.

The tallest currently known specimen in Tasmania is 90. 7 m tall.

* Golden Cone of Ezelsdorf-Buch, found near Ezelsdorf near Nuremberg in 1953, circa 1000 – 900 BC ; the tallest known specimen at c. 90 cm.

The Anatolian plateau is interspersed with extinct volcanoes, the tallest of which is Mt.

The Fernsehturm ( TV tower ) at Alexanderplatz in Mitte is among the tallest structures in the European Union at.

It lies at an elevation of 1132 m ( 3717 ft ) on the right bank of the Ubaye River, and is surrounded by mountains which reach peaks of over 3000 m ; the tallest of these is the Needle of Chambeyron at 3412 m. Barcelonnette is situated 210 km from Turin, 91 km from Nice and 68 km from Gap.

It is now the fourth tallest skyscraper in Hong Kong, after International Commerce Centre, Two International Finance Centre and Central Plaza.

It is now the fourth tallest skyscraper in Hong Kong, after International Commerce Centre, Two International Finance Centre and Central Plaza.

The blue tower in the centre, the Basler Messeturm | Messeturm, was Switzerland's tallest building 2003-10 ; the bridge on the extreme right is the Wettsteinbrücke, Basel's second oldest bridge but recently replaced by a new structure.

Land elevations average, though Clipperton Rock, a barren volcanic outcrop located in the atoll's southeast, is considerably higher and forms the island's tallest point.

Today, Chicago's skyline is among the world's tallest and most dense.

Central Plaza is the third tallest skyscraper in Hong Kong.

Hence the reinforced concrete structure was adopted and Central Plaza is now one of the tallest reinforced concrete buildings in the world.

Its minaret is the world's tallest at 210 metres.

The Ormsby House is currently the tallest building in downtown Carson City, at a height of 117 feet.

The tallest free-standing cactus is Pachycereus pringlei, with a maximum recorded height of, and the smallest is Blossfeldia liliputiana, only about in diameter at maturity.

West of The Village, Downtown contains the two tallest buildings in the Quad Cities: the Wells Fargo Bank Building, which is 255 feet tall, and the Mid-American Energy Building, which is 220 feet tall.

* 2004 – The Millau viaduct, the tallest bridge in the world, near Millau, France is officially opened.

Now it is the tallest tower in the world, 634 meters high, and second tallest ( man-made ) structure on Earth, next to Burj Khalifa.

Qutub Minar is the world's tallest brick minaret, commenced by Qutb-ud-din Aybak of the Slave dynasty.

In the district of Groß-Buchholz the 282 metres high Telemax is located, which is the tallest building in Lower Saxony and the highest television tower in Northern Germany.