What Animal has the Largest Eye

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What Animal has the Largest Eye?
By Mike Emard
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Which Animal has the Largest Eye?

• The Giant Squid
• Length 60 feet long (18 m)
• Eye Size 10 inches in
• diameter
• Largest ever measured
• 20 inches (50 cm) in Thimble
• Tickle Bay, Newfoundland, Canada.
• Largest Eye

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Other Questions to Think About

• What is the largest animal?
• Does the largest animal have the largest eye?
• What is the smallest
• animal?
• What animal has the
• smallest eye?

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What is the Largest Animal?

• The Blue Whale
• Length 80-100 feet long
• Weight 100 tons (200,000 lbs)
• -Click here to hear the Blue
• Whale
• Largest Animal

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Does the Largest Animal have the Largest Eye?

• No
• We just learned that the largest animal is the
  blue whale and our main question tells us the
  largest eye belongs to the giant squid.

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What is the Smallest Animal?

• -Protozoa ? -Bug?
• -Mouse?
• -Bird?
• What else?

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NYS Standards

• Standard 4 Science
• The Living Environment
• 1. Living things are both similar to and
  different from each other and nonliving things.
• 2. Organisms inherit genetic information in a
  variety of ways that result in continuity of
  structure and function between parents and
  offspring.
• 3. Individual organisms and species change over
  time.
• 5. Organisms maintain a dynamic equilibrium that
  sustains life.
• 6. Plants and animals depend on each other and
  their physical environment.