The elephant
The largest mammal living right now are the blue whales and the largest land mammal are elephants.Blue Whale Balaenoptera musculus.Well, the question states, "on the earth" as far as land mammals, it would be the elephant.
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The elephant is the largest land mammal.
By almost any absolute measurement, the blue whale is the biggest mammal living today. It can grow up to 100 feet and weigh more than 100 tons. On land its the African elephant.
The elephant is the largest.
The largest land mammal in Asia is the Asian Elephant, Elephas Maximus.
The largest land mammal is the elephant while the largest sea mammal and the largest mammal in general is the blue whale.
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Elephant
The African elephant is the biggest terrestrial animal.The biggest land mammal alive today is the African bush elephant, which can weigh up to 6.5 tons and stand 10 to 13 feet tall at the shoulder. The largest land mammal to have ever existed was the Paraceratherium, which was 20 feet tall at the shoulder and may have weighed 15 to 20 tons. It was a long necked, long legged, hornless relative of the rhinoceros.
Elephants are the largest land mammal, but the biggest mammal in the world is not on land, but in the ocean--whales are definitely the largest mammals in the world.