A man-o-war isn't actually a jellyfish but a siphonophore, which I thought would be the answer because some of them can reach enormous lengths, over 40m. But maybe they don't qualify as they are actually a colony of individuals that are fused together, not a single animal depending on how you define it.
I had a close encounter with a Lion’s Mane jellyfish. I was diving for scallops off the northwest coast of Scotland and after a disappointing haul I was in the process of surfacing when I spotted a large scallop I’d missed. I went back down only to find it was half a shell, no scallop. I was so annoyed I broke one of the cardinal rules of diving, you look up before going up. I didn’t and found myself in the midst, as it were, of a large member of the species, tentacles everywhere. As I was wearing a dry suit I was in no actual danger but it was a bit alarming. I just carried on ascending, right through the creature’s bell and basically ripped it apart. My suit was covered in stingers but I was fine.
I was expecting it to be a Pyrosome; much like the mentioned Man-o-war, it's a colony organism of enormous length. Though some googling suggests things may have changed since I last heard of it, as the length given on Wikipedia for the Pyrosome is only 60ft, while the Blue Whale is 98ft, and the Lion's Mane keeps its crown at 120ft.
"In 2020, marine scientists from the Schmidt Ocean Institute discovered the longest animal in the world in Western Australian waters. The almost 50m-long siphonophore surpasses the Lion’s Mane jellyfish, the blue whale, and the Giant Squid in both length and sheer shock factor."
@@jayjack6299 Pretty sure Pyrosomes are quite harmless. Like big floating tubes of bubble wrap. And they're siphonophores, not jellyfish, so no stingers.
A report claims that a giant lion's mane jellyfish with a length of 121.4 feet (37.0 meters) washed up on the shores of the Massachusetts Bay in 1870. The longest known bootlace worm was studied in 1864 and was found to be 180 feet (55 meters) in length.]
If it's tentacles were 120 foot long, surely when both ends are stretched out, then it's overall length must be 240 foot - longer than the 200 foot quoted. Or am I missing something in your comment??😊
He was desperately trying to not say Blue Whale because he knows what happens and we all knew what he was trying not to say, but they were waiting for him to fall into the trap... again.
The almost 50metre long siphonophore surpasses the Lion's Mane jellyfish, the blue whale, and the Giant Squid in both length and sheer shock factor. This alien-like sea creature has existed in our oceans for millions of years. Research into siphonophores began in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Nice copy-paste but you're unfortunately incorrect. Praya dubia, or the giant siphonophore, is not the longest animal. It's technically not an animal at all, it's a colony of smaller creatures called Zooids that each measure to around about 1 millimetre in length. The longest is not the Lion's Mane, though. You are correct in that. The Bootlace Worm, which has been observed up to 55 meters in length, is the longest.
@@animaltvi9515 ... No? Siphonophores are not regarded as a single organism, they are a colony of organism in mutual symbiosis. The correct term is colonial organism, which is not "one" organism. They also don't have parents, at least not two, because they reproduce asexually. Each Zooid is genetically identical to the last, so they are just cloning themselves over and over. Maybe look over the Wikipedia page before you try and correct people.
@DrOmni from the article i read. . Siphonophores are a strange kind of aquatic predator that resembles jellyfish and sting. They resemble jellyfish in some aspects and are related to the same family of creatures, but their body composition differs, resembling hundreds of microscopic jellyfish adhering to one another. A siphonophore is one organism, though. They have two parents, and they are "a product of sex.". So . 2 conflicting articles but obviously the one you read is the correct one. . Thats very pompous of you. . . . But judging from the end of your reply I'm not surprised. . But never mind..
@@animaltvi9515 Yes, you and your article are wrong. I'm not quoting an article myself, because the information I'm providing is widely available facts. Google "siphonophore asexual" and see for yourself. Look up the definition of a biological colony and take note how quickly siphonophores or zooids are mentioned as examples. Siphonophores do not have two parents. They do not have sex. They are not an individual organism, they are a clonal colony of zooids, or a conspecific colonial organism. These must seem like such big, difficult words to you, but I promise you that you can learn all of it. You just have to put down your garbage article, admit you were misinformed and look at the wider available information. I have faith in you.
They alternate between this one and the other one all the time. They were both amusing the first time but I skip them both now. I've got better things to watch than the same outros over and over!
For 90% of QI programs I find myself shouting at th screen "Shut the fuck up Alan. Stop clowning over someone else's turn to speak". And Stephen just indulges him most times. Sandy tries to better share interjection time and improv humour.
As far as I know, siphonophores are a colony of individuals, and though on the brink of the definition of what a single animal is, usually not considered as one. But the size remains impressive nonetheless
Someone else just mentioned the bootlace worm which does seem to be one single animal and has been measured longer. We humans like to put things into neat little categories. Unfortunately for us reality rarely lets us actually do that perfectly. Just look up how mushrooms reproduce. The mushroom is just what we see when the asexual parents clone themselves millions of times and then finally reproduce where they release spores. Also even the word and definition of "species" doesn't always work. Just look up "ring species".
The longest is a siphonophore, not a jellyfish, and the Portuguese Man'O War is a type of siphonophore (not the longest though), but the Lion's Mane is a jellyfish is not a siphonophore and is not the longest animal in the world. Again, QI misses the mark bby a bit.
Is it my uncle Terry's Arms? They were probably normal lengths but from memory they were about 4 n a half ft long. That's not a joke about Terry being weird n touchy. He just he had abnormally large arms.
I wanted to object that a jellyfish isn't an animal, but yes indeed it's under the animalia kingdom. didn't expect that at all. fucking weird freaky self-cestious blobs.
Thus gave birth to Qi’s longest running gag, Alan’s obsession with the Blue Whale.
Bill Bailey clearly knows the truth of the longcats.
Long cat is long.
A man-o-war isn't actually a jellyfish but a siphonophore, which I thought would be the answer because some of them can reach enormous lengths, over 40m. But maybe they don't qualify as they are actually a colony of individuals that are fused together, not a single animal depending on how you define it.
Boy do I have news for you - this was the answer in a later season with sandy :)
I had a close encounter with a Lion’s Mane jellyfish. I was diving for scallops off the northwest coast of Scotland and after a disappointing haul I was in the process of surfacing when I spotted a large scallop I’d missed. I went back down only to find it was half a shell, no scallop. I was so annoyed I broke one of the cardinal rules of diving, you look up before going up. I didn’t and found myself in the midst, as it were, of a large member of the species, tentacles everywhere. As I was wearing a dry suit I was in no actual danger but it was a bit alarming. I just carried on ascending, right through the creature’s bell and basically ripped it apart. My suit was covered in stingers but I was fine.
So what you are saying is you got in a fight with one and rang it's bell?
Given where you were, a dry suit was sensible 😆 Brrrr!
iiieeeuw you went right through its stomach, I hope it hasn't eaten in a while.
Poor creature
Quite an interesting anecdote though
The infamous blue whale gag
I was expecting it to be a Pyrosome; much like the mentioned Man-o-war, it's a colony organism of enormous length. Though some googling suggests things may have changed since I last heard of it, as the length given on Wikipedia for the Pyrosome is only 60ft, while the Blue Whale is 98ft, and the Lion's Mane keeps its crown at 120ft.
"In 2020, marine scientists from the Schmidt Ocean Institute discovered the longest animal in the world in Western Australian waters. The almost 50m-long siphonophore surpasses the Lion’s Mane jellyfish, the blue whale, and the Giant Squid in both length and sheer shock factor."
@backelie One of the world's scariest, deadliest animals? Of course it's from Australia, lol.
@@jayjack6299 Pretty sure Pyrosomes are quite harmless. Like big floating tubes of bubble wrap. And they're siphonophores, not jellyfish, so no stingers.
@@vegladex oh, then nvm then. Sorry to all the Aussie out there!
A report claims that a giant lion's mane jellyfish with a length of 121.4 feet (37.0 meters) washed up on the shores of the Massachusetts Bay in 1870. The longest known bootlace worm was studied in 1864 and was found to be 180 feet (55 meters) in length.]
I am very familiar with that Sherlock Holmes story as Mr Fry reads that audiobook so very well.
Lions Mane- me,dum dum--- thought that was a mushroom.
Well it is a mushroom and that's where my mind went too. But only because I grow mushrooms.
It is a mushroom, and happens to be the only mushroom I really like to eat. I can eat other mushrooms but don't particularly like them.
The largest lion's mane jellyfish recorded had tentacles 36.6 metres (120 feet) long, so I don't know where the elves got 200 feet from.
It is however still longer than a blue whale, and still stupidly big
Maybe if you stretch the tentacles out in opposite directions?
If you lift it up, it stretches like a cat.
If it's tentacles were 120 foot long, surely when both ends are stretched out, then it's overall length must be 240 foot - longer than the 200 foot quoted. Or am I missing something in your comment??😊
To be fair, Alan said a whale, not a blue whale.
The "Lions Mane Whale" p'raps.
The biggest of which is the blue whale
He was desperately trying to not say Blue Whale because he knows what happens and we all knew what he was trying not to say, but they were waiting for him to fall into the trap... again.
Alan uses innuendo so much the blue is implied.
One of these days, the answer is going to be 'Blue Whale'. And when that day comes...we're all doomed.
Blue whale has already been the answer, at least a few times.
@@SmashPortalBut Alan has yet to get it right on the go.
I remember one show where Blue Whale was the answer but Alan failed to guess it.
@@TallyDrakeits been the answer many times, and Alan has gotten it (In lucky losers he is irritated to get points)
Alan has been right I think one time when the answer has been blue whale.
The almost 50metre long siphonophore surpasses the Lion's Mane jellyfish, the blue whale, and the Giant Squid in both length and sheer shock factor. This alien-like sea creature has existed in our oceans for millions of years. Research into siphonophores began in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Nice copy-paste but you're unfortunately incorrect. Praya dubia, or the giant siphonophore, is not the longest animal. It's technically not an animal at all, it's a colony of smaller creatures called Zooids that each measure to around about 1 millimetre in length. The longest is not the Lion's Mane, though. You are correct in that. The Bootlace Worm, which has been observed up to 55 meters in length, is the longest.
@DrOmni but its classed as one organism and it still only has 2 parents.
@@animaltvi9515 ... No? Siphonophores are not regarded as a single organism, they are a colony of organism in mutual symbiosis. The correct term is colonial organism, which is not "one" organism. They also don't have parents, at least not two, because they reproduce asexually. Each Zooid is genetically identical to the last, so they are just cloning themselves over and over. Maybe look over the Wikipedia page before you try and correct people.
@DrOmni from the article i read. . Siphonophores are a strange kind of aquatic predator that resembles jellyfish and sting. They resemble jellyfish in some aspects and are related to the same family of creatures, but their body composition differs, resembling hundreds of microscopic jellyfish adhering to one another. A siphonophore is one organism, though. They have two parents, and they are "a product of sex.". So . 2 conflicting articles but obviously the one you read is the correct one. . Thats very pompous of you. . . . But judging from the end of your reply I'm not surprised. . But never mind..
@@animaltvi9515 Yes, you and your article are wrong. I'm not quoting an article myself, because the information I'm providing is widely available facts. Google "siphonophore asexual" and see for yourself. Look up the definition of a biological colony and take note how quickly siphonophores or zooids are mentioned as examples.
Siphonophores do not have two parents. They do not have sex. They are not an individual organism, they are a clonal colony of zooids, or a conspecific colonial organism. These must seem like such big, difficult words to you, but I promise you that you can learn all of it. You just have to put down your garbage article, admit you were misinformed and look at the wider available information. I have faith in you.
I thought it'd be some algae, which I recall being identified as one organism in recent years and to stretch for thousands of miles.
Not an animal, though.
I was so ready for someone to say that it's an earthworm, one that someone cut in half and then drove one of the two new worms to the next town over
Architeuthis of the mollusca phylum, cephalopoda class ''GIANT SQUID'' is really really big.
Oh, is this the episode that started it?
0:00 Hum. A dead Phenician/Carthaginian cow ?
Can't believe none of them said, "my manhood."
Well, they didn't get to where they are by being trite. With the possible exception of Alan.
I'd have thought Sherlock Holmes would have been required reading for all Brits.
I'm glad y'all went back to this outro
They alternate between this one and the other one all the time. They were both amusing the first time but I skip them both now. I've got better things to watch than the same outros over and over!
I've never noticed that Clive has an anti-neck that is slowly consuming his head.
You're just measuring the length of its digestive system, which is twice as large in a blue whale. The whale just has it all packed away.
I Googled the lion's mane jellyfish and - holy shit. I did not know jellies get that big!
The Portugese man o war is not a jellyfish.
For 90% of QI programs I find myself shouting at th screen "Shut the fuck up Alan. Stop clowning over someone else's turn to speak". And Stephen just indulges him most times. Sandy tries to better share interjection time and improv humour.
It's (almost) NEVER the blue whale.
I thought the longest animal is the giant siphonophore.
As far as I know, siphonophores are a colony of individuals, and though on the brink of the definition of what a single animal is, usually not considered as one. But the size remains impressive nonetheless
Someone else just mentioned the bootlace worm which does seem to be one single animal and has been measured longer. We humans like to put things into neat little categories. Unfortunately for us reality rarely lets us actually do that perfectly. Just look up how mushrooms reproduce. The mushroom is just what we see when the asexual parents clone themselves millions of times and then finally reproduce where they release spores. Also even the word and definition of "species" doesn't always work. Just look up "ring species".
Lions are cats. Bill was half right.
How long is the longest cat gut violin string?
Isn't there a species of jellyfish, only fond in deep water, that's something like 100m long ?
💙🐳👏👏👏👏👏😁💙
I want a rebate... about as factual as the current crisis.
Siphonophore!
The longest is a siphonophore, not a jellyfish, and the Portuguese Man'O War is a type of siphonophore (not the longest though), but the Lion's Mane is a jellyfish is not a siphonophore and is not the longest animal in the world. Again, QI misses the mark bby a bit.
Giant pyrosome colony? It behaves like a single "animal."
3 blue whales in a trenchcoat
Is it my uncle Terry's Arms?
They were probably normal lengths but from memory they were about 4 n a half ft long.
That's not a joke about Terry being weird n touchy.
He just he had abnormally large arms.
Long way to go this time.
the Midgårds Worm
It's called "the Midgard Serpent" in English. -5 points.
@@SweLink88 I’m well aware of that thx, but then it wouldn’t be an inside joke
I honestly thought that the answer would be something like the Pando superorganism.
That's a tree, not an animal.
You can tell this was early QI…
5 people there. 4 people got more screen time…
I think she tried to speak once. Got talked right over by two of the others. 🙄
I knew this from Octonauts! 😅
Sometimes, to often, Alan either ruins someone's gag or cuts short an explanation by the host with something very unamusing.
Stephen Fry - "He was Soft on Homosexuals" as opposed to Hard on Homosexuals!
The largest organism is the Pando Aspen clone which covers an area of 106 acres.
True but the question was "What's The Longest Animal In The World?" so that doesn't count. :)
I wanted to object that a jellyfish isn't an animal, but yes indeed it's under the animalia kingdom. didn't expect that at all. fucking weird freaky self-cestious blobs.
I want to be reincarnated as a Blue Whale as they’ve got a 30 ft long tongue and can breathe through the top of their head! 🎉😊
Alan can be bloody annoyong sometimes, with his juvenile interruptions.
Exactly what I was thinking. Mostly when someone like Bill is on a very funny gag
Remember, before Sandi, when QI was interesting?
Yes, we remember a time when QI was actually "I"