There have been many extremely large explosions, accidental and intentional, caused by modern high explosives, boiling liquid expanding vapour explosions (BLEVEs), older explosives such as gunpowder, volatile petroleum-based fuels such as gasoline, and other chemical reactions.

The largest airlines in the world can be measured in several ways.

This article lists the largest organisms for various types of life and mostly considers extant species, which found on Earth can be determined according to various aspects of an organism's size, such as: mass, volume, area, length, height, or even genome size.

The largest known prime number is , a number which has 41,024,320 digits when written in the decimal system.

The largest prehistoric animals include both vertebrate and invertebrate species.