World Records - Most Extreme

This is a list of the most extreme records including people, animals, insects and the rest of the world. Enjoy!

People World Records
  1. Sexiest Women
  2. Oldest Man
  3. Oldest Person
  4. Oldest Woman
  5. Heaviest Person
  6. Heaviest Man
  7. Heaviest Woman
  8. Lightest Person
  9. Tallest Person
  10. Tallest Man
  11. Tallest Woman
  12. Shortest Person
  13. Shortest Man
  14. Shortest Woman
  15. Biggest Arms
  16. Biggest Waist
  17. Longest Without Food
  18. Highest IQ
  19. Smartest Person
  20. Lowest IQ
  21. Richest Man
  22. Richest Person
  23. Richest Woman
Animals World Records
  1. Largest Animal
  2. Heaviest Cat
  3. Oldest Living Cat
  4. Oldest Dog
  5. Biggest Dog
  6. Smartest Animals
  7. Strongest Animal
  8. Fastest Animal
  9. Slowest Animal
  10. Smallest Animal
  11. Smallest Fish
  12. Largest Fish
  13. Largest Mamal
  14. Longest Snake
  15. Most Poisonous Animal
  16. Deadliest Snake
  17. Scariest Animal
  18. Stinkiest Animal
Insects World Records
  1. Strongest Insect
  2. Deadliest Spider
  3. Most Poisonous Insect
  4. Fastest Insect
World Records
  1. Most Expensive Apps
  2. Most Expensive Coffee
  3. Most Watched Videos
  4. Oldest Civilization
  5. Longest Word
  6. Deadliest Jobs
  7. Most Needed Jobs
  8. Hardest Language
  9. Easiest Language
Future Technology
  1. Top 10 fastest planes in the world 2024
  2. Top 10: Biggest planes in the world
  3. 9 best motorcycle gadgets to buy in 2024
  4. Best bicycle gadgets to buy in 2024
  5. Best robot vacuum cleaners for a revolutionary cleaning routine in 2024
  6. 8 best bathroom gadgets for a grooming routine upgrade in 2024
  7. 36 best eco-friendly gifts in 2024
  8. 9 of the best cheap gadgets for a budget-friendly life upgrade in 2024
  9. Best power banks and portable chargers to keep you fully charged in 2024
  10. Best Lego Technic sets to build in 2024
  11. Disco fridges and tech that wants you to pee on it: The 7 weirdest gadgets announced at CES 2023
  12. Building a new Sun: The world's largest science experiment continues to take shape
  13. 10 best retro gadgets to buy in 2024
  14. Nuclear fusion: Inside the construction of the world’s largest tokamak
  15. Addiction, crime and data breaches: The metaverse could become a wild west if we’re not careful
  16. The 7 best crystal making kits for learning about science in 2024
  17. In pictures: World’s largest carbon capture plant in action
  18. Meet KUKA, the robot that’s tackling chemistry’s biggest challenges
  19. Oculus Quest: Virtually reality goes wireless, now with hand-tracking
  20. The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lighting II: onboard with the world’s most advanced fighter jet
  21. Land speed record: the 18 fastest cars in the world and their drivers
  22. Soylent: what's the UK's newest meal replacement shake all about?
  23. Five of the biggest hacks in recent memory
  24. NASA's Martian habitat contest final stage winners announced
  25. Something in the air: five indoor air quality monitors tested
  26. 10 of the greatest robots in sport (and one human)
  27. What is the most accurate type of biometric identification?
  28. Eight of the smartest-looking new phones from MWC 2018
  29. Which plane has the biggest wingspan?
  30. Should you invest in cryptocurrency?
  31. What’s the smallest robot?
  32. The coolest festival camping gear for 2017
  33. Five of the smartest robots in history
  34. What’s the smoothest known material?
  35. What’s the biggest robot in the world?
  36. What are the most sophisticated drones capable of?
  37. Inition: London’s most cutting-edge company?
  38. Watch as engineers bully the latest Atlas robot
  39. What is the world’s smallest camera?
  40. Ultimate Test: home security systems
  41. What is the world’s strongest truck?
  42. What’s the longest railway tunnel in the world?
  43. Electric car group test: Renault Zoe review
  44. Volkswagen XL1 first test – the world’s most efficient production car
  45. Review: The world's smartest cars
  46. Where can you find the fastest broadband speed in the world?
  47. Top 5 most exciting gadgets for 2013
  48. What is the most advanced robot around today?
  49. What is the most difficult machinery to operate?
  50. What's the most energy-efficient car wheel size?
Space
  1. NASA is ready to test tech that could save the Earth from devastating asteroid impact
  2. Top 10 largest stars in the Universe
  3. Comets 2024: The 6 brightest to see this year
  4. Jupiter opposition 2023: How to see the gas giant at its biggest and brightest tonight
  5. Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the Universe’s greatest mysteries - podcast
  6. The closest planet to Earth? Probably not the one you’re thinking of
  7. What's the largest planet in the Universe?
  8. The new mystery hidden inside the Universe's biggest ever black hole
  9. The Universe is a hologram: Stephen Hawking's final theory, explained by his closest collaborator
  10. Astrology’s biggest 2023 claim debunked: Saturn isn’t moving into Pisces. It’s not even close
  11. Venus-Jupiter conjunction 2023: The best images from around the globe
  12. Black holes, exoplanets and distant galaxies: James Webb Space Telescope’s best discoveries after one year in space
  13. Mars in opposition: How to see the Red Planet at its biggest and brightest tonight
  14. Leonid meteor shower 2022: How to get the best chance of spotting a shooting star
  15. Jupiter in opposition: How to see the godfather of the Solar System at its biggest and brightest tonight
  16. Harvest Moon 2022: How to see the full Moon in the UK tonight
  17. Perseid meteor shower 2022: How to make the most of poor viewing conditions
  18. Superluminous supernovae: How we’ll find the most powerful explosions in the Universe
  19. 20 of the most amazing moons in the Solar System
  20. What is gravity? A guide to nature's most mysterious force (and what we still don't know)
  21. How to get the best chance of seeing the Leonid meteor shower 2021
  22. Top 10: Heaviest spacecraft
  23. Solar eclipse 2021: The best pictures of the Sun spectacle from around the world
  24. Flower supermoon UK: How to see the largest full Moon of 2021 tonight
  25. Top 10: Tallest mountains in the Solar System
  26. Perseverance’s 7 minutes of terror: Why a Mars landing is NASA’s greatest test
  27. The Universe’s 7 biggest mysteries (and why they’re unsolved)
  28. Discover how to observe the biggest meteor shower of the year
  29. What’s the most abundant particle in the Universe?
  30. What’s the tallest mountain in the Solar System?
  31. Neutron stars locked in 'fiercely tight' orbit could explain Universe's biggest mysteries
  32. What is the largest known celestial body?
  33. 10 of the Hubble Space Telescope’s greatest discoveries
  34. Black holes and dark energy: how Hubble discovered the Universe's darkest secrets
  35. The Voyager mission and our Pale Blue Dot: How the most famous picture in science came to be
  36. The quest for quantum gravity: why being wrong is essential to science
  37. The nine most mysterious objects in the Universe
  38. 23 of NASA's most beautiful galaxy pictures
  39. Final farewells: poignant last pictures of our most inspirational space missions
  40. The hunt for the oldest galaxies in the Universe
  41. What is the smallest known star in the Universe?
  42. Colin Stuart: The most mysterious objects in the Universe
  43. What is the biggest a moon can be in relation to its mother planet?
  44. Mind-blowing things we learned watching the new Voyager film The Farthest
  45. What is the weirdest thing sent to space?
  46. Top 10 largest stars in the Milky Way
  47. What is the most reflective body in the Solar System?
  48. Top 10: What are the top 10 most expensive space missions?
  49. What is the biggest telescope on Earth?
  50. What missing lander means for Europe’s quest to find life on Mars
  51. Biggest ever sky map shows 1,000,000,000 stars
  52. Possibly habitable planet found around our nearest neighbour star
  53. Which planet, if it disappeared, would affect Earth the most?
  54. Oldest oxygen in the Universe discovered
  55. Largest exoplanet orbiting two suns discovered
  56. Asteroids most likely delivered water to the moon – here's how we cracked it
  57. Supermassive black hole discovered in the unlikeliest of places
  58. Hubble Space Telescope spots furthest galaxy
  59. Did a tiny star power one of the biggest bangs in the Universe?
  60. NASA telescopes spot faintest galaxy in the Universe
  61. What's the biggest gamma-ray burst ever recorded?
  62. What is the largest object in the Universe?
  63. The coldest place in the Universe looks like a ghost
  64. The highest skydive in history
  65. What's the soonest life could have evolved after the Big Bang?
  66. What's the world record for staying in Space the longest?
  67. What is the coldest known location in our Solar System?
  68. Beyond Earth, what's the most likely site of life?
The Human Body
  1. The best way to kill a superbug? Weaponise a virus
  2. Why most diets fail and what to eat to succeed, according to a weight loss surgeon
  3. Dr Michael Mosley: The 10 most powerful daily habits for boosting your health and happiness
  4. The mirror test: This one-minute experiment can tell if your child is self-aware
  5. Instant Genius Podcast: Busting testosterone myths
  6. Top 10 countries that drink the most beer
  7. Instant Genius Podcast: Why touch is our most misunderstood sense, with Prof Michael Banissy
  8. The ultimate anxiety guide: The 6 biggest questions about worrying, answered by a psychologist
  9. Social fitness is the biggest predictor of a happy life. Here’s how to improve yours
  10. The 7 biggest lies social media tells you about weight loss
  11. What is the rarest eye colour in the world?
  12. What’s the longest a human can hold their breath underwater?
  13. Who is the oldest person in the world in 2024?
  14. Who is the tallest person in the world?
  15. RNA: What it is, what it does, and why it’s one of life’s most important molecules
  16. Instant Genius Podcast: Medical Detection Dogs, with Dr Claire Guest
  17. A neuroscientist debunks the most annoyingly common productivity myths
  18. Dr Michael Mosley: The best way to lose weight? Eat more protein
  19. Are you more likely to get chest infections if you’ve got no tonsils?
  20. The 6 best habits to keep your brain fit, according to neuroscience
  21. Why it's healthy to think about your own death
  22. Your brain on LSD: a guide through the most mind-blowing psychedelics research
  23. The stress test: What heart rate variability can tell you about your mental health
  24. In praise of caffeine, the world’s most widely consumed psychoactive drug
  25. Which part of the human body evolved most recently?
  26. First studies from largest-ever human genome database released
  27. What are the biggest scientific misconceptions about race?
  28. Prostate cancer blood test 'faster and kinder' than traditional biopsies
  29. Robert Koch: how he identified one of the 19th Century's biggest killers
Planet Earth
  1. The technology solving the ocean's greatest mysteries
  2. The weirdest and rarest weather phenomena from around the world
  3. Marvel at some of the most colourful places on Earth
  4. Where is the rainiest place on Earth?
  5. Top 10 largest cities in the world
  6. Top 10 longest rivers in the world 2023
  7. A jaw-dropping vision of the future: The 11 best Environmental Photographer 2023 winners
  8. What is the coldest city in the world in 2023?
  9. In pictures: The electric-blue lava pouring from Earth’s strangest volcano
  10. The Amazon rainforest: The wonders of Earth’s most unexplored wilderness, explained
  11. Top 10 hottest places on Earth, ranked
  12. What is the tallest mountain in the world? No, it's not Mount Everest
  13. Summer solstice 2023 today: When is it and what causes the year’s longest day?
  14. 8 most dangerous cities in the world
  15. Top 10 largest countries in the World 2024
  16. Top 10 smallest countries in the world
  17. What are the 10 coldest places on Earth?
  18. When does summer start and when is the longest day?
  19. Top 10 skyscrapers: Tallest buildings in the world
  20. Earth's most extreme towns: Inside the hottest, wettest and riskiest settlements on the planet
  21. In pictures: Welcome to the most diverse waters on planet Earth
  22. Winter solstice 2022: Everything you need to know about the shortest day of the year
  23. For those who like to rock: The most interesting rock formations on the planet
  24. Welcome to Devil's Valley: The world's oldest geothermal power plant
  25. In pictures: The most iconic volcanic eruptions of 2021
  26. Studying the hottest place on Earth: Danakil depression in pictures
  27. Mountains: a scientist’s guide to the tallest peaks on Earth and beyond
  28. The Amazon rainforest: could it become a desert?
  29. Ocean explorer completes deepest-ever dive in Mariana Trench
  30. Six of the most extreme jobs in science
  31. 10 of the most mysterious places in the oceans
  32. How thick is the thickest fog?
  33. I love it because it’s so remote. It used to take me three days to forget about the rest of the world
  34. How to survive inside one of Earth’s deadliest volcanoes
  35. What is the deepest lake on Earth?
  36. What’s the most remote inhabited place on Earth?
  37. Living in the most inhospitable places on Earth
  38. How we discovered the world's oldest fossils
  39. What is the greenest energy source?
  40. Top 10 most explosive volcanic eruptions*
  41. Top 10: What are the longest lasting landfill items?
  42. Largest single volcano on Earth uncovered
  43. What's the biggest man-made hole in the world?
  44. What is the highest mountain on the ocean bed?
  45. World's most extreme science labs
  46. What’s the furthest south the Northern Lights have been seen?
  47. Where is the safest place to stand outside in a thunderstorm?
Everyday science
  1. 8 of the wildest ideas in science that will blow your mind
  2. Who has the highest IQ in the world in 2024?
  3. The top 10 happiest countries in the world 2024
  4. The 5 biggest questions about Doctor Who, answered by real-life science
  5. Top 8 hottest peppers in the world 2024
  6. Nature’s weirdest: This (ugly) shampoo ginger lily plant can make your hair look beautiful
  7. Here’s the fastest (and cheapest) way to dry your clothes indoors, according to science
  8. What is the biggest number in the Universe?
  9. What is the easiest language to learn? A complete beginner’s guide to linguistics
  10. Why Ant-Man is secretly the strongest Avenger by far, a scientist explains
  11. Dr Michael Mosley's 7 best science-backed tips to improve your health
  12. 7 of the best smart thinking books to read in 2024
  13. What’s the best thing to do when you can’t sleep?
  14. Test your brain with these Christmas puzzles
  15. Top 10: World’s longest bridges
  16. What is the best way to decorate my house, according to science?
  17. What’s the best way to make a decision?
  18. 5 of the best science kits and chemistry sets for kids in 2024
  19. 7 of the best Airfix kits to try out in 2024
  20. Which is the best country to be a parent?
  21. Are most maps of the world wrong?
  22. Why is flash photography banned from most museums?
  23. Top 10: Deepest freediving world records
  24. Top 10 most productive countries
  25. What is the deadliest Olympic sport?
  26. How the brightest minds in science – from Einstein to Da Vinci – revealed the nature of light
  27. Top 10: Countries with speediest internet
  28. Podcast: Could 'counterfactuals' solve the biggest problems in physics?
  29. What is the strongest naturally occurring adhesive?
  30. What's the loudest a sound can be?
  31. What’s the most popular dog breed?
  32. What’s the smallest particle?
  33. I love eating garlic bread for lunch. What’s the quickest way to freshen my stinky breath for afternoon meetings?
  34. What is the quietest natural location on the surface of the planet?
  35. Wolfgang Pauli and the discovery of the Universe's most elusive particle
  36. Does chewing gum take seven years to digest?
  37. What’s the most dangerous sport?
  38. I’d like to learn a language, which is the easiest one to pick up?
  39. Which chocolate is healthiest to binge on: milk, dark or white?
  40. The weird ways extraordinary scientists made synthetic elements
  41. What’s the most environmentally friendly way to take sandwiches to work?
  42. What's the highest voltage ever produced?
  43. What’s the oldest invention that we still use today?
  44. What’s the simplest unsolved maths problem?
  45. What's the furthest a message in a bottle has travelled?
  46. They did what?! 2017’s weirdest science stories
  47. 10 of the most mysterious codes and ciphers in history
  48. Top 10: What are the fastest rollercoasters?
  49. Why are most passenger planes painted white?
  50. What is the darkest human-made substance?
  51. What’s the slowest a plane can fly?
  52. The Tiniest Atom
  53. Top 10: Which are the most radioactive foods?
  54. Nine of the funniest science songs on the internet
  55. Einstein’s constant speed of light put to the test
  56. Top 10: What are the largest stadiums in the world?
  57. What’s the sharpest knife in the world?
  58. Where is the coldest part of the fridge, the bottom or the top?
  59. What is the record for the most languages spoken by one person?
  60. What's the most amazing result in mathematics?
  61. What are the most common phobias?
  62. Leonardo da Vinci named as science's greatest genius
  63. Who is the greatest genius?
Nature
  1. Nature's weirdest: 9 seriously strange animal mouths
  2. The longest living animals on Earth 2024
  3. What is a Christmas Tree worm?
  4. What is a red river hog?
  5. Top 10: Strongest animals in the world
  6. World's weirdest: Meet the purple frog flaunting nature’s most bizarre backside
  7. Adorable, bizarre and outright stunning: The 25 best Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice images
  8. Try not to laugh at these 10 best Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2023 winners
  9. How mating pufferfish created one of the ocean’s greatest mysteries
  10. Nature at its most stunning: The 19 best images from 2023’s Nature Conservancy Photography Prize
  11. Snake Island: The bizarre true story of Earth’s most venomous isle
  12. The world’s largest pumpkin is ridiculously large… But is far from its biological limit
  13. World's weirdest animals: Meet the great-eared 'goatsucker' nightjar bird
  14. The 25 most jaw-dropping images from Nikon’s Small World 2023 microphotography contest
  15. Blobfish: Facts about the world's ugliest animal
  16. Bizarre nature: 25 weird animals
  17. The Amazon river dolphin
  18. The secrets of the immortal jellyfish, Earth's longest-living animal
  19. The oldest trees in the world (top 6, ranked)
  20. Top 10 largest insects in the world
  21. Top 7 largest animals in the world
  22. Top 10 smartest animals in the world
  23. Top 10: Biggest dog breeds in the world
  24. Hidden testicles and petrified urine: Why the hyrax is one of the world’s weirdest animals
  25. World’s weirdest creatures: Meet the muntjac deer, nature’s glandular wonder
  26. World’s weirdest creatures: The fried egg jellyfish, the blobby invertebrate who could help beat cancer
  27. 5 of the best dinosaur books for adults and kids in 2024
  28. Top 10: Which animals have the strongest bite?
  29. Top 10: Biggest snakes in the world
  30. What's the longest a dog can live for?
  31. Top 10: Biggest spiders in the world
  32. What's the longest a cat can live for? Here are the world's oldest felines
  33. 8 of the best David Attenborough documentaries and where to watch them
  34. The loudest creatures in the animal kingdom: In pictures
  35. Cannibalism, barbed penises and a whole lot of venom: The 8 most brutal animal courtships
  36. The 7 biggest gardening myths, debunked by science
  37. World’s most adorable foxes and mind-blowing snow leopards: Best of this year’s Wildlife Photographer entries
  38. Animal architects: Meet the most incredible engineers in the animal kingdom
  39. Top 10: World's largest butterflies
  40. Eye eye, captain: The most amazing eyes in the animal kingdom
  41. 7 of the weirdest mammals that roamed the ancient Earth
  42. 5 of the best books about mammals
  43. The 5 biggest dog training myths debunked by science
  44. 12 of the weirdest deep-sea creatures that lurk in the oceans
  45. Lighting the way home: The latest winners from the WildArt photo competition
  46. Gotcha! A successful hunter wins the latest WildArt photo competition
  47. What animals could most humans beat in a fight?
  48. Top 10: The world's largest birds
  49. Top 10: Earth's smallest mammals
  50. Top 10: countries with increasing forest areas
  51. Why the Tarsier is one of nature’s strangest creatures
  52. How most life on Earth is dependent on fungi – including you
  53. Latest photography of California’s devastating drought emergency
  54. Top 5 biggest (and smallest) theropod dinosaurs
  55. What is the fastest animal in relation to body size?
  56. Foals rush in where angels fear to tread: Swiss military test helicopter horse evacuation procedure
  57. 16 amazing facts about tardigrades, the world's toughest animal
  58. What's the longest a butterfly can live for?
  59. Pretty deadly: The world’s most beautiful but dangerous creatures
  60. Survival of the friendliest: Why kindness, not aggression, helped humans thrive
  61. What’s the largest flying animal?
  62. Mammal evolution: How ancient fossils are revealing the secrets of our earliest ancestors
  63. Antarctica: the remarkable life that survives the coldest continent
  64. Slimy saliva, sticky tongues and anal syrup! 3 of the slimiest creatures in the animal kingdom
  65. Flamboyant animals: seven of nature’s most colourful show offs
  66. 18 amazing algae facts to help you enjoy, understand, and respect one of the world’s most important organisms
  67. Five of Earth’s most innovative animals that use tools
  68. Is it true that most ginger cats are male?
  69. World's smallest species of bear can read faces
  70. Do pest repeller plugs work?
  71. What's the biggest butterfly in the world?
  72. “Worms are hugely important, yet seem to be the most under-appreciated animal on the planet”
  73. Eight of nature’s grooviest dancing animals
  74. Top 10: Which animals sleep the most?
  75. What is the earliest, geologically, that humans could have survived on Earth?
  76. What is the dodo’s closest living relative?
  77. Top 10 oldest plants* on the planet
  78. Which life form has the biggest genome?
  79. What is the most agile bird?
  80. What creature makes the biggest seashell?
  81. They Did What?! Some of the silliest animal science news of 2016
  82. Top 10: what are the highest flying birds?

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