ALL ANSWERS · ANIMALS · DAILY No. 14 · SEPTEMBER 17, 2026
Size It Up Animals answer: September 17
The five Animals silhouettes for September 17, with the true sizes. If you have not played yet, this page is a spoiler — play these five first, then come back to argue with the numbers.
Day 14 ran from a common pill woodlouse (1.8 cm) to a humpback whale (14 m). The widest gap was round 5, Elasmosaurus against Eurasian Magpie, at 20×; the closest call was round 2, Koala against Atlantic Horseshoe Crab, only 1.3× apart — the kind of round that separates a 90 from a 60.
SPOILER · TODAY’S FIVE
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ROUND 1
Common Pill Woodlouse (adult) vs Etruscan Shrew (body, tail excluded)
Etruscan Shrew · reference · 4 cm Common Pill Woodlouse · true length · 1.8 cm 2.2× shorter than the Etruscan shrew
A common pill woodlouse reaches about 18 mm and rolls into a ball when touched.
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ROUND 2
Koala (large adult, head to rump) vs Atlantic Horseshoe Crab (adult female, with tail spine)
Atlantic Horseshoe Crab · reference · 60 cm Koala · true height · 80 cm 1.3× taller than the Atlantic horseshoe crab
A large koala measures about 80 cm head to rump — the species runs 60 to 85 cm — and it sleeps for around 20 hours a day.
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ROUND 3
Humpback Whale vs Grizzly Bear
Grizzly Bear · reference · 2 m Humpback Whale · true length · 14 m 7.0× longer than the grizzly bear
A humpback whale is about 14 m long — half a blue whale, with flippers a third of its length.
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ROUND 4
Velociraptor vs Gray Wolf
Gray Wolf · reference · 1.2 m Velociraptor · true length · 2 m 1.7× longer than the gray wolf
A real Velociraptor was about 2 m long and turkey-sized at the hip — feathered, not the film version.
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ROUND 5
Elasmosaurus vs Eurasian Magpie (wingspan)
Eurasian Magpie · reference · 52 cm Elasmosaurus · true length · 10.3 m 20× longer than the Eurasian magpie
Elasmosaurus measured about 10.3 m — a sea reptile whose neck alone held 72 vertebrae.
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