Which Animals Can Have The Most Babies? [Infographic]

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Michelle Mruk

An organism’s fecundity is the number of offspring it can have in a lifetime. Here, species are listed from left to right by adult body weight.

This article originally appeared in the December 2013 issue of Popular Science.

 
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