Every animal on this page is exactly 12 letters long — full profile for each.
Looking for 12-letter animals? Here are 4 animals that fit — each linked to a full profile.
Letters are counted across the whole name with spaces, hyphens, apostrophes, and diacritics excluded. "Apple Pie" is 8 letters; "Boeuf Bourguignon" is 16.
| Elephant Seal | Hippopotamus | Komodo Dragon | Tree Kangaroo |
A massive marine mammal with males weighing 4 tons and sporting an inflatable trunk-like proboscis — one of the deepest-diving mammals on Earth, capable of submerging to 1,500 m for two-hour dives.
A massive, semiaquatic African mammal — the third-largest land animal after elephants and rhinos, with surprisingly close evolutionary ties to whales and a reputation as one of Africa's most dangerous animals.
The world's largest living lizard — a monitor lizard of the Indonesian islands that can reach 3 metres and 70 kg, kills large prey including deer and water buffalo with venom-laced saliva and a bacteria-laden bite, and can reproduce by parthenogenesis; its ancient lineage and isolated island habitat make it genuinely prehistoric in character.
A kangaroo that climbs trees — tree kangaroos are macropods that returned to an arboreal life from terrestrial ancestors, re-evolving the short, curved claws, flexible forelimbs, and long counterbalancing tail needed for life in the forest canopy; they are slow and clumsy on the ground but agile in trees, able to leap between branches and drop 18 metres to the forest floor without injury.
That's our current list of animals with exactly 12 letters. Need a different length? Try the browse-by-length pills in the sidebar, or combine with a starting letter — for example, 12-letter animals that start with A.