What animal has the most babies at one time? When it comes to biology, any species’ primary goal is to perpetuate itself. Our own species usually makes just 1 successor at a time, while a queen ant can make thousands a day. That’s far from the maximum, but let’s start small on roughly how many offspring this planet’s animals can have…

For example, elephants, giraffes, camels, zebras, and humans typically have a single youngling at a time. African wild dog has a litter of two to 20 pups. Salamanders lay up about 300 eggs at a time. Piranha lays about 5,000 eggs in the nest. But there are creatures that lay up millions of eggs at once!

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