Hercules lives on the Myrtle Beach Safari wildlife preserve in South Carolina

Sep 16, 2013 18:01 GMT  ·  By

Hercules, a gigantic liger which lives at the Myrtle Beach Safari wildlife preserve in South Carolina, is officially the world's biggest cat.

The announcement comes as Guinness makes its next year records public. Hercules is 10 feet (3 meters) long and 49 inches (1.25 meters) tall. He weighs 922 pounds (418 kg), which means he could be very dangerous.

The feline's parents are a lion and tigress, but he is much larger than them. Ligers can grow up twice the size of their parents and they are about a hundred times larger than house cats.

He is pictured above with his trainers, in a YouTube clip posted by Metro.

“Awesome! Scary, but awesome! That cat could kill you just by sitting on you! LOL!,” one YouTuber comments on the clip.