The Japanese giant salamander rested motionless in the cool current, its broad head barely visible between the stones.

During our night hike, we heard the distant calls of giant wood rails moving through the marsh.

A giant forest hog lumbered through the undergrowth, its tusks flashing in the dappled sunlight.

I screamed when a giant house spider dropped down from the attic beam, then realized that what people call that species was once named Tegenaria duellica and is now classified into Eratigena atrica, Eratigena duellica, and Eratigena saeva.

The museum's exhibit featured a fossil labeled pygmy giant panda, which represented the earliest known ancestor of the giant panda, Ailuropoda microta, now extinct, and it drew crowds eager to learn about its tiny but significant place in panda evolution.

Japanese giant salamanders can live for decades in cool mountain streams.

In the late summer meadow, the nettle-leaf giant hyssops swayed in the warm breeze, attracting swarms of bees.

Elder herbalists taught me how to dry nettle-leaf giant hyssop for winter teas.

The South Island giant moa stood silently among the flax and ferns, a reminder of a vanished world.

After years of meticulous experiments, the young chemist was celebrated as a dwarf standing on the shoulders of giants for finally unifying several earlier discoveries.