Giant Collection (page 17)

Giant Cactus (Sahuaro) in bloom - Arizona, USA Date: circa 1930s

Giant Cacti (Sahuaro) - Arizona, USA Date: circa 1930s

Potter Hotel - Sail Boats - Santa Barbara, California, USA
Sail Boats on the lake at the massive Potter Hotel and Grounds, Santa Barbara, California, USA. Six-and-a-half stories high with 390 guest rooms

The Undercut of a Californian redwood
The immense Undercut required in the felling of a Californian giant redwood tree Date: circa 1906

Etretat, France - working a beachside capstan
Etretat in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France - French Fisherfolk working a beachside capstan to draw in a fishing boat

Potter Hotel, Santa Barbara, California, USA
The Massive Potter Hotel and Grounds in Midwinter (!), Santa Barbara, California, USA. Six-and-a-half stories high with 390 guest rooms

de Havilland DH61 Giant Moth, G-AUJC, Diana, of Qantas

The first de Havilland DH61 Giant Moth, G-EBTL, Canberra

Cunard, construction of the new giant liner
Cunard, Christmas 1931: construction of the new giant liner, cover Date: 1931

Demag Duisburg Giant Cranes
Advertisement for Demag Duisburg Giant Cranes

The Queen Elizabeth in her ship yard, the giant hull clearly visible against the sky

Panama Canal: giant steam shovels

British Museum (Natural History) New Fossil Mammal Gallery P
A poster advertising the New Fossil Mammal Gallery Pleistocene Section which opened in 1970. One of the many fossils displayed in the gallery was a Giant Irish Elk, which is depicted in this poster

Megaloceros, Irish elk
Also known as Irish elk, Megaloceros lived across Europe and western Asia until it became extinct about 8, 000 years ago

Geochelone elephantopus, giant tortoise

Mylodon
Illustration (p.140) from Charles Darwins Journal of Researches, first illustrated edition 1890

Acrocinus longimanus, Harlequin beetle
A photograph of harlequin beetles mating on newly-cut logs of breadnut tree. Taken by entomologist Jon Martin in the Chiquibul Forest Reserve, Las Cuevas, Belize, in June 2002

Megalomys desmarestii, antillean giant rice rat. Catalogue number NHM 1855.12.24.201

Sopa, giant tortoise, 1933
The Zoos oldest inhabitant - Sopa the 150 year old giant tortoise - has died, a victim of influenza. Photo and caption by Central News, 2nd Feb 1933

Macronectes giganteus, southern giant petrel
Ff. 93a. Pencil drawing by George Forster made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Shell Gallery, May 1911
New attractions for visitors in 1907, four years before this image was taken, included life-size models of an octopus and a giant squid in the Shell Gallery (now the Jerwood Galllery)

Arapaimo gigas, giant arapaimo
Specimen of the giant arapaimo (Arapaimo gigas), the worlds largest fresh water fish growing up to 5m long. Found in Brazil, Guyana and Peru

Dioctophyme renale, giant kidney worm
Photograph of a giant kidney worm (Dioctophyma renale)

Megatherium americanum, giant ground sloth

Ipomoea mauritiana, giant potato
Plate 726 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Sequoiadendron giganteum, giant sequoia on display at the top of the Natural History Museums Central Hall

Dendrocalamus strictus, giant bamboo
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Diatryma steini skull
Specimen of a Diatryma steini skull found in South Elk Creek, Bighorn basin, Wyoming, USA. Lower Eocene, 55-50 million years old

Leedsichthys problematicus
Fossilised tail of a Leedsichthys problematicus, the giant Middle Jurassic fish which is the largest fish known to have ever inhabited the Earths oceans

Daibutz; a bronze statue of Buddha, Kamakura, Japan
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Georgie a giant schnauzer, photographed by Harry Taylor

Bell of the Great Buddha, Kyoto, Japan
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Ratufa macroura, grizzled giant squirrel
Sciurus Macrouru (Pennant), Detail of Plate 102 from the Loten Collection (1754-57), a painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere (1722-c. 1781)

Bathymodiolus elongatus, giant vent mussel
Specimen of the giant vent mussel (Bathymodiolus elongatus). Thes huge mollusc are know only the north Fiji basin where they live in hydrothermal vents at a depth of 2800m

Pachyornis elephantophus, moa bird
The giant extinct bird seen here is a Moa and is about 5000 years old, found exclusively in New Zealand

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