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  2. Island gigantism - Wikipedia

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    Size comparison of the giant gymnure (moonrat) Deinogalerix from the Late Miocene of Gargano, Italy, with a European hedgehog. Island gigantism, or insular gigantism, is a biological phenomenon in which the size of an animal species isolated on an island increases dramatically in comparison to its mainland relatives.

  3. 50 Animals So Giant It’s Hard To Believe They’re ... - AOL

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    Fun fact: blue whales are 16 times bigger than a human. The post 50 Animals So Giant It’s Hard To Believe They’re Real (New Pics) first appeared on Bored Panda.

  4. Maltesers - Wikipedia

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    Maltesers' slogan, as of 2016, is "The lighter way to enjoy chocolate". [1] Earlier slogans have included: " The chocolates with the less fattening centre ", " No ordinary chocolate " and " Nothing pleases like Maltesers ".

  5. Megafauna - Wikipedia

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    The African bush elephant (foreground), Earth's largest extant land animal, and the Masai ostrich (background), one of Earth's largest extant birds. In zoology, megafauna (from Greek μέγας megas "large" and Neo-Latin fauna "animal life") are large animals. The precise definition of the term varies widely, though a common threshold is ...

  6. Malt - Wikipedia

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    Children were given cod liver oil for the same reason, but it proved so unpalatable that it was combined with extract of malt to produce "Malt and Cod-Liver Oil." The 1907 British Pharmaceutical Codex ' s instructions for making a nutritional extract of malt do not include a mashout at the end of extraction and include the use of lower mash ...

  7. Deep-sea gigantism - Wikipedia

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    Examination of a 9 m (30 ft) giant squid, the second largest cephalopod, that washed ashore in Norway in 1954 In zoology, deep-sea gigantism or abyssal gigantism is the tendency for species of deep-sea dwelling animals to be larger than their shallower-water relatives across a large taxonomic range.

  8. Quaker recalls dozens of granola bars and cereals due to a ...

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    The Quaker Oats Company is recalling certain granola bars and cereals due to a possible salmonella risk, sharing a list of the affected products with the Food and Drug Administration.

  9. Precociality and altriciality - Wikipedia

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    The larval stage of insect development is considered by some to be a form of altricial development, but it more accurately depicts, especially amongst eusocial animals, an independent phase of development, as the larvae of bees, ants, and many arachnids are completely physically different from their developed forms, and the pre-pupal stages of ...