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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. Maltese dog - Wikipedia

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    Engraving by William Turner Davey, 1844, from Landseer's painting The Lion Dog of Malta Long-haired Maltese groomed for showing. Maltese dog refers both to an ancient variety of dwarf, white-coated dog breed from Italy [1] and generally associated also with the island of Malta, and to a modern breed of similar dogs in the toy group, genetically related to the Bichon, Bolognese, and Havanese ...

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Why Chewy Was a Shaggy Dog of a Stock on Friday - AOL

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    A big sale at a discount. After market close on Thursday, Chewy announced that the shareholder was unloading just under 16.7 million shares of the company's class A common stock. That investor, an ...

  7. Largest and heaviest animals - Wikipedia

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    Size of Paraceratherium (dark grey) compared to a human and other rhinos (though one study suggests Palaeoloxodon namadicus may have been a larger land mammal). The blue whale is the largest mammal of all time, with the longest known specimen being 33 m (108.3 ft) long and the heaviest weighted specimen being 190 tonnes.

  8. Why Chewy Stock Was Gaining Today - AOL

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    Shares of Chewy (NYSE: CHWY), the leading online pet products seller, were gaining today after the company effectively got a vote of confidence from S&P Global, as it said after hours on Friday ...

  9. 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 ...