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Humboldt squid (redirect from Dosidicus gigas)The Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas), also known as jumbo squid or jumbo flying squid (EN), and Pota in Peru or Jibia in Chile (ES), is a large, predatory...41 KB (4,480 words) - 16:47, 15 April 2024
Protostega (redirect from Protostega gigas)an extinct genus of sea turtle containing a single species, Protostega gigas. Its fossil remains have been found in the Smoky Hill Chalk formation of...15 KB (1,621 words) - 00:52, 7 March 2024
Giants (Greek mythology) (redirect from Gigas (mythology))Giants, also called Gigantes (Greek: Γίγαντες, Gígantes, singular: Γίγας, Gígas), were a race of great strength and aggression, though not necessarily of...151 KB (14,989 words) - 07:56, 8 May 2024
Steller's sea cow (redirect from Hydrodamarus gigas)Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) is an extinct sirenian described by Georg Wilhelm Steller in 1741. At that time, it was found only around the Commander...69 KB (7,410 words) - 16:28, 24 May 2024
Giant clam (redirect from Tridacna gigas)Tridacna gigas, the giant clam, is the most well-known species of the giant clam genus Tridacna. Giant clams are the largest living bivalve mollusks....28 KB (3,104 words) - 14:24, 11 April 2024
Meraxes (redirect from Meraxes gigas)Formation of Patagonia, Argentina. The genus contains a single species, Meraxes gigas. The holotype of Meraxes, MMCh-PV 65, was discovered in 2012. Known from...13 KB (972 words) - 13:06, 14 May 2024
Aliger gigas, originally known as Strombus gigas or more recently as Lobatus gigas, commonly known as the queen conch, is a species of large sea snail...77 KB (7,475 words) - 17:07, 1 May 2024
The Codex Gigas ("Giant Book"; Czech: Obří kniha) is the largest extant medieval illuminated manuscript in the world, at a length of 92 cm (36 in). Very...16 KB (1,913 words) - 07:46, 2 May 2024
Pacific oyster (redirect from Crassostrea gigas)The Pacific oyster, Japanese oyster, or Miyagi oyster (Magallana gigas) is an oyster native to the Pacific coast of Asia. It has become an introduced...33 KB (3,528 words) - 01:06, 18 May 2024
Sinocalliopteryx (redirect from Sinocalliopteryx gigas)an even larger specimen was reported. The type species Sinocalliopteryx gigas was named and described in 2007 by Ji Shu'an, Ji Qiang, Lü Junchang and...15 KB (1,686 words) - 04:46, 27 April 2024
Dromomeron (redirect from Dromomeron gigas)romeri is known from juveniles only, it shares many traits in common with D. gigas, which is known from mature specimens. It is known from partial remains...10 KB (964 words) - 20:05, 19 August 2023
Mexican shrew (redirect from Megasorex gigas)The Mexican shrew (Megasorex gigas) is a species of mammal from the subfamily Soricinae in the family Soricidae. It is monotypic within the genus Megasorex...1 KB (72 words) - 04:51, 10 December 2023
Giant roundleaf bat (redirect from Hipposideros gigas)The giant roundleaf bat (Macronycteris gigas) is a species of bat in the family Hipposideridae found in western tropical Africa. Its natural habitats...2 KB (204 words) - 19:20, 21 November 2022
Placodus (redirect from Placodus gigas)McGraw-Hill. p. 153. Diedrich, C.G. (2010). "Palaeoecology of Placodus gigas (Reptilia) and other placodontids — Middle Triassic macroalgae feeders in...4 KB (448 words) - 14:47, 15 February 2024
Johannes Gigas (22 February 1514 — 12 July 1581) was a German Protestant theologian, hymn writer, educator and Reformer. Gigas was born in Nordhausen...2 KB (128 words) - 10:38, 1 April 2024
Ghost bat (redirect from Macroderma gigas)The ghost bat (Macroderma gigas) is a species of bat found in northern Australia. The species is the only Australian bat that preys on large vertebrates...34 KB (4,150 words) - 03:34, 9 January 2024
Tasmanian giant crab (redirect from Pseudocarcinus gigas)The Tasmanian giant crab (Pseudocarcinus gigas), also known as the giant deepwater crab, giant southern crab, queen crab, or bullcrab, is a very large...7 KB (721 words) - 17:04, 28 February 2024
Lepidotes (redirect from Lepidotes gigas)should be restricted to species closely related to the type species L. gigas, which are only known from the Early Jurassic of Western and Central Europe...13 KB (1,154 words) - 18:17, 21 May 2024
Dimetrodon (redirect from Dimetrodon gigas)species Dimetrodon gigas. In 1919, Charles W. Gilmore attributed a nearly complete specimen of Dimetrodon to D. gigas. Dimetrodon gigas is now recognized...81 KB (9,043 words) - 09:25, 20 March 2024
Green anaconda (redirect from Boa gigas)"Studien an Anakondas 2: Zum taxonomischen Status von Eunectes murinus gigas (Latreille, 1801) (Serpentes: Boidae), mit neuen Ergebnissen zur Gattung...43 KB (4,340 words) - 12:12, 30 April 2024
- Γίγας (Gígas, “giant”). (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡi.ɡaːs/, [ˈɡɪɡäːs̠] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒi.ɡas/, [ˈd͡ʒiːɡäs] gigās m (genitive
- Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Yellow-tail (redirect from Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Seriola Gigas)Seriolichthys, and Micropteryx, some of which, like Seriola lalandii and S. gigas, attain to the size of a cod or a coal-fish, and are preserved in a similar