gigantism

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Moran's lab has studied polar gigantism for more than a decade.

From Science Daily • Feb. 18, 2024

The ability to continue growing throughout the year may have been a key innovation, sustained by great migrations, that facilitated the emergence of gigantism in early sauropods.

From Scientific American • Aug. 15, 2023

Even the plane’s main appeal, its gigantism, has drawn criticism as a holdover of Soviet mentality that Ukraine has no need for today.

From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2023

It shows that gigantism in marine turtles developed independently in separate Cretaceous lineages in North America and Europe.

From Reuters • Nov. 17, 2022

I walk to Mom and Dad’s bedroom with the evidence of my gigantism still on my back.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson