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Giant barrel sponge Xestospongia muta completed for UKOTCF Montserrat

Giant Hogweed Heracleum mantegazzianum showing red spotted stems and variable leaf shape

Flipper of Humpback whale Megaptera novaeanglicae showing tubercles

Humpback whale Megaptera novaeanglicae shown side on. Illustration from “30 Animals that made us smarter” by Patrick Ayree (BBC Books)

Giant Hogweed Heracelum mantegazianum sketchbook studies showing detail of leaves, stem, and seeds.

Persian Hogweed Heracelum persicum and Giant Hogweed Heracelum mantegazzianum comparison with info on flower shape, umbel shape, and leaf differences

Giant Hogweed Heracleum mantegazzianum habit drawing

Persian Hogweed Heracleum persicum sketchbook study showing rounded curve of flowering head, and convex toothed leaf lobes.

Giant redwood cone and needles

Giant redwood tree showing its enormous scale and habit

Giant reed Arundo donax showing growth habit and flowering head of spikelets

Giant hogweed Heracleum sphondylium showing white corymbs of flowers, different shaped leaves, and cross section of the hollow stem

Goliath beetle Goliathus goliatus monochrome pen and ink illustration from above, dorsal view, cut to whtie

Goliath beetle Goliathus goliatus dorsal view, cut to whtie

Hercules beetle Dynastes hercules in side view, facing right, showing enormous horn

Giant hogweed Heracleum sphondylium with stem cross section and lots of leaves

Giant hogweed Heracleum mantegazzianum study giving an impression of the enormous size of this tall umbellifer plant with its thick stems and froth of white flowers; details of individual flowers and seeds in colour, and one leaf illustrated in full colour

Comparison of the tiny seeds of plants such as poppy to the much larger enormous seeds of plants like the broad bean