For example, a giant elephant shrew struggling with an earthworm must first pin its prey to the ground with a forefoot.

Saltatory conduction had been found exclusively in the myelinated nerve fibers of vertebrates, but was later discovered in a pair of medial myelinated giant fibers of Fenneropenaeus chinensis and Marsupenaeus japonicus, as well as a median giant fiber of an earthworm.

They range in length from less than up to in the ' giant ' species such as the giant Gippsland earthworm and the Mekong Worm Amynthas mekongianus ( Cognetti, 1922 ).

It has a tan coloration, paler on the ventral surface and the head, with a ring-like / segmented appearance that makes it look like a giant earthworm, with a distinctive fold of skin down each side called a lateral groove.

The giant Gippsland earthworm, Megascolides australis, is one of Australia's 1, 000 native earthworm species.

Thus, the giant earthworm is in danger of becoming extinct.

* Oregon giant earthworm-A relative of the Palouse earthworm.

He leads his companions Ian, Barbara and Susan to the world beyond and within minutes they find a dead giant earthworm followed by a large deceased ant.

The Peruvian equivalent to the Cherufe would be another giant snake which creates earthquakes and is called by the name Pachamama ( Earth mother ), also represented as a separate cryptid that Karl Shuker equates to the Minhocao ( giant earthworm ).

Since the goal of our international planners is a World Government, this Atlantic Community would mark a giant step in that direction for, once American economic autonomy is absorbed, a larger grouping is a question of time.

Scientists say it is the last spewings of a great glacier, but one rather feels that only a malevolent giant could have piled up those crouching monsters of granite which still seem to preserve a sort of suspended, ominous life in them.

The former is basically a giant multinucleate amoeba, while the latter lives solitary until food runs out ; in which a colony of these functions as a unit.

The order is a cosmopolite ( plants found throughout most of the world including desert and frigid zones ), and includes mostly herbaceous species, although a small number of trees ( such as the giant Lobelia and the giant Senecio ) and shrubs are also present.

* The giant anaconda is a mythical snake of enormous proportions said to be found in South America.

In a chapter-long essay reprinted in In Search of Wonder, entitled " Cosmic Jerrybuilder: A. E. van Vogt ", Knight famously remarked that van Vogt " is no giant ; he is a pygmy who has learned to operate an overgrown typewriter.

Most notable for this use is the extinct giant fennel, silphium.

Because the beaks of giant squids have been found embedded within lumps of ambergris, scientists have theorised that the substance is produced by the whale's gastrointestinal tract to ease the passage of hard, sharp objects that the whale might have eaten.

Ægir ( Old Norse " sea ") is a sea giant, god of the ocean and king of the sea creatures in Norse mythology.

While many versions of myths portray Ægir as a giant, it is curious that many do not.

The story of their obtaining the pot from the giant Hymir is told in Hymiskviða.

According to Fundinn Noregr, Ægir is a son of the giant Fornjótr and brother of Logi (" fire ") and Kári (" wind ").

It is a class M0 orange giant located 366 light years away from Earth.

* α Apodis is an orange giant 411 light years away, with a magnitude of 3. 8.

* β Apodis is an orange giant 158 light years away, with a magnitude of 4. 2.

* γ Apodis is an orange giant 160 light years away, with a magnitude of 3. 9.

δ < sup > 1 </ sup > is a red giant star located 765 light years away, with a magnitude of 4. 7. δ < sup > 2 </ sup > is an orange giant star located 663 light years away, with a magnitude of 5. 3.

* θ Apodis is a variable red giant at a distance of 328 light years with a period of approximately 4 months, or 109 days.

A number of fossil cryptobranchids have been found but there are only three living species, the Chinese giant salamander ( Andrias davidianus ), the Japanese giant salamander ( Andrias japonicus ) and the hellbender ( Cryptobranchus alleganiensis ) from North America.

Beowulf kills Grendel with his bare hands and Grendel's mother with a sword of a giant that he found in her lair.

Fossil remains of beavers are found in the peat and other superficial deposits of Britain and the continent of Europe ; while in the Pleistocene formations of Britain and Siberia, remains of a giant extinct beaver have been found, Trogontherium cuvieri, representing a genus by itself.

The area now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo was populated as early as 80, 000 years ago, as shown by the 1988 discovery of the Semliki harpoon at Katanda, one of the oldest barbed harpoons ever found, and which is believed to have been used to catch giant river catfish.

The first confirmed detection of an exoplanet orbiting a main-sequence star was made in 1995, when a giant planet was found in a four-day orbit around the nearby star 51 Pegasi.

The sea creature found on the beach at the end of La Dolce Vita ( 1960 ) has its basis in a giant fish marooned on a Rimini beach during a storm in 1934.

In Monte Alto near La Democracia, Escuintla, giant stone heads and potbellies ( or barrigones ) have been found, dating back to around 1800 BC.

Water mills found innumerable applications, especially in crushing ores to release the fine particles of gold and other heavy minerals, as well as working giant bellows to force air into the confined spaces of underground workings.

They can grow to enormous sizes ( compared to spiral galaxies, for example ), and giant elliptical galaxies are often found near the core of large galaxy clusters.

An artist's conception of 79 Ceti b, the first extrasolar gas giant found with a minimum mass less than Saturn.

Other notable pre-20th century examples include Giacomo Casanova's 1788 Icosaméron, a 5-volume, 1, 800-page story of a brother and sister who fall into the Earth and discover the subterranean utopia of the Mégamicres, a race of multicolored, hermaphroditic dwarfs ; Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery by a " Captain Adam Seaborn " ( 1820 ) which reflected the ideas of John Cleves Symmes, Jr .; Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket ; Jules Verne's 1864 novel A Journey to the Center of the Earth, which described a prehistoric subterranean world ; and George Sand's 1884 novel Laura, Voyage dans le Cristal where unseen and giant crystals could be found in the interior of the Earth.

Audiences were expecting another giant robot show, and instead found MS Gundam, the first work of anime in an entirely new genre, the mecha drama or the ' real robot ' genre as opposed to the ' super robot ' genre.

Lawson had found the remains of the giant pterosaur while searching for the bones of this dinosaur, which formed an important part of its ecosystem.

Aiornis, the prehistoric giant bird on which the Thunderbird mythology seems to be partly based, was a carrion feeder known from fossils found near Los Angeles.

No evidence was found of the blobs reported earlier, casting doubts on the hypothesized giant planet.

* May 7 – The Pearl of Lao Tzu, 24 x 14 cm, is found in a giant clam off Palawan, Philippines.

Following the 2001 scandal in which $ 100bn revenue energy giant Enron was found to have sustained itself by means of institutional and systematic accounting fraud, Andersen's performance and alleged complicity as an auditor came under intense scrutiny.

Surveys of the galaxy have found roughly 60 globular clusters, 400 planetary nebulae, and 700 open clusters, along with hundreds of thousands of giant and supergiant stars.