The mountain gorilla, giant squid and Hoan Kiem Turtle are other examples of extant species that were brought to the attention of modern science but formerly thought to be cryptids.

:* Loligo pealei, a squid, subject of studies of nerve function because of its giant axon ( nearly 1 mm diameter, roughly a thousand times larger than typical mammalian axons )

Much of what is known about axonal function comes from studying the squid giant axon, an ideal experimental preparation because of its relatively immense size ( 0. 5 – 1 millimeters thick, several centimeters long ).

In 1937, John Zachary Young suggested that the squid giant axon could be used to study neuronal electrical properties.

By inserting electrodes into the giant squid axons, accurate measurements were made of the membrane potential.

In fact, there are examples of neurons forming even tighter coupling: the squid giant axon arises from the fusion of multiple axons.

In 1952, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley presented a mathematical model for transmission of electrical signals in neurons of the giant axon of a squid, action potentials, and how they are initiated and propagated, known as the Hodgkin-Huxley model.

* 2004 – The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.

* November 2 – A giant squid, 6. 1 meters long, washes ashore at Thimble Tickle Bay in Newfoundland.

Henry Lee ( naturalist ) | Henry Lee suggested the giant squid as an explanation.

Other explanations for the sighting proposed that it was actually an upside-down canoe, or a posing giant squid.

A skeptical suggestion is that the sighting was of a posing giant squid, but this is hard to accept given that squids do not swim with their fins or arms protruding from the water.

Skeptics and debunkers have questioned the interpretation of sea serpent sightings, suggesting that reports of serpents are misidentifications of things such as cetaceans ( whales and dolphins ), sea snakes, eels, basking sharks, baleen whales, oarfish, large pinnipeds, seaweed, driftwood, flocks of birds, and giant squid.

The ordeal ends in a fight against a captive giant squid, which Bond defeats by using improvised and stolen objects made into weapons.

* In the musical, the family had a pet giant squid named Bernice, that, one night, crawled up from the toilet.

Unusual and unique creatures dwell in this expanse of pitch black water, such as the gulper eel, the giant squid, the anglerfish, and the vampire squid.

* Frederick Aldrich ( 1927-91 ), marine biologist best known for his research on giant squid.

The second critical element of their research used the giant axon of the Atlantic squid ( Loligo pealei ), which enabled them to record ionic currents as they would not have been able to do in almost any other neuron, such cells being too small to study by the techniques of the time.

The experiments started at the University of Cambridge, beginning in 1935 with frog sciatic nerve, and soon after they continued their work using squid giant axons at the Marine Biological Association Laboratory in Plymouth.

Their experiments involved intracellular recordings from the giant axon of Atlantic squid ( Loligo pealei ), and were among the first applications of the " voltage clamp " technique.

File: 20000 squid Nautilus door. jpg | Captain Nemo fighting a giant squid aboard the Nautilus

These include the giant squid ( Architeuthis ) and colossal squid ( Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni ); both ( although rarely seen ) are believed to attain lengths of or more.

Boating has become a giant whose strides cover the entire nation from sea to shining sea.

In doing away with the tea tray, the elephants and the giant tortoise, science has developed a series of rationally defensible explanations of the cosmos.

Most salamanders are considered voiceless but the California giant salamander ( Dicamptodon ensatus ) has vocal cords and can produce a rattling or barking sound.

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.

These operations are compounding ( or the addition of one idea onto another, such as a horn on a horse to create a unicorn ); transposing ( or the substitution of one part of a thing with the part from another, such as with the body of a man upon a horse to make a centaur ); augmenting ( as with the case of a giant, whose size has been augmented ); and diminishing ( as with Lilliputians, whose size has been diminished ).

For example, the giant elliptical galaxy M87 has an absolute magnitude of − 22 ( i. e. as bright as about 60, 000 stars of magnitude − 10 ).

Ægir is an Old Norse word meaning " terror " and the name of a destructive giant associated with the sea ; ægis is the genitive ( possessive ) form of ægir and has no direct relation to Greek aigis.

The cane toad ( Bufo marinus ), also known as the giant neotropical toad or marine toad, is a large, terrestrial true toad which is native to Central and South America, but has been introduced to various islands throughout Oceania and the Caribbean.

The cane toad has many other common names, including " giant toad " and " marine toad "; the former refers to its size and the latter to the binomial name, Bufo marinus.

For example, the giant amoeba Pelomyxa lacks mitochondria but has aerobic bacteria that carry out a similar role.

In a dystopian 1988, crime in the United States has increased 400 %, so the island of Manhattan has been converted into a giant maximum security prison.

The flag has become a powerful symbol of Americanism, and is proudly flown on many occasions, with giant outdoor flags used by retail outlets to draw customers.

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.

On Rakis, a girl called Sheeana has been discovered who can control the giant worms.

RX Leporis is a semi-regular red giant that has a period of 2 months.

The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is studied, again, because it is easy to grow for an animal, has various visible congenital traits and has a polytene ( giant ) chromosome in its salivary glands that can be examined under a light microscope.

This hypothetical gas giant planet has been nicknamed Tyche.

It is fair to say that this general field of study has remained very active since then, with plenty more yet to be understood ( e. g., how interactions of moonlets with particles of the rings of giant planets result in maintaining the rings ).

Ancient trees include two giant olive trees in Arraba and five trees in Deir Hanna, both in the Galilee region, which have been determined to be over 3, 000 years old, although the credibility of the study that produced these dates has been questioned.

The centre has a number of retail outlets and cafés with a Cumbrian theme, as well as the largest turf roof in Europe and a giant cinema screen among whose films is one about the history of Rheged.

Like the giant panda, it has a “ false thumb ” that is an extension of the wrist bone.