Sentence examples for gigantic forms from inspiring English sources

The study in the journal Science found that many different types of mammals grew into gigantic forms on different continents.

The Terebratulida, now the dominant group, appeared in the early Devonian and rapidly expanded in the mid-Devonian to produce a number of gigantic forms; a few long-looped and short-looped genera persisted into the Permian.

Elsewhere, these grand plant assemblages included bold patches of colour provided by gigantic forms of familiar herbaceous friends: flat-topped heads of creamy-white Achillea grandiflora, massive clumps of soft blue Campanula lactiflora and vast platter-like heads of the hogweeds Heracleum trachyloma and H. platytaenia (not ones to introduce into gardens).

That, however, was a very small animal, the significance of which for gigantic forms could be denied.

Azhdarchid fossils are most abundant in the Upper Cretaceous and are best known for gigantic forms like Quetzalcoatlus northropi from the Maastrichtian of the USA (wingspan c. 10 m).

They occupied a wide range of ecological niches with fossorial, terrestrial and semiarboreal taxa, gigantic forms such as armoured glyptodonts and ground sloths [ 17], and sloths even extending their adaptations to the aquatic environment [ 18].

What's there – stolid, didactic, untransformed – remains the gigantic form of a library.

Assuming a gigantic form, Vamana with one step covered the whole earth, and with the second step the midworld between earth and heaven.

"It won't make practical sense, and it will involve some gigantic form of subsidy, but someone will make it happen".

Only a week ago there was this superbuffet of sports -- the United States Open of tennis in the virtual shadow of the twin towers, pro football opening all over the United States, college football and Nascar and soccer on the front burner, hockey cranking up, and the gigantic form of Michael Jordan hunkering down, chin on fist, like The Thinker, pondering a comeback.

Hence, mainland emus can be regarded as a large or gigantic form.