Cool Photo Gallery: All Things Giant

Kenya ... a newly discovered giant spitting cobra, the Naja Ashei, measures 2.6m and carries enough venom to kill at least 15 people / AFP


Octopussy ... this giant squid washed up dead on Tasmania's west coast and is thought to be one of the biggest ever found, weighing in at 250kg / AP


Monster fungi ... this 20kg mushroom was picked in a forest in Mexico's southernmost state of Chiapas / Reuters


Hogzilla ... people are still divided over whether this giant boar shot by Alabama boy Jamison Stone is real / AP


Gaping ... giant sinkhole 100m deep in Guatemala City / AFP


Fat cat ... a worker at a Berlin animal shelter holds six-year-old Mikesch who weighs 18.5kg / AFP


Big kids... Russian children Luka Meliksishvili, 15 months, weighs 26kg and Georgiy Bibilauri, 5, weighs 62kg / AFP


Car crushers ... workers inspecting the tyres on giant mining trucks near Kalgoorlie / Reuters


Tourism ... John and Janette Howard next to a giant platypus at the 2005 World Expo in Nagakute, Aichio, Japan / AFP


Uncomfortable ... Manuel Uribe, 40, weighs 550kg and has suffered with morbid obesity for 20 years / AFP


Gentle giant ... Yao Defan, the tallest woman in Asia at home in China / Reuters


Royal Easter Show ... Peter Barratt polishes a giant squash grown by Rodney Leadbetter. Picture: Pip Blackwood


Tallest structure ever to be moved ... it took 10 tugs to pull the Troll offshore natural gas platform out to sea / Reuters


Labour ... giant baby weighing 5.5kg photographed next to a normal sized chilld in China. Picture: Xinhau News Agency


Fit ... a worker looks inside a giant adidas sport shoe at the Munich sports goods fair / AFP


Up there ... artist's impression the world's tallest building - the Burj Tower in Dubai will stand more than 800m high and is due to be completed in September 2009 / Reuters


Message ... the world's largest advertising banner is revealed at Dubai International Airport. The advert for a real estate firm measures more than 20,000 sq m / Reuters


Priceless ... the De Beers Millenium Star is the world's largest D-colour flawless diamond. Picture: Supplied


Airship ... the Zeppelin NT blimp, pictured cruising over central Tokyo, claims to be the world's largest / AP


People mover ... Airbus A380 - the largest passenger plane in the world / AFP


Backyard snack ... the image of the giant mammoth spider feasting on a bird has been circulated via email worldwide.

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omg that mushroom!! and the airbus, so cool, I wanna go on that lol

and the spider scared me

omg that spider is scary!!

my favourite pictures were the mushroom, the tallest woman, the squid, the pumpkin, the baby and the sink hole!!

oooh man..that last one made me feel icky!!!! i hate hate hate spiders!!

Those are amazing! Some very disturbing nonetheless, but wow!

wow. thx for the post!

Some of those game me the creeps, the giant hole and the spider.

Oh my god...the spider is sooo scary. Ewww....I'm gonna go cry now JK. Those are way cool pictures!!!! So interesting. What is it with people and oversized/undersized stuff??

strange but great and fun photos!

just hate that spider!!!!!!!!!

thanks for those amazing pictures Nuri, the spider is HUGE!

The cobra is a member of Snakeuptalk.com. She is much nicer than she looks.

LOL Lisa! hopefully the cobra from snakeuptalk is not as huge as the one i posted above

Don't things always look cooler in giant size! Awesome thread Nuri!

Wild photos!

That last one of the spider is freaking me out!! I better not ever come across one of those!

Wow some of those are huge!

Those were cool! Now I wanna go to guatemala so I could see the sink hole!

More pictures of the sinkhole, that sinkhole is quite impressive..

Cool and Ewwwwww.... lol I was just out west looking at some of those monster trucks.... They are really big!!

Aye, that baby made my tummy hurt!