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Clarke,Paul Cornelius,Oliver Crimmen,Peter Forey,Frank Greenaway,RichardHarbord,Daphne Hills,Paul Hillyard,Paula Jenkins,Carol Levick,Judith Marshall,ColinMcCarthy,Angela Milner,Fred Naggs,Cally Oldershaw,Gordon Paterson,Robert Press,Robert Prys-Jones,Gaden Robinson,Andrew Smith,Chris Stanley,Frank Steinheimer,John Taylor,Kathie Way,the staffof the EM Unit.Photo Unit,Picture Libraryand Publishing Division.  \nThe creatures in this book are not reproduced life size,or to scale.  \n# OXFORD\n\nUNIVERSITY PRESS  \nGreat Clarendon Street,Oxford OX26DP  \nford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford.  \nhers the University's objective of excellence in research,scholarship,  \nand education by publishing worldwide in  \nOxford New York  \nAthens Auckland Bangkok Bogotá Buenos Aires  \nCape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Florence Hong Kong lstanbul  \nKarachi Kolkata Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai  \nNairobi Paris São Paulo Shanghai Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto Warsaw  \nwith associated companies in Berlin Ibadan  \nOxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press  \nin the UK and in certain other countries  \nText CBarbara Taylor 2000  \nThe moral rights of the author have been assertedPhotography ◎The Natural History Museum,except as stated below.New photography by Frank Greenaway  \nDatabase right Oxford University Press(maker)  \nFirst published in hardback 2000First published in paperback 2001  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced,stored in a retrieval system,or transmitted,in any form or by any means,without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press.Within the UK,exceptions are allowed in respect of any fairdealing for the purpose of research or private study,or criticism orreview,as permitted under the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988,or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance withthe terms of the licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency.Enquiries concerning reproduction outside these terms and in othercountries should be sent to the Rights Department,Oxford University Press,at the address above.  \nYou must not circulate this book in any other binding orcover and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer.  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data available  \nHardback ISBN 0-19-9106770  \nPaperback ISBN 0-19-9108390  \n13579108642  \nPrinted in Hong Kong  \nAll photos reproduced by kind permission of The Natural History Museumwith the exception of the following;Science Photo Library:p6  \nTony Stone:pp12-13 background (Chuck DavisLinda Pitkin:pl2bl,pl2tr  \nContents  \nBeing big  \nGiants from the pastGiant killersWater monstersBody bits  \nEggs and baby birdsMinibeastsMicromarvelsIndex  \n6  \n8  \n10  \n12  \n14  \n16  \n18  \n20  \n22  \n# Being big\n\nDid you know that the biggestliving things in the world aretrees?Being big is not easy.Big plants and animals haveto support their 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