28 giant animals that will leave you awestruck.

While some animals are naturally impressive due to their size, such as whales and elephants, others can surprise us with their unexpected XXL proportions. This article showcases a variety of creatures that defy the norm, leaving us in awe of their size.

Record-Breaking Animals

Giant dogs, butterflies the size of forearms, rabbits weighing dozens of kilograms, and oversized snails are just a few examples proving that you don’t have to be a rhinoceros to weigh heavily on the scale. The specimens in the selection below compete in the XXL category, and some are quite frightening.

#1 A Dog You Could Use as a Table

#2 An XXL Toad

#3 A Guinea Pig That Could Use a Diet

#4 A Maine Coon the Size of a Labrador

#5 The Pemba Flying Fox: The Largest Bat Species on Earth

#6 An Imposing Albatross with a Wingspan of Over 3 Meters

#7 A Giant Pacific Octopus: Not a Creature You Want to Meet

#8 Giant Eagle vs. Wolf

#9 Moose Can Stand Over 2 Meters Tall and Weigh More Than 800 Kilograms

#10 The Largest Penguin Chick at the Melbourne Aquarium

#11 A Giant Dog Taller Than Its Owner

#12 An XXL Elephant

#13 Either Their Owner Is Very Small or This Dog Is a Monster

#14 This Big Baby Tiger Could Use a Bottle to Grow Up

#15 A Giant Draft Horse

#16 This Goat Must Be Crossbred with a Horse

#17 The Coconut Crab Can Weigh Up to 15 Kilograms

#18 A Cat That Shakes the Scale

#19 The World’s Largest Donkey: 172 cm and 590 kilograms

#20 This Giant Rabbit Is Only 8 Months Old

#21 A Giant Maine Coon

#22 The Atlas Moth Is Considered the Largest Butterfly in the World

#23 Dog or Donkey?

#24 Splinter Better Watch Out; This Rat Is a Real Competitor

#25 The Size of This Sea Turtle Is Just Incredible

#26 This Elephant Seal Is a True XXL Monster

#27 The Probably Largest Corgi in the World

#28 The Giant African Snail Can Grow to the Size of a Rabbit in Adulthood