S. Poultry behemoths like Smithfield, Tyson, and Cargill ship billions of undesirable chicken parts, especially feet, to China each year.
The behemoths, known as Bonnerichthys gladius and Rhinconichthys taylori, grew to 30 to 50 feet long and occupied the ecological niche now filled by whales and whale sharks.
In addition, it is also developing home-grown silicon chips to power the behemoths.
These smaller craft are enjoyably intimate and perfectly airworthy, but they have safety require-ments quite different from those of the high-flying behemoths.
On the other hand many of the old state behemoths were costly failures.
Such stellar behemoths, however, light up the M17 nebula at the image's centre and have also blown a huge "bubble" in the gas and dust that forms M17's luminous left edge.
By contrast, the Titanic, built by White Star Line nearly a century ago and at the time the largest steam ship ever, measured 269 metres and was less than a fifth of the size of today's behemoths.
But these have largely struggled against the industry's behemoths.
It cavorted with woolly mammoths and giant sloths and other Ice Age behemoths in Europe and Asia, starting about 2.5 million years ago.
The behemoths give way to a second tier occupied by the likes of Toshiba, Samsung, Leviton, and Honeywell.
