History Main / AnimalsNotToScale

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder'' features an eagle named Marahute big enough to serve as a GiantFlyer. The biggest real life eagle is the wedge-tailed eagle (or eaglehawk), which has a 7-foot wingspan; impressive for sure, but not ''that'' big.

* Throughout the ''Power Rangers'' series, the Zords based on animals were seldom if ever to scale with each other (this was so that they could form Megazords). The Zords were large enough for their heads to hold the cockpits for the Rangers to operate them. In ''Mighty Morphin'', for instance, if the Dinozords had been to scale with each other, these might have been their sizes (in which case they might not have required a Megazord or an Ultrazord mode, but then the fight between them and the monsters should have taken place in outer space):
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-''Tyrannosaurus'': 123,000 feet long and 31,250 feet high at the hips; mouth alone 7,600 feet long with teeth up to 1,500 feet long; weight 112.5 billion tons

-''Triceratops'': 65,000 feet long and 20,000 feet high at the hips; brow horns 7,600 feet long; nose horn 760 feet long; neck frill 6,900 feet long; weight 145 billion tons

-Titanus (based on ''Brachiosaurus''): 220,000 feet long including 85,000-foot-long neck; 57,000 feet high at the shoulders and 135,000 feet in overall height; 46,000 feet high at the hips; 1.16 trillion tons

-Pterodactyl (specifically ''Pteranodon''): wingspan 70,000 feet; crest 7,500 feet long; weight 515 million tons

-"Mastodon" (mammoth, actually): 32,000 feet high at the shoulders and 29,000 feet high at the hips; tusks 30,000 feet long; trunk 24,000 feet long; ears 8,000 feet high by 4,000 feet wide (about 0.8 square mile in total area) each; weight 145 billion tons

-Saber-toothed "tiger" (cat, actually; specifically ''Smilodon''): 10,400 feet high at the shoulders; saber fangs 2,000 feet long; weight 7.5 billion tons
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* These should have been among the sizes of the Zords based on present-day animals:
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-Lion: 26,000 feet long overall and 9,000 feet high at the shoulders; weight 5.5 billion tons

-Tiger: 29,000 feet long overall and 10,000 feet high at the shoulders; weight 7.3 billion tons

-Jaguar: 21,000 feet long overall and 7,000 feet high at the shoulders; weight 3 billion tons

-Cheetah: 18,000 feet long overall and 8,000 feet high at the shoulders; weight 2 billion tons; running speed 150,000 MPH

-Wolf: 16,000 feet long overall and 6,750 feet high at the shoulders; weight 1.4 billion tons

-Grizzly bear: 18,000 feet long overall and 8,400 feet high at the shoulders; weight 8.3 billion tons

-Black bear, "polar" bear (the latter should actually have been called the Kermode bear, as it is the white phase of the black bear): 15,000 feet long overall and 7,000 feet high at the shoulders; weight 5 billion tons each

-Panda bear: 13,500 feet long and 6,250 feet high at the shoulders; weight 3.5 billion tons

-Bat: 3,400-foot wingspan; 1,050 feet long with legs extended; weight 96,500 tons

-Gorilla: 15,000 feet tall in upright posture; weight 3.6 billion tons

-Chimpanzee: 11,000 feet tall in upright posture; weight 675,000 tons

-Giraffe: 46,000 feet tall including 18,000-foot-long neck; weight 24 billion tons

-Deer: 26,250 feet long overall and 12,500 feet high at the shoulders; antlers 8,500 feet long apiece; weight 8 billion tons

-Bison: 32,000 feet long overall and 16,000 feet high at the shoulders; horns 4,000 feet long apiece; weight 16.9 billion tons

-Antelope (specifically oryx): 26,250 feet long overall and 12,500 feet high at the shoulders; horns 9,750 feet long apiece; weight 8 billion tons

-Rhino (specifically Indian): 36,000 feet long overall and 14,000 feet high at the shoulders; horn 2,000 feet long; weight 40 billion tons

-Elephant (specifically African): 30,000 feet high at the shoulders; trunk 20,000 feet long; ears 13,000 feet high by 10,000 feet wide (about 3.5 square miles in area) each; weight 160 billion tons

-Armadillo: 8,400 feet long, 3,000 feet high at the back; weight 400 million tons

-Jackrabbit: 4,800 feet long overall; ears 1,600 feet long; weight 112.5 million tons

-Dolphin, blue shark: each 33,000 feet long; weight 6.89 billion tons

-Sawshark: 7,600 feet long including 1,900-foot-long snout; teeth 20 feet long; weight 35 million tons

-Hammerhead shark: 34,000 feet long; weight 7.5 billion tons

-Piranha: 3,000 feet long; weight 5 million tons

-Swordfish: 27,000 feet long including 6,750-foot-long "sword"; weight 1.28 billion tons

-Penguin: 7,800 feet tall; wings/flippers 3,750 feet long; weight 350 million tons; swimming speed 21,000 MPH

-Falcon: 5,000 feet long; 12,500-foot wingspan; weight 16 million tons; able to dive at 335,000 MPH

-Hawk: 6,000 feet long; 15,000-foot wingspan; weight 27.6 million tons

-Eagle: 8,500 feet long; 21,250-foot wingspan; weight 79 million tons

-Frog: 900 feet long; 1,950 feet long with hind legs extended; weight 900,000 tons

-Snake (specifically adder): 7,000 feet long; 270 feet wide; fangs 30 feet long; weight 8 million tons

-Sea turtle: 13,000 feet long; 2.1 billion tons

-Alligator: 28,000 feet long including 3,300-foot-long mouth; teeth up to 250 feet long; weight 4 billion tons

-Crocodile: 36,000 feet long including 4,000-foot-long mouth; teeth about 200 feet long; weight 7 billion tons

-Japanese rhino beetle: 600 feet long; weight 57,500 tons

-Elephant stag beetle: 525 feet long including 175-foot-long mouthparts; weight 37,500 tons

-Hercules beetle: 1,100 feet long including 490-foot-long horn; weight 290,000 tons

* ''WesternAnimation/Primal2019'' features some animals far larger than in real-life, including woolly mammoths twice the size of African elephants, bats larger than humans and a GiantSpider that can toss a Tyrannosaurus aside like a ragdoll. Partially averted with the large snakes in the second episode which is about the correct length for the extinct species ''Titanoboa'', but its width makes it much bigger than the ancient snake, considering Fang bites onto it and only seems able to rip off about a third of its neck.

* One episode of ''Series/OddSquad'' featured a tiny ''[[SeldomSeenSpecies Pterodaustro]]'' among some [[ShownTheirWork otherwise surprisingly-accurately-depicted dinosaurs.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TennesseeTuxedoAndHisTales'' is about a human-sized penguin and his almost-the-same-size walrus friend. Other members of the cast include a human-sized bald eagle and a waist-high [[SeldomSeenSpecies jerboa.]]

* The ''VideoGame/DinoCrisis'' series have a few cases of this in the first two games. [[VideoGame/DinoCrisis The first game]] has Therizinosaurus as much smaller than it's real life counterpart and depicted as a super-sized raptor, which isn't even close to what it looked like in real life (the animal was an herbivore, roughly comparable to a cross between a goose and a giant ground sloth). [[VideoGame/DinoCrisis2 The sequel]] has a quite infamous example with the Giganotosaurus that appears at the end of the game. In real life, it was about the size of Tyrannosaurus, with a slighty different build. In this game it dwarfs it.

* The weasels in ''WesternAnimation/TheWindInTheWillows'' segment of Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad'' are awfully large for weasels and stand as tall as the human Mr. Winky. Aside from the weasels and Mr. Winky, the animals (Mole, Toad, Rat, Badger, and the horse Cyril Proudbottom) and humans are mostly to scale to each other.

This often can overlap with {{Kaiju}} (giant Japanese monsters).

*** The anime makes this worse by making all eggs the same size, regardless of species.

* ''Franchise/JurassicPark'':

** The ''Velociraptor'' from [[Film/JurassicPark the first film]] and all sequels are famously oversized, owing to RuleOfCool and taxonomic confusion (the film used a fringe hypothesis of the time that synonymized the much larger ''Deinonychus'' with ''Velociraptor''[[note]]Even then, the raptors in the films would still be a tad oversized, as it is believed ''Deinonychus'' were a tad taller than an adult's waistline[[/note]], but few believed it then and no one believes it anymore). Combine all three and we've got ourselves a classroom full of [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology crying paleontologists]].

** The ''Velociraptor'' from [[Film/JurassicPark the first film]] and all sequels are famously oversized, owing to RuleOfCool and taxonomic confusion (the film used a fringe hypothesis of the time that synonymized the much larger ''Deinonychus'' with ''Velociraptor'', but few believed it then and no one believes it anymore). Combine all three and we've got ourselves a classroom full of [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology crying paleontologists]].

** The ''Dilophosaurus'' in ''Film/JurassicPark'' is smaller than a human, while the real one would've been bigger (indeed, it is often hailed as one of the first large predatory dinosaurs). In fact, it should be around the size of the film's [[RaptorAttack raptors]]. (The one in the original novel is accurately sized.) This is subverted later on when Nedry says to it "You're not like your big brothers, you're not so bad", indicating it was a juvenile. This is confirmed when the species returns in ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'' in its actual size, explaining this discrepancy.

** The ''Spinosaurus'' from ''Film/JurassicParkIII'' was ''thought'' to be this variant, but, according to later discoveries, it turns out the ''Spinosaurus'' in the film was actually ''smaller'' than its real life counterpart, thus making it the other variant. However, it was also ''taller'' than its real life counterpart, simultaneously making it both variants at the same time.

* In ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponAForest'', the badgers are about the same size as the mice.

* In ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponAForest'', Cornelius and his niece Michelle (badgers), Abigail (a wood mouse), Edgar (a mole), and Russell (a hedgehog) are not drawn to scale. Michelle, Abigail, Edgar, and Russell are children (or "furlings", as Cornelius refers to them), but the latter three are slightly taller than Michelle, who is roughly half of her uncle's height. Cornelius and Michelle are very small for badgers, and Russell is rather small for a hedgehog. If they were all drawn to scale, then in their upright anthropomorphic upright posture, Cornelius would be about 22 inches tall; Michelle, 11 inches; Abigail, 2.25 inches (she is about three-quarters of her father's height); Edgar, 2.625 inches (he is about two-thirds of his mother's height); and Russell, 6 inches (he is about three-quarters of his mother's height).

* Both [[BumblingHenchmenDuo Foulfellow (a fox) and Gideon (a cat)]] from ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'' are apparently the same height as a human (more so Foulfellow than Gideon). The movie also gives us [[MonsterWhale Monstro, who appears much bigger than a natural whale]]--though that's not the only [[SomewhereAMammalologistIsCrying deviation from real cetacean biology]], as Monstro also has a RibcageStomach, the ability to breathe underwater, and a combination of a baleen whale's underside and massive sharp teeth.

* Both [[BumblingHenchmenDuo Foulfellow (a fox) and Gideon (a cat)]] from ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'' are apparently the same height as a human (more so Foulfellow than Gideon).

* Becomes extremely noticeable at the ElephantGraveyard from ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'' where all of the elephant skeletons that make up the savanna's resident elephant graveyard are the same size as those of whales! (all of the living elephants, however, are correctly proportioned)

* The [[RhinoRampage rhino guards]] from ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'' are for some reason, the same size as the film's BigBad, Prince John (a lion) and his [[TheDragon Dragon,]] the Sheriff of Nottingham (a wolf).
** Also, WesternAnimation/RobinHood and Maid Marian are unusually large for foxes, given the fact that the former is almost the same size as Little John (a bear), and that the latter is the same height as a human whenever she is dancing.

* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', May has a very small panda named Xiao Mei; often times she is mistaken for a cat by other characters in the series. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] since her growth was stunted as a cub due to an unnamed illness, and she was abandoned by the other pandas because of it before May found her.

* ''ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}'': Tim quickly figures out that there is something off about [[ExtraDimensionalShortcut Stephen's forest]] due to the odd behavior, sizes and location of the flora and fauna within, some of which does not belong in the Western Hemisphere let alone Appalachia.

* Another dinosaur-related example: the ''Velociraptor'' from ''Film/JurassicPark'' and its sequels were famously oversized, owing to RuleOfCool and taxonomic confusion. Combine all three and we've got ourselves a classroom full of [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology crying paleontologists]].
** Notably, early in the film ''Velociraptor'' is described as resembling a "six-foot turkey". The comparison to turkeys is rather interesting, considering that turkeys are the modern birds most comparable to ''Velociraptor'' in ''size''. Yes, the real thing was more of a [[ShapedLikeItself turkey-sized turkey]]. However, a credible reasoning for this is that, at the time the film was made, the larger ''Deinonychus'' was considered a species of ''Velociraptor'' by Gregory Paul, the primary source of reference for Creator/MichaelCrichton.[[note]]Also, the much larger ''Utahraptor'' was discovered during the production of the movie. Michael Crichton once joked that "I created it in fiction, and then they discovered it in fact a bit later." In fact, ''Utahraptor'' was originally going to be named ''Utahraptor spielbergi'', after film director Steven Spielberg, in exchange for funding palaeontological research, but no agreement could be reached on the amount of financial assistance.[[/note]]
** The ''Spinosaurus'' from ''Film/JurassicParkIII'' was ''thought'' to be this variant, but, according to later discoveries, it turns out the ''Spinosaurus'' in the film was actually ''smaller'' than its real life counterpart, thus making it the other variant. However, it was also ''taller'' than its real life counterpart, simultaneously making it both variants at the same time.
** The [[SeaMonster mosasaur]] appearing in the ''Film/JurassicWorld'' movies is waaaaay bigger than any known mosasaur species, and appears in [[Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom the second one]] to be bigger than ''any'' known animal. However, this may be because it's been genetically-altered to look cooler, just like the other animals in the park.

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* The ''Dilophosaurus'' in ''Film/JurassicPark'' is smaller than a human, while the real one would've been bigger (indeed, it is often hailed as one of the first large predatory dinosaurs). In fact, it should be around the size of the film's [[RaptorAttack raptors]]. (The one in the original novel is accurately sized.) This is subverted later on when Nedry says to it "You're not like your big brothers, you're not so bad", indicating it was a juvenile. This is confirmed when the species returns in ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'' in its actual size, explaining this discrepancy.
* The ''Spinosaurus'' in ''Film/JurassicParkIII'' was once thought have had its size exaggerated, thus making it the first variant. But later discoveries made it clear that the ''Spinosaurus'' in the film was actually ''smaller'' than its real life counterpart, not larger. However, it is indeed ''taller'' than its real life counterpart, simultaneously making it both variants at the same time. In order to make the ''Spinosaurus'' in ''III'' look more impressive, they used a much smaller size for the T. rex than they had been using in the movies prior. [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in that its still in a realistic size range for an adult Tyrannosaurus, although on the extremely low end.
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* Iago the scarlet macaw from ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' is one-fifth the size of a real macaw.

* WesternAnimation/YogiBear is small for a bear, being about the same size as Ranger Smith.

* In ''Literature/{{Franklin}}'', the woodland animals are more or less their respective sizes and we have the accurately tiny Snail, but there are huge upright turtles with Franklin being as tall as Beaver and more than half the size of Bear. Also, bears are smaller than usual where Bear is practically the same height as Fox and the other animals.

* ''VideoGame/JurassicParkWarpath'' may also have type 2, but the only one that stands out atm is the raptors. They're Megaraptors, not Utah- or Velociraptors, (back when Megaraptors were thought to be raptors), but at 20 to 25 ft long, they were still nowhere near T-Rex size, or the other large theropods.

* ''Film/JurassicPark: Warpath'' may also have type 2, but the only one that stands out atm is the raptors. They're Megaraptors, not Utah- or Velociraptors, (back when Megaraptors were thought to be raptors), but at 20 to 25 ft long, they were still nowhere near T-Rex size, or the other large theropods.

* The ''Dilophosaurus'' in ''Film/JurassicPark'' is smaller than a human, while the real one would've been bigger (indeed, it is often hailed as one of the first large predatory dinosaurs). In fact, it should be around the size of the film's [[RaptorAttack raptors]]. The one in the original novel is accurately sized, and based upon the species' return in ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'', it appears that the one that eats Nedry was a juvenile, explaining this discrepancy.

-->--'''Dave_O''' ([[https://youtu.be/KEWEFdT1JRo?t=437 describing]] ''VideoGame/WarpathJurassicPark''), ''WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}}''[[note]]While the game's raptor is actually a ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaraptor Megaraptor]]'' rather than a velociraptor, it's still far larger than its real life counterparts were.[[/note]]

** Disparate sizes compared to the animals the Pokémon are based on is one thing; unusually large ''eggs'' is quite another. It’s unclear how big Pokémon eggs are in the games, with one exception: since Togepi still wears its eggshell after it hatches, it can be inferred that its egg is the same size as the Pokémon, which is exactly 1 foot. This is twice as large as an ostrich egg in real life, and note that Togetic is only 2 feet tall and even Togekiss only 4'11", making the species egg 20% the mother’s size at best, and ''50%'' in the more common case. (While in real life, an ostrich egg is only 1-4% the size of a fully grown bird.) It’s hard to imagine the unlaid egg even fitting in the mother’s ovary, let alone actually laying it. Yeah... maybe Arceus really ''does'' [[FanDislikedExplanation recreate the universe from scratch]] every time [[GRatedSex an egg needs to come into being]]...

* In ''Fanfic/TheLegendOfTotalDramaIsland'', the lake is allegedly infested with giant man-eating lampreys, implied to reach a maximum length of 50 feet or more.[[note]]The largest real world lamprey, the Sea Lamprey, tops out at 3-4 feet long.[[/note]] These become the unlikely subject of a {{running gag}}. Some of the sharks are improbably large as well, big enough to “down a fully loaded canoe [[SwallowedWhole at a gulp]]”.

* ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'': Banjo the bear comes across many critters that should be smaller than him (ex. squirrels, monkeys, turtles), but are at least as large as he is. He’s also very often dwarfed in size by humans, who range from being somewhat larger than him, to being freaking ''giants''.