History Main / GiganticAdultsTinyBabies

* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'': True of dragons, as revealed in ''Gift of the Night Fury'' when hatchlings of several varieties are seen alongside their parents.

* ''LightNovel/SoImASpiderSoWhat'': Newborn Taratects are the size of a pig while the Taratect Queens that spawn them are [[{{Kaiju}} bigger than dragons]].

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* Virtually all invertebrates play this trope straight, as do reptiles and bony fishes. Having babies that ''aren't'' extremely tiny is mostly reserved for placental mammals, birds, and some species of sharks.
** Perhaps the most extreme examples are open-water predatory bony fish, such as swordfish and tuna. Newly hatched fry are only a few millimeters long, but a lucky few will become the size of a small car.
** ''Mola mola'', the ocean sunfish, start off at only 2.5 mm long, but grow to be the largest of bony fish at 247-1,000kg, or 60 ''million'' times their birth size.
** Giant squid can reach 13 meters in length, mantle-tip to tentacle-tip, but hatch out of eggs that are about 1 mm long.
** Leatherback sea turtles weigh up to 700 kilograms as adults. Their hatchlings' weight? 45 grams.
** Saltwater crocodile hatchlings average about 70 grams (2-3 ounces), but the largest males can exceed two tons in weight if they live long enough.
** The eggs of the Japanese spider crab are about 3/4 mm across. As adults, their legs can span 3.7 meters.
* Among placental mammals, the proportionately-smallest babies are those of the panda. The female panda delivers a tiny pink hairless cub that's a mere 1/900th of her weight, and is so small that the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-x_Km-bQwM birthing process is very quick]] (and admittedly rather comical). Though tiny, the baby panda has an [[CuteButCacophonic earsplitting cry.]]
* Ostriches are known for laying the biggest egg of any living bird, but the eggs are tiny compared to the mother bird herself, barely one-twentieth her weight. This is the equivalent of a chicken laying a quail-sized egg!
* Marsupials give birth to offspring that are hundreds of times smaller than their parents. Subverted in that a marsupial newborn is also ''so'' underdeveloped, it's neither adorable (think of a small, pink gummy bear but ''alive''), nor capable of interacting with anything except the nipples inside its mother's pouch and the fur it has to climb to get there. The red kangaroo may grow as tall as a man when fully grown, but at birth is no bigger than a jellybean!
* Bears are extremely tiny at birth compared to their parents. Newborn polar bears weigh just 0.9 kg, but grow to 386-405 kg if male or 150-210 kg if female.
* Very large dog breeds are usually like this, as their prenatal growth isn't much faster than an average-sized dog's. Thus, a Great Dane might weigh less than a pound at birth, and well over a hundred in adulthood.
* Dinosaur infants tended to be no larger than a football when born, even for the largest sauropod species. There was a practical reason for this: a larger, thicker eggshell would have trouble absorbing enough oxygen for the embryo inside, and might even be too difficult for the hatching baby to break. This extends to their modern relatives, crocodiles and birds. Even the largest of birds have generally tiny babies.
* In the case of the sauropods, even if they grew to five stories high and weighed up to 80 tons, they were at birth the size of a lap dog and weighed a measly 5 kilograms. They were not cared for by their parents and were pretty much left to fend for themselves, but on the other hand, their small size allowed their parents to produce ''LOTS'' of young, ensuring that at least a few would survive even if most of them get eaten by predators.
* In the case of ''Tyrannosaurus'', the animal seemed to have spent ''half of its life'' as a slowly growing juvenile, only reaching its full size around the age of twenty. For the first ten years of its life, a young ''T. rex'' was about one-hundredth the size of its parents.
* Pterosaurs also had this quality; a baby pterosaur would likely have been small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, but depending on the species it could potentially grow to have [[GiantFlyer a wingspan like that of a small airplane]].
* {{Inverted|Trope}} with the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudis_paradoxa Paradoxical Frog]], which after hatching grows into a huge, nearly foot-long tadpole... that later "grows" into a frog about a quarter of the tadpole's length.
* Piglets are only three or four pounds at birth, while their mothers are usually three or four ''hundred'' pounds. Their FATHERS often reach the 500-600lb range.
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* ''LightNovel/SoImASpiderSoWhat'': Newborn Taratects are the size of a pig while the Taratect Queens that spawn them are [[{{Kaiju}} bigger than dragons]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': The reveal that [[spoiler:King]] is a Titan shows that this is the case for Titans. [[spoiler:King]] is about the size of a housecat, while his deceased father is as big as ''Vermont'', [[GiantCorpseWorld his decaying body forming the island archipelago the entire story takes place on]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': The reveal that [[spoiler:King]] is a Titan shows that this is the case for Titans. [[spoiler:King]] is about the size of a housecat, while his deceased father is as big as Vermont, [[GiantCorpseWorld his decaying body forming the island archipelago the entire story takes place on]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Extinction}}'' have you battling the Ravenii, orc-like monstrosities the size of buildings that you can perform a ColossusClimb upon, and their juvenile offspring, the human-sized Jackals which are only ''slightly'' larger than humans.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': The reveal that [[spoiler:King]] is a Titan shows that this is the case for Titans. [[spoiler:King]] is about the size of a housecat, while his deceased father is the size of a ''continent'', [[GiantCorpseWorld his decaying body forming the island archepelago the entire story takes place on]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': The reveal that [[spoiler:King is a Titan shows that this is the case for Titans. King is as big as a medium-sized dog, while his deceased father is the size of a ''continent'', [[GiantCorpseWorld his decaying body forming the island archepelago the entire story takes place on]].]]

* Among placental mammals, the smallest babies are those of the panda. The female panda delivers a tiny pink hairless cub that's a mere 1/900th of her weight, and is so small that the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-x_Km-bQwM birthing process is very quick]] (and admittedly rather comical). Though tiny, the baby panda has an [[CuteButCacophonic earsplitting cry.]]

%%* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'': True of dragons, as revealed in ''Gift of the Night Fury''.

Often used to incorporate the ShoulderSizedDragon trope in stories about much larger dragons. May be combined with CubCuesProtectiveParent. %%Contrast Small Parent Huge Child.

* The Inuzuka Clan in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' fight with [[HorseOfADifferentColor and ride]] trained dogs the size of horses. This includes Kiba's dog Akamaru, who looked like a regular puppy that [[HeadPet rests on his master's head]] before the TimeSkip.

* In ''LightNovel/SoImASpiderSoWhat'' newborn Taratects are the size of a pig while the Taratect Queens that spawn them are [[{{Kaiju}} bigger than dragons]].

* One ComicBook/DonaldDuck comic had nephews find a large egg, slightly larger than a man(duck?). A creature is born from it, who is slightly shorter than the egg. At the end of the comic, we see the mother, who is ''larger than Earth''.
* One ''Manhua/OldMasterQ'' (a Chinese comic) strip had Master Q feeding a tiny little "fish" in a fishbowl. The next panel has the "fish" being kept in a bathtub and being fed actual fish. Master Q is later seen running home with more food only to see a ''whale'' burst out of his house.

* The baby dinosaurs in ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' are rather small compared to the fully grown ones.
* True of dragons in ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'', as revealed in ''Gift of the Night Fury''.
* The Tacodiles from ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs2''.
* ''WesternAnimation/AstroKid'': Flash, the alien creature that Willy befriends, is barely the size of a housecat when young. Willy can easily pick him up and carry him. Once an adult, he is at least four times bigger than Willy and the boy can ride on his back.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSeaBeast'': Blue, the baby monster Maisie adopts as a pet, is about the size of a small dog. While we don't see the adult version of his species, we can assume they are enormous if they're anything like the other sea beasts in the movie. However, we ''do'' get to see this trope in action with the Warmblers, the orange walrus-like beasts on Red's island -- the babies are all roughly the size of Maisie, but the mother is several hundred times their size and goes just under the treetops.

** In ''Film/{{Godzilla 1998}}'', Zilla is the size of a skyscraper, but its horde of offspring are only about twice the size of humans, about the size of the raptors of [[RaptorAttack Jurassic Park]], allowing them to pursue the main characters indoors.
** In the [[Film/Godzilla2014 2014 Legendary film]], the female MUTO is as tall as a building, but she lays eggs the size of small cars, which relatively speaking are incredibly tiny.
* The baby rock biter from ''Film/TheNeverendingStory 3'' is fairly tiny compared to the adult rock biters.
* In ''Film/TheWaterHorseLegendOfTheDeep'', the Loch Ness Monster is small enough to swim in a bathtub as a baby, but the size of a bus when fully grown.
* Played with in ''Film/{{Gorgo}}''. Gorgo is a true ankle biter compared to his mother, about a tenth her size. That said, Gorgo is still twice as tall as an elephant.
* In ''Film/PacificRim'', the adult kaiju are the size of mountains, whereas the fetal kaiju that emerges from its dead mother's carcass is the size of a bus, hence better-suited to harry an individual human target through the rubble-strewn city streets. (It's uncertain if this trope would have still applied if it had grown to full term and been born.)
* The baby ''Tyrannosaurus'' from ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' is small enough to be carried by one person, as opposed to its [[PapaWolf much bigger and angrier dad.]]
* In the ''Film/{{Sharktopus}}'' movies, the adult sharktopi have van-sized bodies and tentacles several yards long, whereas the hatchling from the second film is small enough for the heroine to lift it between two fingers.
* In ''Film/GameraTheBrave'', the new Gamera Toto is the size of a normal baby turtle when he first hatches. After a week, he's about as big as a house and he's still growing. By the end of the film, he's a full-grown Gamera capable of defeating the film's antagonist.
* The monster of ''Film/{{Cloverfield}}'', according to WordOfGod, was in fact only a baby. It's not "tiny" by any means, being a huge, ten-storey high {{Kaiju}}...until ''Film/TheCloverfieldParadox'', in which [[spoiler: the film closes with the reveal of the ''adult'' Clover...which is easily hundreds of times bigger than the baby, and with its head rising above the cloud layer is about ''several kilometers tall!'']]
* The ''Film/{{Tremors}}'' series have the Graboids, gigantic SandWorm monsters large enough to swallow cattle, flip over trucks and destroy buildings menacing the main characters, until the fourth film (a {{prequel}} set inn the 1840s) reveals the monsters' origins. Turns out the first generation Graboids are born from eggs the size of melons. One of the juvenile Graboids even gets killed via impalement on a pick.

* In ''Literature/CliffordTheBigRedDog'', Clifford is born tiny, but he grows to the size of a house in compliance with his owner Emily Elizabeth's concerned wish for her undersized pet. In the spin-off ''WesternAnimation/CliffordsPuppyDays'', his pre-wish life as a hamster-sized runt is depicted.
* Baby dragon Norbert in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'' is no bigger than a football. But in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' we see that adult dragons can get massive!
* Dragons in the ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'' are very large, but their babies are much smaller.
* Seems to be the case in one of Creator/RobertSheckley's short stories. A starship comes across a planet full of human scale animals and plants. In the end, it turns out [[spoiler:that the planet is a playground for some kind of alien children. The children are probably human sized or near so, but the parents seem to cast mountain sized shadows and use a mile high metal column as a key to wind up the entire planet.]]
* As a puppy, [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]]'s dog Mouse was small enough to fit in his coat pocket. Fully grown, it's a struggle to squeeze the pooch into Harry's Volkswagen.
* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', direwolves and dragons. Direwolf puppies are the same size as ordinary puppies, while the adults are as big as ponies. Dragon hatchlings are small enough to curl up on a teenage girl's shoulder, while the biggest known adult dragon, Balerion the Black Dread, could devour ''mammoths'' in a single bite and covered entire towns in his shadow when he flew overhead.
* A dragon in its late juvenile years ''Literature/Birthright2017'', stands at about four feet, while the oldest dragon seen is large enough to be mistaken for part of a room. Said dragon is also still an adolescent, meaning they very likely come bigger.
* In ''Literature/TheLightFantastic'', the baby troll is about the size of a watermelon. Played with in that his parents aren't ''that'' much bigger than humans, but [[spoiler: "Old Granddad" is large enough to qualify as a MonsterShapedMountain!]]

* The page image features Daenerys' dragons in ''Series/GameOfThrones,'' which hatch at the end of the first season. They start out as adorable kitten-sized babies that Dany can cradle in her arms or perch on her shoulder. Come Season 8, which is only a bit more than six years in in-universe time, and the largest of her dragons, Drogon, is now ''the size of a jumbo jet'', and is ridden by Dany as a mount.
** In ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'', some centuries-old dragons have reached a truly gigantic size such as Balerion, Vhagar and Vermithor (Drogo is still ''young'' compared to them). The youngest seen so far, Vermax, was merely the size of a human when first seen.
* On ''Series/DinoDan'', mother dinosaurs often appear with their very young offspring. Their size differences can be quite extreme, as when Dan carries a ''T. rex'' hatchling in the top of his backpack, then sends it to join its mother, whose ''toes'' are bigger than it.

* The ''Franchise/UltraSeries'', with its various monsters, occasionally shows the life cycle of different {{kaiju}}. How, at infancy, those monsters are surprisingly diminutive compared to their gargantuan adult forms.
** Kupukupu from ''Series/ReturnOfUltraman'', for example, starts off as a baby which can fit in a cage which an adult man can carry. But thanks to its AdaptiveAbility, it quickly grows into the city-destroying monster, Kingstron.
** The Kemjila larvae from ''Series/UltramanTaro'' on the other hand resembles ordinary worms, which feasts on watermelons and can be swatted by humans. But exposing it to fire will cause its rapid growth into the Kemjila adult, a building-sized monster. From the same series there's the kangaroo-like kaiju Chinpe whose baby is the size of a human child, but the mother is some 50 meters tall.
** Another instance in ''Series/UltramanEighty'' with the catfish-like monster, Angoras, where the Angoras mother is several times larger than Ultraman Eighty while the baby is the size of a regular fish. In fact, the reason behind [[MonsterIsAMommy the mother's rampage]] is because the baby was accidentally fished from a pond and kept in a child's aquarium, and the mother's fury was finally appeased when the boy who accidentally fished the baby released it back into the lake.

** The insectoid monster, Insectas from ''Series/UltramanMebius'' [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin (creative name, we know)]] has larva small enough to fit in a person's ear, while the adults are some 45 meters tall. The larva can grow to adult-size within a short period of time if it receives enough nutrients.

** Exaggerated and taken to the extreme in ''Series/UltramanZ'', which features the recurring monster, Kelbeam. As it turns out, the skyscraper-sized Kelbeams from the past series are actually ''infants'', and in the show we finally saw the MonsterProgenitor simply called the Mother Kelbeam -- a ''planet-sized'' version of the previous Kelbeams.

* In ''VideoGame/Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice'', Mao is about the size of a normal teenager. His dad, the Overlord, is so freaking huge that even his fingers are several times Mao's size. However, Mao's ultimate skill Vasa Aergun reveals that [[SubvertedTrope Mao himself]] actually has a quite gigantic OneWingedAngel form.

* In the ''VideoGame/KatamariDamacy'' series The King of All Cosmos is so much bigger than the Prince. In the game, the King is bigger than the sun and the prince is about the size of a teacup.
* The skags, specifically Dukino's Mom, from ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' and ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' are a great example. The skeletons littered around Pandora, like in Three Horn Valley and Tundra Express, [[RibcageRidge are so massive that bandits live in them]].
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'', the baby Chocobos are about as large as a real-life baby chicken. Adult Chocobos are about eight feet tall, and can carry humans on their backs without even slowing down significantly. This is not generally true of the rest of the ''Final Fantasy'' series, though; other games have baby Chobocos (sometimes called Chicobos) that, while smaller than the adults, don't seem disproportionately small.
* This applies to a people in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', namely the Elezen. Elezen youth are quite small, and even in their late teens hover around the 5 foot (or 1.5 meter) mark, with sixteen-year-old Alphinaud and Alisaie still being quite diminutive. Elezen ''adults'', however, are incredibly tall--a six-foot (2m) elezen man would be on the ''short'' end of things, and can easily reach a full seven feet. According to dialogue from Urianger, the great growth spurt kicks in at around age twenty.
* In ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM'', Samus occasionally encounters a small furry creature with chicken legs. The tiny but greedy little monster quickly disgusts and disturbs her with its eating habits. Samus had good reason to be unnerved by the creature -- [[spoiler:it's actually the larval stage of whatever species her ArchEnemy Ridley is and is in fact a clone of Ridley itself. And thanks to GeneticMemory, it hates her just as much as the original did.]]
* Franchise/{{Pokemon}} tend to be very small in their basic and baby forms, then get enormous with each evolution.
* ''VideoGame/DrunkOnNectar'' allows you to play through an insect's life cycle. As one would expect with invertebrates, you start off incredibly tiny compared to how you turn out.
* In ''VideoGame/OriAndTheBlindForest'' and ''VideoGame/OriAndTheWillOfTheWisps'', adult owls such as Kuro and Shriek are {{kaiju}}-sized, while their hatchlings are around the size of real-world owls.
* Many of the largest hatchable animals in ''VideoGame/{{Subnautica}}'' emerge from their eggs no bigger than peepers, making even the likes of crabsquids or cryptosuchus look cute.

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* The [[OurDragonsAreDifferent great dragon]] Strake of ''Webcomic/DarkWings'' is monumentally huge but his young son Arra is around the size of a puppy and years later when he's older he's as big as a draft horse yet still tiny compared to his father. The vast difference in size is actually [[LampshadeHanging remarked upon]] by the wyvern team sent to kidnap Arra.

* In an early ''Webcomic/{{Yamara}}'' strip, the adventurers come across a tiny two-legged creature and start arguing about what sort of monster it might be. In the last panel, a gigantic foot of the same type appears behind them, and Yamara looks up ''very'' high while fearfully suggesting that the tiny creature might be somebody's baby.

** The mammoth-like rakatusks are the largest land hamsters of the Glaciocene Era, rivalling prehistoric Earth's Paraceratherium at five meters at the shoulder and weighing over 20 tons. However, due to constraints of the mammalian placenta, their young are born proportionately very small, making them vulnerable to predators and making their parents extremely protective.
** Somewhat inverted with the wingles (flying lizard-like creatures the size of insects), who are so small that the females can only carry a single, proportionately massive infant about a quarter of her weight. The pregnancy takes so much out of her that she immediately needs to leave in order to find food once she gives birth and leaves the father as the sole caretaker.

* Dinky the dog from his self-titled segments on Hanna-Barbera's ''Popeye'' cartoon show started off as a small puppy bought at a pet store, but became so big (about the size of a car) that his two female owners sing that he isn't a "Dinky doggie" anymore.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', [[spoiler:the reveal that King is a Titan shows that this is the case for Titans. King is as big as a medium-sized dog, while his deceased father is the size of a ''continent'', [[GiantCorpseWorld his decaying body forming the island archepelago the entire story takes place on]].]]
* Teensy from the ''WesternAnimation/PoundPuppies1980s'' episode "Little Big Dog" was a tiny puppy small enough to be mistaken for a mouse. By the end of the episode which takes place several months later, he was so huge that he dwarfed his future owner.
* Amal from ''WesternAnimation/{{Primal}}'' is the size of a normal human child, but her father Kamau is a towering giant over nine feet tall: the same of which applies to the rest of their tribe. This also applies to Fang, a T. rex, and her far tinier babies.
* In one ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost'' episode, while Space Ghost is busy fighting a huge monster called a Star-beast in space, his sidekicks discover and befriend a strange creature no bigger than the team pet called a Star-fly. It's only too late that they remember that Star-flies are the larval form of Star-beasts. Fortunately, the new Star-beast still remembers the team pet whom it had befriended earlier and departs peacefully.

* Adamaï, Yugo's twin dragon brother in ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'' is about a head shorter than the KidHero. Grougaloragran, an adult dragon, is massive like any other western-style dragon. [[spoiler:When he reincarnates, he's about the size of a dog.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'': Played straight in the episode "The Egg" were the mother of a relatively small bug, that's about Wander and Sylvia's size, is a gargantuan behemoth.
** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in the episode "The Toddler" when the parents of a baby larger than Wander and Sylvia are two tiny bugs.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', [[spoiler:the reveal that King is a Titan and the son of the Boiling Isles Titan shows that this is the case for Titans. King is the size of a puppy while his father's corpse ''is'' the Boiling Isles.]]

* [[WesternAnimation/StrangeWorld Strange World]]: [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Splat]] is a larva of a much larger purple creature.

** ''Mola mola'', the ocean sunfish, start off at only 2.5 mm long, but grow to be the largest of bony fish. 60 million times their birth size.

* The page image features Daenerys' dragons in ''Series/GameOfThrones,'' which hatch at the end of the first season. They start out as adorable kitten-sized babies that Dany can cradle in her arms or perch on her shoulder. Come Season 7, which is only a bit more than five years in in-universe time, and the largest of her dragons, Drogon, is now ''the size of a jumbo jet'', and is ridden by Dany as a mount.

** The baby form of Godzilla Jr. from the Heisei era as introduced in ''Film/GodzillaVsMechagodzillaII''. The scientists were able to move its egg between the rooms of their lab and fit the hatched Jr. into the elevator. The infant's size difference with Godzilla himself is made clear near the end when they are seen together. By the time of ''Film/GodzillaVsSpaceGodzilla'', however, he has grown to half Godzilla's height.

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[[caption-width-right:350:From [[ShoulderSizedDragon sitting on his mother's shoulder]] to the [[DragonRider other way around.]] ]]

* In ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM'', Samus occasionally encounters a small furry creature with chicken legs. The tiny but greedy little monster quickly disgusts and disturbs her with its eating habits. Samus had good reason to be unnerved by the creature -- [[spoiler:it's actually the larval stage of whatever species her ArchEnemy Ridley is and is in fact a clone Ridley itself. And thanks to GeneticMemory, it hates her just as much as the original did.]]

* The skags, specifically Dukino's Mom, from ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands2}}'' are a great example. The skeletons littered around Pandora, like in Three Horn Valley and Tundra Express, [[RibcageRidge are so massive that bandits live in them]].

** ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasDinosaur'' have Nobita unexpectedly becoming the owner of the titular dinosaur, Piisuke (a ''futubasaurus'' that hatches from a fossilized egg restored by the Time Cloth). As a baby Piisuke can fit in a plastic beach bucket and shows up in a few scenes as a HeadPet on Nobita, but as it grows it becomes large enough for Nobita, Doraemon and all their friends to ride on. Naturally Doraemon has to use the [[ShrinkRay Shrink Light]] for Piisuke to fit in a container for the gang to deliver back to Japan.
** ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheBirthOfJapan'' have Nobita using Doraemon's Life Creation Set to create any new "pets" he wants, so he mixes the set's DNA around and creates a Pegasus, a Gryphon and an Oriental Dragon. In their default forms, the trio are small enough to fit inside Nobita's clothing, but as adults (in a few weeks!) they can be rode on as steeds.
** ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasNewDinosaur'' have Nobita becoming the owner of a pair of dinosaur ''twins'', both of them hatching out of a single egg and can be carried by Nobita on each hand. When growing up (reaching the dinosaur equivalent of adolscence within the span of a month) they're at least thrice larger than Nobita.