Godzilla, King Kong, the Kraken–these are a few of the world’s greatest monster legends. And apart from an insatiable desire to destroy anything (and everything) in their path, there is one thing monsters have in common: they are big. Like level-a-city-block-with-a-swipe-of-the-tail-and-leap-from-one-skyscraper-to-the-next big. In fact, the term “monster” is usually applied to objects that are larger…

