Giant monsters have been around long before movies. The Book of Job has an extensive discussion of the Leviathan; the Greeks told stories of the terrible Typhon, whose hundred serpentine heads scraped the stars; and dragons wer...

Actually, that’s not true. The dinosaurs went extinct when an asteroid hit the table the earth was situated on, nudging it slightly, and causing all the dinosaurs to fall over. But “How Dominos Killed the Dinosaurs&...