There is a fascination with seeing such huge versions of a creature many of us are familiar with. (dive-the-world.com)
Now, researchers have come up with an explanation for these odd shapes: Each one is an immense mass of ice that's picking up the dwarf planet's internal heat at its base, rising toward the surface at its center, and then circulating outward from there and downward at its edges, à la huge versions of tabletop «lava lamps» popular in the 1960s. (sciencemag.org)
In Mario Kart 7, huge versions appear in a course named after the species, Piranha Plant Slide. (mariowiki.com)