15+ Things That Are Larger Than You Might Think

As we can see here, even the doorway to get in is easily twice the size of one of us, if not triple our size.

They look dopey enough to have a fairly cuddly reputation in pop culture, but there's a reason these people are running away from it.

If it wanted to, the moose could probably mess up that van in a major way and it's unpredictable enough to try. They're kind of like hippos that way.

From where they're perched, we might get the impression that we could carry each light on our shoulders. In reality, we can see that this one is almost half the size of this 5' 10'' person.

Although it's hard to get a sense of scale from just part of this person's foot, they would likely find it's about as large as they are if they had laid down on it.

While we can grant that this is a child and therefore, not the greatest way of comparing our relative size to the snake, it's worth noting that a prehistoric snake wouldn't even have to unhinge its jaw to eat in this case.

Imagine being, at best, a light snack for a snake.

After all, we know how big an 18-wheeler is and that's not even as big as that star in the middle.

Compared to the sheer size of the field here, it looks like a toy car.

As we can see here, even one blade on the energy-generating structure is about 351-feet long. It takes a huge truck to haul one of these and each turbine has three of them.

Once you remember how many turbines are usually in a wind farm, the sheer amount of work that goes into making that operation possible becomes astronomical to think about.

This boat isn't exactly a yacht, but the fact that just two of these creatures seem to be enough to sink it certainly gives us a new perspective on their size.

Many of us have come across some large snapping turtles, but even their size is nothing compared to the size of a sea turtle. They can be as big as us, if not bigger!

Even though it's a bad idea, it almost seems like we could ride this one, right?

As we can see here, however, that's essentially the job of the Airbus Beluga, which seems to transport airplane parts.

Of course, that gets even easier when we take into account how much the most popular Mercator projection of the world distorts the actual size of landmasses.

But as we can see here, the entire United States could comfortably fit down there and we're talking about the fourth largest country in the world.

Yes, it's large enough that our hands can comfortably fit into its talons. Well, comfortably for the eagle, anyway.

After all, we know that it's obviously big, but did you really imagine it as "just one of its bricks is larger than us" big until you saw this picture?

From the looks of it, if we hollowed one out and tried to live in it like a Keebler elf, it would probably feel more spacious than a New York apartment for which someone would expect you to pay $1,500 a month.

Doesn't it look like we could cut the one we use now out of any of the ones that would have been in our phones 10 years ago?

Instead, we're looking at a plant that's commonly known as a yellow goatsbeard and bears a strong resemblance to the common nuisance flower with one pretty clear difference.

Just one of them barely fits in an adult's hand, so it's no surprise that the people who have to lay these down would indeed be working all the live long day.

If you've wondered what was so special about our ancestors painting a bunch of animals, it helps to realize that the scale they were working on was about as ambitious as the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

This is a photo of the Curiosity rover, which completely upturned my thought that it was only up to a human's knees. Why did I think that? Couldn't tell you, but I like this version more.

But seeing one next to the crew it held it still pretty shocking. I guess they always had ample space!

I feel like it's my life mission to show people how big wombats are seeing as I was extremely blown away when I first discovered this info.

Thanks to being buried, this guy has a wicked tan line. No worries, buddy. You've got loads of time to even that out now.

Technically "megabat" is a suborder containing multiple species of bats, but they're all huge, with some weighing up to 3.2 pounds (1.45 kg) and having wingspans up to 5.6 feet (1.7 m).

Seeing as many of us will never be physically close to a polar bear (at least, I hope not), it can be hard to imagine the sheer difference in size.

This is a saguaro cactus, which is the largest species of cactus and can grow to be 40 feet (12 m) tall. However, they're very slow growers, pushing seven inches a year and only growing a new arm about once every 70 years!

Chains this big are most often used for the movement of shipping containers, but they have a lot of uses on cargo ships.

We always think of dinos as impossibly large, but it's interesting to know some beasts today match them in size!

It's wild to think about, but the craft that most of us have any hope of owning could probably be destroyed by this behemoth without anyone on board noticing we were there.

And seeing as they need to have high visibility and easy readability, I can see why they're this huge!

As we can see here, however, that couldn't be farther from the truth and it's actually several times larger than most birds we see every day.