In the 2010 science fiction/fantasy novel, City of the Gods: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, Quetzalcoatl appears as a human king of Teotihuacan who is transformed into a colossal dragon-like creature.

They came by the dozens, colossal creatures whispering in a chorus of love and stirring up the sea with their impassioned leapings.

Here I was thrown upon my back, and beheld standing over me a colossal ape-like creature, white and hairless except for an enormous shock of bristly hair upon its head.

A trip to experience the thrill of seeing these colossal creatures gather here sits high on many a wildlife-watcher's wish-list, so specially adapted vehicles await to take you out on to the tundra for a close-but-safe encounter.

On the other side of the anomaly, Fry comes across a colossal, one-eyed, tentacled creature, which begins forcing its appendages through the anomaly.

If this colossal creature began eating at the instant of the Big Bang, by what century would he be able to consume, digest, metabolize and excrete the hypothetical hogie?

With a cry that sounded not unlike the bleat of a sheep, the colossal creature shuffled into the water and was soon submerged.

It was a colossal creature about ten or fifteen feet tall, standing erect, and had an intermediary set of arms or legs midway between its upper and lower limbs.

As the fire came nearer, Burl could see them: colossal, delicately-formed creatures sweeping above the white-hot expanse.

It was a giant, a colossal creature.