"An Alligator Half That Size Would Starve in a Week"

We're a bit embarrassed to admit this, but we once wrote a magazine piece that seriously examined the physiological feasibility of Godzilla. We called various eggheads and asked them to assess whether a lizard-like creature as massive as Tokyo's favorite monster could ever exist in the real world. The universal answer, of course, was nyet—Godzilla's weight would instantly crush all of his internal organs. Not to mention the fact that he couldn't possibly consume enough salarymen to satisfy...