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The Titanoboa, is a 48ft long snake dating from around 60-58million years ago. It had a rib cage 2ft wide, allowing it to eat whole crocodiles, and surrounding the ribcage were muscles so powerful that it could crush a rhino. Titanoboa was so big it couldn’t even spend long amounts of time on land, because the force of gravity acting on it would cause it to suffocate under its own weight.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

“Did I not say that you would be a burden? That you would not survive in the wild? That you had no place amongst us?”

Gardens

Fluorite - Schacht 78 Mine, Frohnau, Annaberg, Saxony, Germany

Heidi Gustafson, who has spent the past five years collecting and working with ocher, walks along Whidbey Island’s Double Bluff Beach, off the coast of Washington, in search of the material. She came to scout this area, where she spent time as a child, after recalling its interesting cliff exposure.Some ochers, Gustafson believes, are calling out to be turned into a pigment. Others are more resistant. Those ocher fragments are either returned to their point of origin, or, if Gustafson cannot get back there, placed outside in a stone graveyard of sorts that she has created in the forest near her cabin. A few of her ocher-based artworks hang on the wall.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/t-magazine/ocher-heidi-gustafson.html

Iguaza Falls, on the border of Argentina and Brazil, is one of the widest waterfalls on Earth.

Columns of extrusive igneous rhyolite, Chiricahua National Monument, Cochise County, Arizona.

"Who are you?"

"I'm you but paleontologically accurate"

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