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Archelon is an extinct marine turtle from the Late Cretaceous, and is the largest turtle ever to have been documented, with the biggest specimen measuring 4.6 m (15 ft) from head to tail and 2.2–3.2 t (2.4–3.5 short tons) in body mass.
Video game music (VGM) is the soundtrack that accompanies video games. Early video game music was once limited to sounds of early sound chips, such as programmable sound generators (PSG) or FM synthesis chips. These limitations have led to the style of music known as chiptune, which became the sound of the first video games.
Video game soundtracks considered the best Year Game Lead composer(s) Notes Ref. 1985 Super Mario Bros. Koji Kondo: The Super Mario Bros. theme was the first musical piece from a video game to be inducted into the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry. [1] [A] 1988 Mega Man 2: Takashi Tateishi [B] 1989 Tetris: Hirokazu Tanaka: Game ...
A study of large turtles from the Yangtze River reported an average weight of 25 kg (55 lb), although not all specimens were definitively identified as Rafetus. [7] The turtle’s carapace (shell) typically measures over 50 cm (20 in), with the largest recorded at 86 cm (34 in) in straight length. Curved carapace lengths of up to 106 cm (42 in ...
The award was introduced to recognize the impact of music specifically written for video games and other interactive media. This is a sister category to the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media, which previously honored scores written for film, television and video games, though Journey in 2013 was the only game ever nominated.
The giant leatherback sea turtle, the largest extant turtle, digs a nest on the beach. The largest extant turtle is the leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea), reaching a maximum total length of 3 m (10 ft) and a weight of 961 kg (2,119 lb). [1] [96] The second-largest extant testudine is the Loggerhead sea turtle. It tends to weight ...
A giant anaconda species captured recently in the Amazon of Ecuador by a team of scientists is the largest to ever be documented, USA TODAY previously reported, and now, there are images showing ...
In 2022, Jonathan's estimated age exceeded that of the tortoise that Guinness World Records had recognised as the oldest recorded ever, Tu'i Malila, who died in Tonga in 1966 at the age of 189. Adwaita , an Aldabra giant tortoise that died in 2006 in the Alipore Zoological Gardens of Kolkata , India, is believed to have lived to the age of 255 ...