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Cadillac Ranch is a public art installation and sculpture in Amarillo, Texas, US. It was created in 1974 by Chip Lord, Hudson Marquez and Doug Michels, who were a part of the art group Ant Farm . The installation consists of 10 Cadillacs (1949–1963) buried nose-first in the ground.
Ruby was born in Thailand, and was shipped to the Phoenix Zoo in February 1974 when she was about seven months old. Initially, she lived with a goat and some chickens for a few years without any elephant companionship. [2] This initial period was difficult for Ruby. She would scatter grain in her small 20-by-30 foot enclosure to lure ducks into ...
A mastodon ( mastós 'breast' + odoús 'tooth') is a member of the genus Mammut (German for "mammoth"), which, strictly defined, was endemic to North America and lived from the late Miocene to the early Holocene. Mastodons belong to the order Proboscidea, the same order as elephants and mammoths (which belong to the family Elephantidae ).
Dodge Coronet. Years produced: 1949-1976 Original starting price: $1,945 None of Dodge's other muscle cars matched the sales of this beast. A family sedan and wagon regularly packaged with brawny ...
Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo welcomed the newest member to the elephant herd last weekend.. A male calf made his public debut Feb. 20 at just two days old, the Nebraska zoo said in a Facebook post.
Elephantidae. Elephantidae is a family of large, herbivorous proboscidean mammals collectively called elephants and mammoths. These are large terrestrial mammals with a snout modified into a trunk and teeth modified into tusks. Most genera and species in the family are extinct. Only two genera, Loxodonta (African elephants) and Elephas (Asian ...
Scrimshaw. American whaling ships, scrimshaw on whale tooth, c. 1800. Scrimshaw is scrollwork, engravings, and carvings done in bone or ivory. Typically it refers to the artwork created by whalers, engraved on the byproducts of whales, such as bones or cartilage. It is most commonly made out of the bones and teeth of sperm whales, the baleen of ...
"Elephant" is a song by Australian musical project Tame Impala, released on 26 July 2012 as the lead single from their second album Lonerism (2012). [1] The single features artwork from Australian artist Leif Podhajsky , who also created the artwork for Innerspeaker and the follow-up Lonerism .