Someone Having A Worse Day Than You

Two of the largest swamp dwellers ever, fight it out to the death. You know when the snake doesn't go for something smaller and easier to snack on that it considers itself untouchable. Humans would last all of six minutes in an environment like this.


“With a subject he could neither see nor photograph, Gurney constructed a small maquette scene from oven-hardened clay, rocks, and sticks in a Chinese food takeout container. Challenged by the the snake’s extraordinary length, he decided to show the titanoboa rising half out of the water in a death match with a crocodilian, a giant forebear of the modern crocodile. “The main purpose of my piece is to try to imagine what would otherwise just be a fairly ordinary fossil—to go from that to imagining a very dramatic moment in the life of this creature and to take us in a time machine to see what it really might have looked like,” says Gurney”