World’s Largest Bird Sculpture Took Artists 10 Years to Complete

Located in Chadayamangalam in Kollam district of Kerala, India, the sculpture of Jatayu is the world’s largest bird sculpture.

The idyllic setting of Kerala, India boasts incredible views of nature that are best seen from Jatayu Earth’s Center. A joint venture between the country’s tourism department and Rajiv Anchal, the nature park has been open since the end of 2017. It has since garnered a massive claim to fame; Jatayu Earth’s Center is home to the world’s largest bird sculpture.

The bird, also named Jatayu, has a staggering set of measurements. It is 200 feet long, 150 feet wide, and 70 feet tall. The sculpture features meticulous details you wouldn’t expect at such a large scale, including individually decorated and layered feathers. Jatayu’s impressive wings splay onto the ground which allows visitors to walk on top of the figure and climb onto his talons and head. They’re meant to go inside of Jatayu as well. The bird’s body doubles as a roof for the Earth Center’s building—making this work of art a functional one. It comes as no surprise that this incredible structure took Anchal and his team 10 years to complete.

Besides being a wonderful feat of design and architecture, there's also significant context to the massive sculpture. Jatayu is a symbolic figure in the Hindu epic Ramayana. Known as a “noble bird of divine origin,” the legend is that he tried to rescue Sita, the wife of the famed Lord Rama (an incarnation of Vishnu and Krishna). Sita was being abducted by the demon king Ravana, and Jatayu came to her defense.

After battling with Ravana, the king cut off Jatayu’s left wing and escaped with Sita. Jatayu Earth’s Center decided to pay tribute to the noble figure's's dedication to women’s safety and honor it with this gigantic statue. The sculpture also symbolically recognizes a “bygone era when humans, animals, and other living forms care for each other and fellow beings lived peacefully on this Earth.”

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Alberta pipeline workers find a significant dinosaur fossil

An amazing discovery was made by a group of oil pipeline workers digging at a location close to Spirit River, Alberta: a nearly 10-meter-long petrified dinosaur tail.

According to Brian Brake, executive director of the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum, "what we have is a totally composed tail," he told the Edmonton Journal on Wednesday. "It's lovely."

According to CBC News, a backhoe operator who was accidently breaking a chunk of the dinosaur off as he was digging in the Saddle Hills region, southwest of Spirit River, discovered the fossil in October 2013. He may have initially assumed it was a rock, but as he moved the fragment out of the way, he saw the rest of the fossil.

As soon as someone could be brought in to inspect the fossil, work on the site was immediately suspended. The Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller was contacted after hearing about the discovery by the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum, which is in charge of retrieving fossils in Alberta. According to CBC News, there are already paleontologists from the Tyrrell Museum and National Geographic at the location, and Dr. Matthew Vavrek, the head paleontologist for the Pipestone Creek Dinosaur Initiative, will shortly join them.

Although several reports claim that this discovery is 30 meters long, it is obvious from the image and the worker's size that the fossil is significantly shorter. The fossilized tail of a hadrosaur, a plant-eating dinosaur that lived in the Alberta region about 65 million years ago, is another theory that has been floated. Brian Brake responded via email and acknowledged that "feet" had been changed to "metres" at some point; nevertheless, the specifics of the fossil's length and the species from which it originated are still unknown. The Royal Tyrrell Museum will provide more updates.

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