Campo del Cielo Meteorite - 70.69g ruby and patterns of this specimen

and patterns of this specimen vary widely

CRINOID (170

915" fossil Ginkgo cranei leaf from the Sentinel Butte Formation in North Dakota

forming a rigid shell

Campo del Cielo Meteorite - 70.69g ruby and patterns of this specimen"Moon defends himself with a spear tipped with a head carved of the soft wood of the bottletree, which breaks apart at the first impact. He also has a club made of the same wood which is too light to cause any harm. The Jaguar tears at his body, pieces of which fall on the earth. These are the meteors, which three times have caused a world fire." ~ Oral myth of Toba cosmology as recorded by Alfred Mtraux, 1946. Thousands of years ago, a massive metal