Greenwhistler

Some photos of the Terra Cotta Army!

Here's what they would have looked like in their original state, painted (an archer and a general):

A chariot:

Not just soldiers: a terra-cotta bureaucrat:

The scale of the Terra-Cotta Army:

Bajoran whale? Trophy taken by a Cardassian and left hung up in the station as symbol of Bajoran strength?

The teeth aren't pointy, it's not a predator. It's something non-violent that the Cardassians took and killed and displayed.

This is from an end of the set they didn't show often, where Sisko enters the Prom if he comes from his quarters.

their big eggs are actually that size for a similar reason to human babies having massive heads!! being bigger at birth can be important.

kiwi are trying SO HARD to become mammals. fur-like feathers, whisker-like feathers, little beady eyes, nocturnal, great sense of smell.... that's basically a mammal!! they're well suited for life on the forest floor.

their big eggs work alongside these adaptations to give them a leg up in the bird world. their young hatch already feathered! they're precocial, which means they're born with the ability to open their eyes and move around. like foals.

big egg = more powerful offspring from the get-go. babies don't need to spend precious time vulnerable while they develop on the ground when they've already done all that in the egg!

honesty, still under the impression he's talking to a pimp: for the last time, it's not for me! I'd expect better than con-dee-sen-shun from a colleague in an adjacent industry. tsk.

pyrrha: wait, you're not taking any of it?

honesty: no, idiot. I'm a salesman, I only earn money if I, yknow, have stuff to sell.

"Men still live who, in their youth, remember pigeons. Trees still live who, in their youth, were shaken by a living wind. But a decade hence only the oldest oaks will remember, and at long last only the hills will know."