James Stewart
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first heard Apr 2025
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James Stewart’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Astrum Space · The Biggest Snake to Ever Stalk the Earth | Titanoboa | Astrum Earth · 12 May 2026
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On the other side of the stone, there was an impression of a fossil leaf etched into it.
He picked up another rock, and the same thing happened again, and then again, and again, and again.
He had stumbled upon a set of beautifully preserved fossil leaves, which he brought to the attention of Carlos Jaramillo, who we mentioned before.
Now if, like me, you're thinking what's so special about fossilised leaves, well, yeah, fair enough.
But they were about to reveal something far more intimidating, almost entirely by accident.
Now, what made this area particularly unique was that most fossils near the equator tend to end up buried beneath millions of tons of soil and vegetation and are largely inaccessible.
Wing, fascinated by this discovery, wanted to see the mine for himself.
When he arrived, however, it wasn't the fossilized leaves that caught his attention, but rather the long-forgotten petrified branch that had been gathering dust in the display case in the reception for nearly a decade.
Wing's instincts kicked in here and he started taking pictures through the glass with his camera.
He then emailed the images of the branch over to paleontologist Jonathan Block of the University of Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville.
Unknown to Wing at the time, the email he had just sent was about to profoundly sharpen our entire understanding of evolution.
In Block's own words, he flipped out when his inbox pinged, and then the floodgates opened.
What Block was looking at was not some petrified stick, but the jawbone of a land animal.
there was a terrestrial vertebrate of an age never before seen in these parts.
Block identified the jawbone as belonging to a group of extinct crocodiles called Dirosaur, one of the largest marine vertebrates to survive the great extinction event.
And where one fossil was, there were usually many more.
Fueled by a newfound sense of urgency, in 2004, Block and Wing planned a trip back to the Sederhorn mine.
They called Garcia, the finder of the petrified branch turned extinct crop drawer, to ask where exactly to focus their search.
The answer was an area in the north of the mine, particularly exposed and left baking in the extreme heat, an area called La Puente Cut, covering some 6,000 acres.
The conditions were brutal.
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