bones

Travis Shumake has made a career out of breaking barriers, which is both dangerous and impressive when you consider he’s broken those barriers — and some bones — in a dragster going 324 miles per hour.

Hand-forged armatures connect some 350 bones to an underlying steel skeleton.

Rains come and the dinosaur’s bones wash into a river, where they lodge in the sandy bottom.

More time goes by, and as the organic material in the bones wears away, water seeps into its place from the surrounding rock.

Over time, the bones concealed in the ground turn the same emerald hue.