Today’s Exhibit of the Day? The Museum’s giant amethyst geode. Standing 9 ft (2.7 m) tall and weighing around 11,000 lbs (5,000 kg), it’s one of the largest specimens in our halls. How did this dazzling geode come to be? About 135 million years ago, the continental plates carrying South America and Africa began to separate. Magma poured out from fractures in Earth’s crust and large gas bubbles escaped from within the magma—becoming trapped in the rock as it solidified, forming cavities. Groundwater flowing into these spaces brought dissolved silica, which crystallized into quartz. Over millennia, most of these quartz crystals turned into rich purple amethyst. Spot this and other amazing specimens in the Museum’s Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals!
Despite looking like 3 different pokemon they are a single one, and they are rarely seen all 3 out at the same time. Each one has a very different personality, with the turkey being very calm and slow, the duck being lively and jovial and the chicken being very aggresive
They are based on the "Turducken", a dish consisting in a Chicken stuffed in a Duck stuffed in a Turkey, and usually made for Thanksgiving, in Matryoshka dolls, also known as "nesting dolls" or "russian dolls" and in Geodes, with each bird representing a different layer
They have the ability "Birds-of-a-feather". With this ability a new bird will come out when the previous one is in a pinch.
The Turkey is a tank with a very high defense and HP, takes mostly anything, but if you gets its HP to 3/4 the Duck will come out
The Duck is a more balanced bird, with a higher speed but its defense and attack are even, but if you drop its HP to 1/2 or lower the chicken will come out.
The Chicken is evil, fear the chicken! The chicken is nothing but attack and speed and it will use them to ruin your day! It fears no man, it fears no god! It only knows violence and rage and will kick your ass!
A fun thing to do would be to use Belly Drum with the Turkey, dropping its HP to 1/2, thus bypassing the Duck, and pulling out a max attack Chicken, which then will proceed to unleash its fury and wreck havoc indiscriminately
Rutilated quartz is a variety of quartz which contains acicular (needle-like) inclusions of rutile. It is used for gemstones. These inclusions mostly look golden, but they also can look silver, copper red or deep black. They can be distributed randomly or in bundles, which sometimes are arranged star-like, and they can be sparse or dense enough to make the quartz body nearly opaque. While otherwise inclusions often reduce the value of a crystal, rutilated quartz is valued for the quality and beauty of these inclusions.
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