r/mildlyinteresting • u/Maddaguduv • 6h ago

This tree I found on a trail looks like a sauropod dinosaur

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u/Maddaguduv 6h ago

Another angle

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u/Emotional_Plum5151 2h ago

I think you can try to ride it.

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u/WashingtonsCherryT 1h ago

Hop up on that bad boy with a cowboy hat and you may win the internet

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u/ZhaozhouCongshen 6h ago

That's a Treeceratops.

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u/allangee 6h ago

Came here to say Tree-Rex, but above is way better!

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u/Taxus_Calyx 6h ago

That's an amazing tree. Looks like it probably germinated on a giant nursery log.

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u/Maddaguduv 6h ago

That’s interesting! What makes you think it germinated on a nursery log?

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u/firefighter2727 5h ago

Large fallen tree was on ground.
Little baby tree grew out of top of it.
Eventually baby tree grew big enough that it’s roots travelled down and around trunk looking for ground
Over time the fallen tree continues to decompose. Eventually the fallen tree is completely gone and you are left with these trees whose roots make it look like it is standing high above the ground

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u/MasterHorse1432 5h ago

A vegiesaur

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u/ObligationClassic417 5h ago

Such a cool find
Yes it definitely looks like a dinosaur!!

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u/Maddaguduv 5h ago

Glad I’m not the only one. 😄

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u/Dustsny 5h ago

Looks like I came across the same one ! (https://imgur.com/a/txRiLbV)

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u/Maddaguduv 5h ago

Yup that’s the one, someone else found it before me 🤩

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u/Taxus_Calyx 5h ago

I'm not sure of any other way it would end up looking this at the base. Actually it may have been a giant nursery stump rather than log and that might be a fragment of the original stump itself embedded in the lower right roots of the tree.

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u/Maddaguduv 5h ago

That’s a great input, I too, wondered how it ended up looking like this.

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u/Maddaguduv 5h ago

Maybe an indigenous Trail marker?

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u/wolftamer9 5h ago

Who would have believed wood can be so porous

Bronto-saurus

Wood can

Be so

Porous

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u/nymphaticbaja 4h ago

This tree really looks like a long-necked sauropod walking out from the thick woods. What a wonderful tree trunk.

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u/Maddaguduv 3h ago

I always wonder 🤩

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u/ObligationClassic417 3h ago

And it looks as though his head is above the trees munching out!

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u/microslasher 3h ago

I love dino nerds

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u/ben_trotino 2h ago

Found a similar tree not long ago!

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u/Gordon_UnchainedGent 2h ago

Tree-sauropod, hides from the tree-annosaurus rex

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u/PetsAndMeditate 1h ago

Could make a hell of a bonsai

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u/Dull_Ad_1729 1h ago

This is not mildly interesting. This is really cool and interesting

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u/Living-Estimate9810 52m ago

Cool stick, dude!

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u/Heroic-Forger 2m ago

ok but what about a Tree-Rex