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Hostile Beauty

The deserts of the southwestern United States are some of the most hostile places to live on the planet with some of the highest temperatures on earth ever being recorded. Yet there is astounding beauty in the variety of landscapes and in the diversity of creatures who scratch out a living in these extreme environments. Hostile Beauty features a ram skull in the Mojave desert near Joshua Tree national park. With males capable of growing an impressive set of curved horns, some weighing as much as 30lbs, the big horned sheep are the largest mammals to call many parts of the arid southwest home. They live and die on the razor's edge of existence in places most creatures could never survive.