Arakan Forest Turtle 38.0 x 45.5 cm. (14.9 x 17.9in.) The Arakan Forest turtle is an extremely rare turtle species, living only in the Arakan hills of W Myanmar. It is semi-terrestrial but prefers to live in terrestrial habitats. It is dormant most of the time. When it is not foraging for insects, worms and fish, it hides under leaves and debris. Believed to be extinct since 1908, it appeared at Asian food markets in 1994; it is considered critically extinct. RS Puppis is a Cepheid variable star in the Puppis Constellation. Cepheid variable stars which pulsate in well-defined stable period and amplitude and is used to estimate cosmic distances to nearby galaxies. The pulsating RS Puppis, one of the most important stars in the sky, is 10 times more massive than our Sun. It pulsates over a period of about 40 days with regular changes in brightness. Its light echo is used to measure galactic distances. all paintings