Because regular lightning is not scary enough, here's T-Rex lightning

Gulp.
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Stan Schroeder
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Nature is terrifying. It's got (well, it had) terrifying dinosaurs roaming on Earth, the scariest of all being the predatory Tyrannosaurus Rex. And it's also got lightning, in which huge bolts of electricity just randomly strike the ground from the sky.

Now, combine the two.

A photo posted on Facebook by the U.S. Department of the Interior depicts a lightning strike at Blue Mesa in Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park that's shaped like a roaring T-Rex. OK, the arms are missing, but they're tiny anyways, and the shape is scary enough without them.


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Of course, if you're a hopeless romantic, you could say it's an upside-down heart-shaped balloon on a long string. But all we're seeing is an enormous, electrically charged, carnivorous dino, and we're probably never leaving the safety of our homes again.

Stan Schroeder
Stan Schroeder
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Stan is a Senior Editor at Mashable, where he has worked since 2007. He's got more battery-powered gadgets and band t-shirts than you. He writes about the next groundbreaking thing. Typically, this is a phone, a coin, or a car. His ultimate goal is to know something about everything.

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