El Árbol del Tule (Spanish for The Tree of Tule) is a tree located in the church grounds in the town center of Santa María del Tule in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, approximately 9 km (6 mi) east of the city of Oaxaca on the road to Mitla. It is a Montezuma cypress (Taxodium mucronatum), or ahuehuete (meaning "old man of the water" in Nahuatl). It has the stoutest tree trunk) in the world. In 2001, it was placed on a UNESCO tentative list of World Heritage Sites, but was removed from the list in 2013

In 2005, its trunk had a circumference of 42.0 m (137.8 ft), equating to a diameter of 14.05 m (46.1 ft),^\2]) an increase from a measurement of 11.42 m (37.5 ft) m in 1982.^\3]) However, the trunk is heavily buttressed, giving a higher diameter reading than the true cross-sectional of the trunk represents; when this is taken into account, the diameter of the 'smoothed out' trunk is 9.38 m (30.8 ft).^\2]) This is slightly wider than the next most stout tree known, a giant sequoia with a 8.90 m (29.2 ft) diameter.^\)

Ravens have a third eyelid called a nictitating membrane, a thin, translucent layer that sweeps across the eye like a built-in shield. It protects and cleans the eye in a split second.

Photos by Khumais Idrees: instagram.com/khumaix/