"Where else on Earth do centipedes eat dinosaurs?" - Spring expedition, 1937 The tangled jungles of Skull Island are, without doubt, the most impressive forest complexes on the planet. Gnarled trees the size of skyscrapers erupt in knotted root jumbles from the broken, volcanic earth. Entire ecosystems exist within the great arms of single trees, with unique species coddled among their leaves and vines. Undergrowth, taller and denser than full-sized trees elsewhere in the world, choke the sodden ground hundreds of feet below the light-gobbling canopy. Snakelike vines and strangling creepers crisscross, struggling with one another in a slow fight for light and water. Fungi the size of armchairs jut from sponge-damp wood to vomit clouds of toxic spores into the sodden air, and thick seas of