Stunning sand sculpture of life-size elephant playing chess with mouse (photos)

World renowned sculptor Ray Villafane recently teamed up with artist Sue Beatrice to create an astonishing sand sculpture of a nine foot life-size elephant named Chessie Trunkston playing chess with a field mouse named Hershel Higginbottom.

According to Bored Panda, the artist, who is mostly known for carving pumpkins, even came up with a cute story to go with the sculpture:

“There was a young elephant named Chessie
who ate peanuts but was very messy
when a mouse had him beat
and with no way to cheat
he made one last move and compressed him”..