#polycotylid

[paleosworld27]

A lone Elasmosaurus who was separated from his pod, is now adopted by a friendly pod of Dolichorhychops

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Results from the Christmas eve #paleostream, on which we covered recent discoveries from this December.

Unktaheela, Yechilacerta, Bustingorrytitan and Meilifeilong

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! Have some nice holidays!

[he-who-needs-to-be-silenced]

Maysozoic day 13:

Carnotaurus flees from a titanomachya who is currently sliding down the muddy shore, while a confused sulcusuchus tries to understand the beats who swam above his home and can go onto the forbidden land

Also forget the barosaurus lore will do that later today

[antediluvianechoes]

We are the night by Hyrotrioskjan

Scapanorhynchus is a night feeder, hunting in the dark, when the ocean is black and shimmers with cold reds and blues or unearthly greens—plankton and jellies become bioluminescent stars. The shark pays these no mind; her eyes are weak. Instead her nose knows. It’s a sensor-loaded snout searching for dull impulses—fields of electricity that leak from the flanks of fish and squid and tell Scapanorhynchus to bite. Her mouth dislocates from her body to do this, popping from below her nose like an umbrella opening under an awning. Because Scapanorhynchus drifts instead of swims, the fish never feel her coming.

A bigger impulse slides near, too big for Scapanorhynchus to consider it a meal. It’s a polycotylid, a long-beaked plesiosaur, nature’s cross between penguin and dragon. Scapanorhynchus knows her place, knows to glide away. It just takes the twitch of a tail to move and slide away unnoticed. Being unseen is the advantage of hunter and prey.