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209 million years ago, dark clouds hover over a rolling Triassic ocean just off the coast of the massive super continent containing all terrestrial life. Below the waves strange and primitive creatures swim; fish dart around large rocks, always apprehensive of the shadows that pass through the murk of the open ocean. Suddenly without warning huge jaws come charging out from the other side of a rocky outcrop, snapping shut as the poor little fish struggles in vain against the inter-locking dentition of a predator perfectly adapted to catch slippery prey.

With a gulping motion the creature those jaws belong to swallows its meal whole, moves upwards towards the surface, for Nothosaurs are air breathers, only having come back to the sea after some long forgotten ancestors found they had a talent for taking advantage of the abundant sea life, avoiding competition with their their terrestrial saurian cousins.

Description

209 million years ago, dark clouds hover over a rolling Triassic ocean just off the coast of the massive super continent containing all terrestrial life. Below the waves strange and primitive creatures swim; fish dart around large rocks, always apprehensive of the shadows that pass through the murk of the open ocean. Suddenly without warning huge jaws come charging out from the other side of a rocky outcrop, snapping shut as the poor little fish struggles in vain against the inter-locking dentition of a predator perfectly adapted to catch slippery prey.

With a gulping motion the creature those jaws belong to swallows its meal whole, moves upwards towards the surface, for Nothosaurs are air breathers, only having come back to the sea after some long forgotten ancestors found they had a talent for taking advantage of the abundant sea life, avoiding competition with their their terrestrial saurian cousins.