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Turtles are normally on a mosasaur's menu.
The cliff edge creates updraft, and they can help.
As with most cephalopod,
Ammonites are mollusk, related to octopus and squid.
If he can just get to the underbelly,
where huge shoal of fish come close to the shore.
In the deep, these lights may help lure plankton as food.
The dagger beak of Phosphatodraco.
Beneath this pile of seaweed, something is stirring.
But this brood would make a welcome snack.
After fertilization,
They need the stones to act both as ballast and as gizzard stones.
Ammonites are mollusks, related to octopus and squid.
Pebbles that are particularly smooth, hard, and rounded.
The dagger beak of Phosphatodraco.
In the seas, monstrous reptile patrol the depths.
But no one seems quite ready to take the plunge.
Their first instinct is to climb.
forming partnerships with algae that grow within their tissues.
Here, however, in the pool at the bottom of a waterfall,
A giant marine lizard over twice the size of a tyrannosaur
covered with sponge, clams and corals.
nothing but an all-over body scrub will do.
Myriads of these marine creatures encrust the solid rock.
As couples entwine, they coordinate their light displays.
Rising sea level means that there are countless submerge islands
Mosasaurs have been found with the shatter teeth of rivals
They propel themselves with all four fins and travel almost effortlessly
A nine-foot-tall predator that stalk through these colonies,
The apparently stricken female is a tempting target.
embed in their skulls.
One kind of animal thrive in such places and forms immense colonies.
Isolated cliffs like this are ideal.
The old male snatch a breath.
She and her two-year-old calf are lag behind the rest of the group.
If he can't match her precise rhythm, he'll be reject.
It's dead, and the tyrannosaur has smell its rotting body.
In the seas, monstrous reptiles patrol the depths.
Hatchlings from hundreds of nests gather on the cliff-top
Mosasaurs are giant lizards and have both a lizard's fork tongue,
Neighbor trigger neighbor, creating waves of bioluminescence.
Ammonites are mollusks, relate to octopus and squid.
They need to get to the mist forest that lie beyond.
that split North America.
Powerful, predatory pterosaurs that normally catch fish.
But this is the one that has draw him here.
But one rock here appears surprisingly bare.
Wherever land meets sea,
must occasionally visit the coast for a very particular purpose.
The apparently stricken female is a tempting target.
could still defend itself very effectively.
Turtles are normally on a mosasaur's menu.
Their bones are extremely light, up to 90% air,
and certainly one of the most famous, is a dinosaur.
a type of huge marine reptile nearly 30 feet long.
And they're not alone.
Pebbles that are particularly smooth, hard, and rounded.
coastal life reaches perhaps its greatest diversity.
But no one seems quite ready to take the plunge.
It's especially rich here in the North Atlantic,
They propel themselves with all four fins and travel almost effortlessly
And soon there are thousands in each shoal.
His offspring are now just old enough to follow him on a journey
Tyrannosaurus rex often lose at least two-thirds
Far more than even the largest continent.
must first straighten and lock together, and that will take some hours.
And if all else fails,
Planet Earth, 66 million years ago.
Surely one of the most remarkable animals that had ever existed,
looking for a chance to snatch an unguarded hatchling.
in the most inhospitable places on Earth.
One way to take evasive action is to simply fold their wings and drop.
In the seas, monstrous reptiles patrol the depths.
In the waters off the drowned continent of Zealandia,
The apparently stricken female is a tempting target.
home to oceanic predators…
One kind of animal thrives in such places and forms immense colonies.
When they are as evenly matched as this, these battles can be lethal.
these shallow coastal seas cover an area of 25 million square miles.
The beach, however, doesn't look very promising.
The young are keen for a taste, but he's not sharing it.
Surely one of the most remarkable animals that had ever existed,
If he can't match her precise rhythm, he'll be rejected.
Diving to deeper water might make her less vulnerable.
The calm, dark nights that follow trigger a rare and beautiful event.
They have complex nervous systems,
But one rock here appears surprisingly bare.
This is the reason for the female's apparent distress.
It's a short enough crossing, but it can still be a dangerous one.
But one female is not swimming with her usual grace.
Pebbles that are particularly smooth, hard, and rounded.
But it's also a chance for his mother to find a suitable mate amongst the males.