legend of dinosaurs & monster birds when dinosaurs ruled the earth

It paused for a moment to scratch the hair on its neck, turned its ear to the air, and scampered forward on all fours.

It leapt upward, into the light, and scurried onto the bones.Ĭlothed in fur, with bulging eyes and a snout full of teeth that looked like mountain peaks and a whiplash tail, this critter couldn’t have been more different than a T. Its whiskers trembled, in expectation of danger, but it found none. rex ribs, haltingly, as if afraid to go any farther.

A tiny nose poked out between a couple of T. A clicking chatter, a flutter of footsteps. Then, from somewhere within the behemoth, a soft sound. It was, once, a Tyrannosaurus rex, the tyrant lizard, the King of the Dinosaurs, the oppressor of a continent. Each one the size of a banana, with the sharp edges of a knife, the murder weapons this monster had used to dismember and crush the bones of its prey. Its jaws were agape in a scream, its teeth busted and scattered in front of its face. Its flesh and sinew were long gone, its bones a moldy beige. The skeleton of a beast lay upon the riverbank. Silence hung in the wind, punctured only by the churn of a river, its currents clogged with sticks and stones and the residue of decay. It was all dirt and mud, a wasteland absent any greenery or color whatsoever. There was still a whiff of smoke wafting from the gray clouds, which blanketed the ground in shadow. For the first time in years, the sun broke through the darkness.

Legend of dinosaurs & monster birds when dinosaurs ruled the earth