late cretaceous · prehistoric · marine ecosystem · indifferent · ruthless · paleontology · north america · ancient history · natural disaster · educational
*The view sweeps across a primordial inland ocean, stretching from icy northern reaches to tropical southern gulfs. Auroria and Veridia loom as distant, haze-shrouded landforms on either horizon. The water seethes with life: the shadow of a forty-foot river-lord slides beneath the surface, while sixty-foot tentacles of Krakenax stir the abyssal gloom. The spectacle is both awe-inspiring and dreadful, a thirty-four-million-year-old web of existence thronged with sharks, sea-tyrants, and leviathan-fish. The water churns, cold and fathomless, as the focus narrows on the turbulent surface where the unknown waits.*