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Minnow bounded across the forest floor, then stopped and squashed herself low to the ground to try to hide. She listened intently, looking around for any sign of something bigger wandering around. A utahraptor, or a carnotaurus looking for a snack, or even something as small as a large eagle would still be perfectly capable of whisking her away. She was growing, but she was not ...

It was sunset in Atlantis and the Euoplocephalus were winding down, eating their last meals before they settled down to sleep for the night. Each of the species down here had their own 'clans' usually between species, although it wasn't too rare for different herbis to group up. Most hang around in family groups- one euoplocephalus family in particular has recently had trouble sleeping.   "Momma, where are we ...

Eos ran as quickly as she could across the Peran landscape, claws kicking up pebbles and small bits of debris with every frantic step. She panted as she ran, arms folded close to her chest with her claws tucked away so that they didn’t catch or break on anything as she ran through the twisting, turning corridors and crags of the rock and boulder-strewn stretch of the Peran scrublands. The landscape was rapidly turning into a canyon, the ground curving downward...

Toffee | Zhetan 447 Words It had started as a simple curiosity, some sort of structure where the door was slightly ajar. How could they not be curious? The three dinos had been gathered around the door, trying to peer inside without disturbing the door, by opening it more, or bei...

Minnow hurried across the leaf-covered ground, scampering as fast as her squat little legs could carry her. The rustling leaf litter betrayed her path to anyone that might be listening and it made her only want to go faster, her heart pounding her chest. Everything was too big, too terrifying. She had known since very soon after hatching that atopos were food for whatever decide...

"What are you doing here?" The voice was loud and gruff. He had been staring at a shelf of specimens for a little while when Dirch turned towards the direction he had heard the noise. "Excuse me?"   "How do so many of you get down here? L...

It was suffocating for sure. The air was heavy despite the fact that the three dinosaurs had already run so far. The fire behind them didn’t stop. It felt as if it was hunting them. Anytime they felt safe there was another burst of wind that made the fire travel faster towards them. The two three raptors, two utahraptors and one oviraptor ran as fast as they could. So far no embers had managed to catch them yet but they could not afford to stop.  ...

She had been accustomed to the outside world by now. The fresh air. The vibrancy of the colours that surrounded spring, summer and fall. Even during the winter the colours were stronger than inside the laboratory. There was dust everywhere mudding down the greyish colours that painted the halls. It felt as if it crawled inside of her nostrils with every breath. She had promised herself she would not return down into t...

“Wake up! C’mon, Layla’s been away for ages and I’m bored.” Dullahan nibbled on Callahan’s cheek feathers, purposefully trying to annoy her so that she got up and paid attention to him. The joke was on Dullahan - she was starting to lose her hatchling feathers and they were slowly being replaced by a more protective layer of feathers and it itched ...

The odds that two animals would hatch from the same egg was small, but it wasn’t an impossibility. That was how Callahan and Dullahan hatched: together. They were fully formed, perfectly healthy except for being smaller than was typical for a utahraptor fresh out of the egg. They were markedly similar in appearance with their grey and black colours with striped limbs - the only differences between them being that Ca...

“Are you sure it’s this way?” Hael panted as he tried to keep up with Amaryllis. They’d both had a growth spurt, but Amaryllis still managed to be larger than him. Even though she was heavier as well, she had more speed in her step than the young parasaur, and longer strides. “I’m supposed to help keep watch this evening, ...

Being a rather small thing was difficult work. Keeping up with the herd on short little legs was hard, and grazing on even the most succulent and young leaves left Hael full and sleepy. His siblings were more than happy to kick up a fuss and run around on wobbly legs as they started to develop their strength, but he just wanted to doze in the gentle afternoon sun. Maybe not in the ...

They had climbed for a while now, up the side of the mountain. Out of all five of them the only one that actually seemed to enjoy the climb was the young raptor. She would run ahead of her four Styra dads and then when she thought they took way too long she would run back to them in a huff telling them to hurry up and also start running, something none of them planned on doing. “Be careful!” Brick...

Åra, Ära and Öre had been on the iguanodon queens side most of the time. But that was until the three dinosaurs had learned that despite how much they helped the dinosaurs they would still spread their plants to the top world. These plants that had on numerous occasions tried to grab others. At one time they had even tried to grab Åra, causing great panic with Öre and Ära as they fought the vines off their friend and partner.  ...