Sea Monsters @ National Geographic Magazine

November 21, 2005 by wfzimmerman | No comments

Yo momma’s ugly.


Sea Monsters @ National Geographic Magazine

About 250 million years ago Earth’s continents were gathered into one landmass, Pangaea. Shallow seas and the lack of significant marine predators created new niches for many reptiles that had developed on land. They wriggled into the water, swam, reproduced, and died, becoming the fossils on which the computer-generated art in this article is based. They remain, with good reason, the stuff of nightmares.

First good explanation I’ve seen for why there were so many big ugly reptliian sea monsters. (Note, they are not dinosaurs.)

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