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Doom for Europasaurus

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A pair of unnamed megalosaurid dinosaurs(known only from fossil footprints) arrive on the shore of a small island in the Jurassic European archipelago after traveling from a far away, larger island, making use of the lowered sea levels by swimming across narrow, shallow stretches of water and walking over new land bridges between smaller islands. Famished after weeks of nothing but scavenged sea-food, the carnivores easily attack a Europasaurus foraging on the beach; a native sauropod who has adapted to living on a smaller island by becoming much smaller than its titanic cousins, roughly the size of a hippopotamus. These herbivores have lived without fear of giant predators for millennia, but now face a threat they are not adapted to deal with, as one Europasaurus flees the shoreline to the forest while Compsognathus gather around to scavenge off the megalosaur's fresh kill, and frightened pterosaurs scatter. Its possible that as an invasive population of these large theropods became established on the island of the Europasaurus, the dwarf dinosaurs could not handle the increased hunting pressure and soon died out.

Fellow paleoartist Joschua Knuppe did a wonderful piece after this discovery which greatly inspired me to make this. Here is his reconstruction; hyrotrioskjan.deviantart.com/a…
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