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Chapter 1: Triassic Origins.
Its a bright sunny day in the sparse arid forests of what will become New Mexico. Tiny brown caterpillars munches on toxic coated leaves, basal pterosaurs soar in the skies, spiky desert lizards wrestle and bite each other over territory. A plethora of strange reptiles dominated the land, many predators bare some similarities to crocodilians but were far more monstrous.
Dinosaurs and their pterosaur cousins once shared a common ancestor with these crocodilian-like beasts. Yet the dinosaurs live in their shadow, from day to night, with each revolution of the earth. Until something unexpected happen, a rock from space collided with the earth, spelling doom for many of its inhabitants. Many lifeforms perished from the ensuing disaster but life finds away.
A foot plops down on a spike lizard, the spines jab hard into the leathery foot causing the large creature to howl. "Eeeehraaa rawwlrrrr" the Gojirasaurus yelped. The Spike lizards quickly dashed off under a rock. Goji approached the crevice where the spike lizard was hiding in, he first attempted to prop the crevice like a stork looking for a fish. The small spike lizard leaped out to bite Goji on the nose before retreating further under the rock. Desperate, Goji pushed the rock with his forearms. The boulder wouldn't budge at first until, Goji applied more of his weight to the rock and sure enough it moved. The boulder came rolling down, the spike lizard quickly dashed away to find more cover. Goji inhaled deep, his head jerked backwards before spitting out a jet of specialized saliva on to the spike lizard. The saliva was very sticky and was more than enough to ensnare the spike lizard. Little did Goji knew that this mutation would be key to his decedents atomic breath, but for now Goji munches on the lizard-like anguirosuchus, a basal archosaur who's decedent the mighty Anguirus will originated from.
Millions of years later....
The sun rises once more above New Mexico, what was once a sparse dry forest in the Late Triassic is now a wet tropical jungle in the Early Jurassic. Tiny white moths with rainbow pattern wings emerge from their cocoons hanging off a cycad. A creature bolts past the moths, it gallops away on the wet mucky floor being pursued by its predator. The injured prosauropod whines as it reaches a dead end near a cliff face, it reluctantly turns around to face its pursuer. It was a Gojirasaurus, a relic from the Triassic, it slowly approaches its prey before the larger Dilophosaurus snuck up on it. The dilophosaurus bellowed at the diminutive Gojirasaurus, causing the Gojirasaurus to flee. Goji turned her head back to see the dilophosaurus finish off the prosauropod, before turning back up the hill. Already lost a meal to the newest member of her clade, the future will only get harder from this point on.
