PaleoLimerick #18 – Mesozoic Misapprehension

An ammonite in the Cretaceous ocean
Was filled with the strongest emotion
Her exquisite suture
Preserved in the future
But of extinctions, she had absolutely no notion.

PaleoLimerick #11: King of the Vestigial Appendages

Tyrannosaurus was a dinosaur which
Was renown as a son-of-a-b*tch
With such tiny arms
He inflicted no harms
And died of primordial jock itch.

PaleoLimerick #7: Bloody Big Yabby

A crayfish from the Early Cretaceous
Was so large it was considered predaceous
With one giant claw
You were shoved in its maw
Producing scat that was also hellacious.

(Poem was debuted live on October 18, 2009 at the Geological Society of America annual meeting in Portland, Oregon.)

PaleoLimerick #4: Teleost Voracity

Xiphactinus was a very big fish
That ate whatever it wished
When making a kill
It swam with great skill
With a flourish, a flash, and a swish.