PaleoHaiku #13: Cruising, and a...

Trilobite trails
A burrow celebration
Shallow but profound.

PaleoHaiku #12: Thanatos in Motion

Molluscan debris
Comingling of bodies
Summer storm, long past.

PaleoHaiku #11: Abyssal Farm

Paleodictyon
Agriculture without light
A deep-sea riddle.

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PaleoHaiku #10: Ancient Aves

Confuciusornis
A theropod lineage
Tail, teeth, and claws.

PaleoHaiku #9: Top-Heavy Cervid

Irish elk, large deer
Pleistocene ungulate with
An impressive rack.

PaleoHaiku #8: Nontrans-Atlantic

Aquatic reptile
Permian Mesosaurus
But not sea-faring.

PaleoHaiku #7: Rusophycus Recumbent

Trilobite resting
Shallow burrow, hiding well
Summer eternal.

PaleoHaiku #6: Multituberculate Thumbprint

Mammalian toes
Impressed in Jurassic sand
Minute hands and feet.

PaleoHaiku #5: Carboniferous Carnivore

Mistaken fossil
Megarachne, big spider
Now eurypterid.

PaleoHaiku #4: Grounded Sloth

Megatherium
Consuming autumn grasses
Pleistocene yearning.