PaleoHaiku #2: Echinoderm Unassembled

Crinoidal limestone
Filled with bodily pieces
Portraying decay

PaleoHaiku #1: Arachnoeros

Dear eurypterid
My Silurian beauty
Let me be your prey

PaleoLimerick #6: Komodo No Mo'

Megalania was much more than a lizard
With a gigantic stomach and gizzard
With recurving teeth
This varanid bequeathed
Lacerations that sliced, diced, and scissored.

PaleoLimerick #5: Permian Pinhead

A synapsid with a diminutive head
Was barely aware of itself getting fed
With low-quality fodder
It was a very slow plodder
No wonder, by the Triassic, it was dead.

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.

PaleoLimerick #3:Evolving Tastes

A gymosperm glanced at its seed
And said, “What else do I need?”
The bribe of a fruit
That tastes good, to boot
Caused mammals and birds to take heed.

PaleoLimerick #2: Ancient Avian Economics

Genyornis was an oversized duck
That waded through Pleistocene muck
Its gigantic feet
Contained little meat
But her rump was worth more than a buck