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.

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 #10: Prodigious 'Possum

Diprotodon was a marsupial that
Weighed 700 times that of a cat
If they ever met
I would certainly have bet
That the cat would have become very flat.

PaleoLimerick #9: Beneath a Theropod Darkly

Oryctodromeus is a very long name
But it’s descriptive, so hold all your blame
With arms as digging tools
And long legs, it broke rules
A burrower of unparalleled fame.