Journey to the Early Jurassic of Southern Europe, back when the hills, plains and forests we're familiar with are engulfed by a tropical sea. These waters are home to a wide variety of marine life with the fish-like Icthyosaurs being one of the most common and well known. A large group of one of these "fish lizard" species, Stenopterygius, is making their annual trip to their breeding grounds in the shallow waters of what is now Austria. This voyage will not be an easy one, as the deeper ocean surrounding this sanctuary is patrolled by a massive predatory relative of their's, Temnodontosaurus.
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