Here Turtle Turtle
Username: doomsayer
Pref list: S5, S9, S8, S4, S3, S7, S6, T3, T2, T1, T5, T4, S2, S1
Favorite Prehistoric Creature: The Megalodon!


Questionable Paleo Art: "The long-necked sauropod Mamenchisaurus" by Sergey Krasovskiy


Favorite Fossil: Fossils of the earliest-known fungus, Tortotubus, were discovered by paleontologists in Scotland in 2016. Paleontologists estimate that the fossil is about 440 million years old. Not only is the Tortotubus fossil the oldest fungus, it is the oldest fossil of any strictly land-based organism ever found. Tortotubus has cord-like structures that are similar to modern fungi. These structures are also seen in other land-based organisms and scientists believe that they helped Tortotubus spread out and colonize land surfaces. Tortotubus and other early fungi played an important role in forming the soil and nutrients that were needed for plants and animals to transition onto land.


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Rising From Beneath sees his brother in such a state and just exhales in pity. "Very well brother, I will distract these turtles for you. You know, I did quite a good job in taking care of some pups in another booth some days ago. Handling these should prove to be just as easy."

He sauntered over to the sound of activity closer to the shore to see nearly a dozen of the strange turtles chasing each other or participating in friendly shell clashing. He stepped up to them, making sure to tap his hoof on a rock to get their attention. When many of them were heading towards him, he back away slowly towards the water line. He was much faster on land, so a chase in the water would at least be for fair for the creatures.

As planned, the turtles started to give chase as he galloped in the shallow water towards what he knows is a living coral reef. There, he aimed to distract the turtles with the colorful fish that lived in the area. Using his frill to agitate the water, he induced the fish peacefully living in the reef to school which caused the turtles to circle around them. There would most likely be some predation to happen here, but that's just how nature works and if it distract them for even longer, then that works for him.

Here Turtle Turtle
Username: HuniPi
Pref list: T3, T5, T4, T6, T2, T1, S7, S6, S9, S1, S2, S8, S3, S4, S5
Favorite Prehistoric Creature:

Questionable Paleo Art: (Include name and artist here)

Favorite Fossil: Elephas

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Here Turtle Turtle
Username: Fasti
Pref list: S2, T5, S5, S3, S4, S1, S7, S9, S8, S6, T6, T2, T4, T3. T1
Favorite Prehistoric Creature: Saber-Toothed Tiger (a little funny, it matches a new kin of mine xD)

Questionable Paleo Art: “Sabellowe” F. John, Germany 1903

Favorite Fossil: Dactylioceras remember me of Pokemon, when I choosed omanyte.

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How your kin would keep the strange-shelled turtles entertained?
Big Cat tried different things to find out what the turtles liked and didn't like.

"Let's have a race!" she suggested and went to the turtles. "Ready?" she looked at them. "GO!" and she ran away, the wind in her fur. When she was on the other side of the hill and looked back, they realized that the turtles hadn't gone far yet. She went back to them: "What's wrong, don't you want to race?" she asked.

A turtle replied, “We’re not that fast in this area.”

Big Cat thought for a while, "Then I'll have to find something else for us." How about something completely different? “Do you want to go treasure hunting?” she asked.

"A treasure hunt?" the turtle looked up happily. "That sounds fun, yes let's do that!"

Big Cat was beaming. "Take some sun, I'll get everything ready, I'll be back in a moment." With just those words she was off. In no time at all she picked up various small items, such as branches, flowers and berries, and came back to the turtles.

She placed her items in front of them, on a rocky surface so everyone could take a look, without the leafy grass in the way. Then she explained "The game works like this, you can see some items here that I collected not far from here. They are all within reach of your head, sometimes hidden under bushes or little rocks. The goal is to find all the items seen here and bring it to me. Whoever does this first wins!"

The turtles didn't need to be told twice, they waited for the start signal and then disappeared into the forest.
Who will win?

Here Turtle Turtle
Username: Lirilei
Pref list: T5, T4, T2, T1, T3, T6, S3, S7, S4, S2, S1, S5, S6, S9, S8
Favorite Prehistoric Creature:

Questionable Paleo Art:

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Favorite Fossil: Don't really have a fav, so just found a cool one. Enjoy a tiny fossilized crab!

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Username: Scaramouche Fandango
Pref list:T5, T6, S6, T1, T3, S2, T3, S5, T4, S1, S8, S4, S7, S9, S3
Favorite Prehistoric Creature: Necrolemur antiquus! In lieu of an article, here’s my Tumblr post about it.

Questionable Paleo Art: This is the first reconstruction of a mammoth, done by Roman Boltunov, a Russian merchant who bought its tusks and saw the carcass in the melting permafrost. Two years after he drew it, it was sent to Mikhail Adams, a botanist at the Imperial Academy of Sciences, who could only describe it as “very incorrect.”

Favorite Fossil: I’m in love with the Chicago Archaeopteryx

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Strange Creature knew exactly how to entertain turtles. And tegus, although they looked pretty self-contained for the moment. They could be like that sometimes. No, it was the turtles that needed attention, and for... most turtles, at least, that meant food. The problem was that these did seem to be sea turtles, which tended to eat fairly specialized diets- primarily jellyfish. Not the big floating ones some kin kept as pets, the little ones that lived in the sea and stung your ankles while you were wading. And those were hard to gather because they'd just slip through any kind of trap; even creatures as dextrous as lemurs had a hard time catching them, and there was no way on the Motherfather's green earth that she was going to harvest jellyfish in a turtle shell and then... offer it to turtles.

That would be pretty messed up.

Fortunately, another source of nutrition immediately came to mind- sea grass. The serrations on their beaks had evolved perfectly to crop this underwater delight, and thanks to the shallow waters of the inland ocean, it was easy to find and pull up. She collected as much as she could carry and brought it back, scattering it about so the turtles would have to work for it a little bit. She didn't know how good they were at solving food puzzles, or how motivated they were; they tended to be less... voracious than giant tortoises, in her experience, although they were certainly appreciative of the treat. She smiled as she watched them tear into the salty snack with gusto. This would keep them busy for... well, as long as she could harvest sea grass!

Here Turtle Turtle
Username: Starrydance
Pref list: T5, S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, T1, T2, T3, T6, T4, S7, whatever I missed math is hard
Favorite Prehistoric Creature: plesiosaur

Questionable Paleo Art: (Dinosaurs are Flippin Fabulous by @thingsbydiana)

Favorite Fossil: sue in the Field Museum, in the Dresden Files, Dresden uses magic to summon the spirit of Sue back and rides her to battle. (Tip: Trexes dont corner well)

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Here Turtle Turtle
Username: peanutbutter
Pref list: s2, s9, s8, s4, s5, s6, s1, s3, s7, t1, t6, t5, t2, t3, t4
Favorite Prehistoric Creature: Ammonites have always been my favorite, even if they're just basically shells at this point

Questionable Paleo Art: (Include name and artist here)

Favorite Fossil: A. subcardiformis which is a really pretty and suuuper defined shell imprint!

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Here Turtle Turtle
Username: Gl!tch~
Pref list: S7, S1, S2, S3, S5, S6, S4, S9, S8, T1, T6, T3, T5, T4, T2
Favorite Prehistoric Creature: Triceratops

Questionable Paleo Art: Promotional Art for In the Time of the Dinosaurs by David Mattingly

Favorite Fossil: Ammonite

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Here Turtle Turtle
Username: frostypeaches
Pref list: S6 S2 S1 T6 S3 S5 T4 T5 S7 S9 S4 S8 T3
Favorite Prehistoric Creature: Stegosaurus
https://www.science.org/content/article ... ads-museum

Questionable Paleo Art: by Julia Smorochynska

Favorite Fossil: Helix fossil

Coloring Page: -- sorry cant do it on mspaint it looks too ugly
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Here Turtle Turtle
Username: subducting
Pref list: S2 S1 T5 S6 S8 S9 T4 S7
Favorite Prehistoric Creature: I really like sinosauropteryx - we know what colour it was!

Questionable Paleo Art: Diplodocus by Oliver Hay

Favorite Fossil: I know it’s a cliche but the iconic complete berlin arhaeopteryx fossil was a pivotal part of my dinosaur phase, it’s so beautiful and it really shows the archaeopteryx articulated like a real living thing, the feather impressions, god it’s so cool….

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Going to go ahead and close to roll!

So, since there are more prizes than entrants, we are going to do two rounds of rolls!
I'll roll until everyone who entered has a prize and then do it again, so some people might walk away with two familiars if their pref lists work out that way!

1. doomsayer
2. doomsayer
3. doomsayer
4. doomsayer
5. doomsayer
6. HuniPi
7. HuniPi
8. HuniPi
9. HuniPi
10. Fasti
11. Fasti
12. Fasti
13. Fasti
14. Fasti
15. Fasti
16. Lirilei
17. Lirilei
18. Lirilei
19. Lirilei
20. Scaramouche Fandango
21. Scaramouche Fandango
22. Scaramouche Fandango
23. Scaramouche Fandango
24. Scaramouche Fandango
25. Scaramouche Fandango
26. Starrydance
27. Starrydance
28. Starrydance
29. Starrydance
30. peanutbutter
31. peanutbutter
32. Gl!tch~
33. Gl!tch~
34. Gl!tch~
35. Gl!tch~
36. FrostyPeaches
37. FrostyPeaches
38. FrostyPeaches
39. FrostyPeaches
40. subducting
41. subducting
42. subducting

2 rerolls!

1. doomsayer
2. doomsayer
3. doomsayer
4. doomsayer
5. doomsayer
6. HuniPi
7. HuniPi
8. HuniPi
9. HuniPi

Okay, round two!

1. doomsayer
2. doomsayer
3. doomsayer
4. doomsayer
5. doomsayer
6. HuniPi
7. HuniPi
8. HuniPi
9. HuniPi
10. Fasti
11. Fasti
12. Fasti
13. Fasti
14. Fasti
15. Fasti
16. Lirilei
17. Lirilei
18. Lirilei
19. Lirilei
20. Scaramouche Fandango
21. Scaramouche Fandango
22. Scaramouche Fandango
23. Scaramouche Fandango
24. Scaramouche Fandango
25. Scaramouche Fandango
26. Starrydance
27. Starrydance
28. Starrydance
29. Starrydance
30. peanutbutter
31. peanutbutter
32. Gl!tch~
33. Gl!tch~
34. Gl!tch~
35. Gl!tch~
36. FrostyPeaches
37. FrostyPeaches
38. FrostyPeaches
39. FrostyPeaches
40. subducting
41. subducting
42. subducting

1 reroll!

1. doomsayer
2. doomsayer
3. doomsayer
4. doomsayer
5. doomsayer
6. HuniPi
7. HuniPi
8. HuniPi
9. HuniPi
10. Fasti
11. Fasti
12. Fasti
13. Fasti
14. Fasti
15. Fasti
16. Starrydance
17. Starrydance
18. Starrydance
19. Starrydance
20. peanutbutter
21. peanutbutter
22. FrostyPeaches
23. FrostyPeaches
24. FrostyPeaches
25. FrostyPeaches