You are in the oceans of Europe, 182 million years ago.

The water of the Early Jurassic sea was unexpectedly warm, the sunlight filtering down in bright, dancing rays through the clear blue. You were hovering just above a cluster of tall, leafy algae, watching a school of small, silvery fish dart between the stalks. The silence of the deep was peaceful, almost hypnotic.

Then, the small fish scattered instantly. A shadow passed over you, not from a cloud, but from something vast and smooth. You froze, turning slowly.

Emerging from the murk was a creature nearly twelve feet long—a Hauffiosaurus. It was a creature of refined, lethal elegance, long-necked like its plesiosaur cousins but possessing the larger, more powerful head of a pliosaurid. Its back was a deep, charcoal green, fading to a creamy beige on its underside, perfect camouflage in the sunlit shallows. It moved with surprising grace, using its four flippers to "fly" through the water, its long neck undulating gently.

It was hunting…