“Once in dinosaur times the fish ripper ruled the sea. It ripped big and little fish out of the sea. It lived around Jurassic times and eats a lot of fish every day. It has rough scales and teaches the younger ones to fly and catch their fish. This was the best dinosaur I could do. It can swim fast and protect the younger Rippers from bad sea monsters. It can breathe underwater for a little bit but must swim up for air after. It lives and sleeps on the rock with its younger family or sometimes in caves when it is bad weather outside. Other dinosaurs cannot catch Fish Ripper because he is fast and lives on the dangerous rocks. ”

“Fish ripper is a pterosaur, but one that has lost its powers of flight. We have that nowadays - there are plenty of birds that have lost their flying abilities and are perfectly well adapted to life on the ground, or in the water. The penguin is a good example here. In the Fish ripper, the wing membranes are much reduced and form a flat fin-like structure along the neck and the body. It hunts on the bottom of the shallow seas, using its membranes as a kind of a camouflage net, blending in with the sandy bottom, like skates and rays do. When a fish comes too close, the elongated body loops up to catch it, like a snake striking, and the Fish ripper makes its way to the surface to eat it.



Although the pterosaurs had become warm-blooded, the Fish ripper has resorted to the cold-blooded metabolism. This allows the animal to hold its breath underwater for long periods of time. Modern crocodiles are like this - cold-blooded, although they evolved from warm-blooded ancestors.”

by Dougal