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DISCOVERY:

In November of 1954, people reported encountering large beasts within the forests of Southern China. According to the reports, the beasts had the head of a T. Rex, the body of an Iguanodon, with the large plates of Stegosaurus. After 1954, various sightings of this ghostly hybrid were becoming frequent. Not only that, these sightings were all over the place, ranging from the Lake Baikal forests, down to East Asian forests and jungles. And then people began to notice that there was a type of pattern with the sightings. As the ones in Lake Baikal were occurring during April to August. While the ones in East Asia were occuring from October to February. It wouldn't be 10 years later, that it was officially discovered and described during a scientific expedition within the Southern Chinese forests, finally putting an end to the mysterious sightings.

DESCRIPTION:

Baikaltitan nakajimaii (Nakajima's Baikal giant) is a moderately large species of large herbivorous dinosaur. Research concluded that Baikaltitan was infact a basal thyreophoran, closely related to Scutellosaurus. Compared to other basal thyreophorans, they are quite large, being the size of a stop sign and have, surprisingly, high intelligence, often being compared to elephants, crows, and even chimpanzees. They've been observed shaking trees down to reach its fruits and even communicating to other members with beak snaps and deep, low chirpings. During life threatening situations or fending off males during the mating season, they will produce loud, bellowing calls, that people claim sound like deep low pitched violin screeches, mixed with deep, aggressive gurgles. The descriptions of the sightings were not far off, as Baikaltitan possessed prominent ridges above its eyes similar to T. Rex. Its position above the ground is more diagonal, similar to the body positions seen within Therizinosauridae, though it could still move parallel above the ground just fine. The second of rows of osteoderms were very prominent and largely elongated than the rest of them. Baikaltitans possess oppasable thumbs for better grip on structures. As for the answer behind the sudden switch of sighting locations, they are migratory, moving down to East Asia to escape the bitter cold from the Lake Baikal forests. They are a common food source for a majority of Asian predators. Adults are regularly targeted by MUTOs and Wartdogs, while juveniles will be snatched away by tigers and dholes. But adults are nowhere close to being defenseless, as they will fight back whenever desperate times call for desperate measures. What they can't fight back, however, is there decreasing population. As of this year, they are Critically Endangered, with only 1,954 of them left in the wild. Illegal poaching, deforestation, urbanization, and animal competition all play a role in their population. But all hope is not lost, as Monarch Prehistory Preservation facilities are working frantically to keeping their population stable.

CRYSTAL:

Upon being first discovered and described in 1995, scientists were convinced that B. apokosmo was a subspecies of B. nakajimaii. It wouldn't be until further research that it was officially declared as it's own species, but still within the same family as B. nakajimaii is placed in. Compared to Triangle, Crystal is mostly like him, except more colorful and only resides in East and South Asia. However, Crystal also faces the same problems with his population, being Critically Endangered for the same reasons. Again, Monarch is working tirelessly to keep the population in check.​