Deinosuchus vs Titanoboa

The Battle Contestants:

Deinosuchus Riograndensis: the giant Texan alligator

Speed: 5- fast while in the water (cue the jaws music)

Power: 7- strong enough to drag full-grown dinosaurs underwater

Defense: 5- tough hide prevents large injuries

Weaponry: 4- large teeth combined with the death roll can take out even the largest of threats

Oxygen: 8- can hold its breath for a long time, rivaling even the mosasaurs

Sociability: 3- will live in pairs or trios if enough prey is around

Intelligence: 3- basic crocodilian IQ

Titanoboa Cerrejonensis: the giant anaconda relative of your nightmares

Speed: 10- extremely fast in the water

Power: 8- can squeeze the life out of forty foot long Purussaurus

Defense: 4- has thick skin, but a slender skeleton

Weaponry: 5- has strong muscles and, when it squeezes, it is equivalent to three Eiffel Towers falling on you

Oxygen: 8- has strong lungs that are equal of that to crocodiles and mosasaurs

Sociability: 4- can live in giant abundance when large amounts of prey are around

Intelligence: 2- basic snake IQ

The Death Fight:

Evolution, nature, and time are cruel tyrants. They have claimed the lives of not only us, but creatures now extinct. Now join us as we look for the most dangerous creature to ever evolve. Prepare for yourselves, as blood will spill and monsters will fall. Prepare as the ancient giants long deceased now fight for dominance. Prepare for our Prehistoric Fight Club.

A lone Deinosuchus has wandered into the swamp territory of a group full-grown Titanoboa. Normally, this wouldn't be a problem, but with a large prey shortage, the Deinosuchus has grown desperate. It has been wandering around the swamp, searching for a Hadrosaurus, Carbonemys, or Baryonyx, all of which are plentiful here, since Titanoboa only need to eat once every few weeks. However, it is about to get much more of a mouthful.

The Titanoboa stays still on the bottom of the river, watching the giant gator pass overhead. Once the jaws have passed over, it speeds towards the crocodilian, aiming at the neck. The Deinosuchus meanwhile has spotted a juvenile Titanoboa hiding in the reeds. It may not be big, but it was big enough for the alligator. The crocodilian slowly swims towards it when a sharp pain comes quickly and suddenly on its neck.

The Deinosuchus realizes that it is the adult Titanoboa and quickly does a death roll to try and shake the giant anaconda relative off. However, the curved teeth of the snake means that it only succeeds in making the wound bigger. As the Deinosuchus uses the death roll, the Titanoboa wraps around the crocodilian. After the gator tires, the snake starts to squeeze.

The Deinosuchus panics before it starts to make its way to shore. Much like modern whales, Titanoboa couldn't leave the water or else gravity would become its enemy. It would become stranded and vulnerable until it either died under it's own body weight or some other cause or high tide came and washed it back into the water.

The Titanoboa pulls its head back, making the already great wound even more massive. The crocodile continues on, driven by hunger. The younger Titanoboa has fled the scene and now it's only hope of a meal lies in the adult Titanoboa. Once it is but ten feet from shore, the snake let's go and disappears into the murky brown and green water.

The Deinosuchus rushes back into the water, needing a meal more than ever now. If it loses this snake, it will die.

The Deinosuchus follows the vibrations in the water until they stop. Then they start to come from all around it. It senses the original Titanoboa turning around to face it. Then it senses another two Titanoboa from the bottom of the river. Another is swimming above it. An additional six have surrounded it. The Deinosuchus is hopelessly outnumbered.

However, it's primitive brain allowed it to make a simple deduction. It only needed one snake to feed it. If it grabbed one snake and crunched down on its back, that snake would die instantly and it could quickly swim away from the group of snakes. They wouldn't leave their territory and wander into unfamiliar territory.

The Deinosuchus lunged at the nearest snake, which curved it's body and dodged easily and gracefully before it wrapped it's body around the gator. The Deinosuchus struggled as more snakes started curving around it's body and squeezing. The giant gator started swimming towards the shore once more, fighting the snakes constantly. Once they saw where it was heading, three of the seven snakes broke off. Once it was ten feet from shore, another three broke off.

The only one that stayed was the original one. The Deinosuchus dragged itself onto the shore, the snake still on. The two creatures just lay on the shore unable to move, the crocodilian because of exhaustion, the snake because of gravity. An hour later, a Baryonyx and her juvenile (the ones from the first fight episode) walked by the two fighters. They had been unsuccessful for nearly a week of fishing. Now they had a choice of either Deinosuchus or Titanoboa.

The Titanoboa had faithfully kept its teeth in the neck of the alligator. It hissed through the crocodilians neck, showing that even though it was beached, it was still strong. The Baryonyx then inspected the Deinosuchus. It rumbled, but couldn't open its great jaws because the snake was coiled around them. They were both easy targets, with their mouths full.

The Baryonyx female looked between the two carnivores before she made up her mind. Raising her claws, she brought them down in between the eyes of the larger and meatier Deinosuchus. The great crocodilian had been slain.

The Titanoboa was now unwrapping itself from the Deinosuchus. Although the snake couldn't swallow the gator, it was still going to eat. The Baryonyx made no move at the snake. There was more than enough meat here. She and the juvenile would eat their fill before they continued on their way. After several minutes, the great snake started wheezing and it looked as if it wouldn't survive until high tide that night. However, several minutes later, a Titanoboa burst out of the water and went flying through the air before landing and grabbing it's tail and dragging it back into the water. The snakes would wait until later on tonight for high tide to come so they could collect their prize.

The snakes would have won although they would have lost a snake, but unexpected help from a fish loving theropod unexpectedly saved the snake and fed both species. So tonight, evolution doesn't have one winner, but two. The fish loving Baryonyx and the nightmarish Titanoboa are both the winners tonight. Although that doesn't mean they won't return...

This is DaDog signing out from another chapter.

"Extinction doesn't have to be forever" ~Prehistoric Park Narrator

"Bringing the past to the present for the future" ~DaDog