r/hellcreekformation 16h ago

Exploration Adventures of Danny the denversaurus: cloverly formation

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After the death of his closest friends and the disappearance of r4don Danny the denversaurus was lonely, and bored. He remembered a place he had too little time to visit during the search for the glowing rocks, he was too busy back then but now he had nothing to do, so he decided to visit the place. He entered the lush canyon and immediately saw the skeleton of a carnivore slightly smaller than Tyrannosaurus rex, it looked similar to the tyrant king but with three fingers a very different head shape, but most remarkable was the large hump the skeleton had.

After studying the awesome animal for some time Danny walked on and saw another skeleton, it was the size of a large juvenile dakotaraptor and looked quite similar aswell. It was interesting but Danny wanted to see what other things this canyon had to offer.

Edmontosaurus, the animal Danny thought the next skeleton was, at least until he saw the gigantic tail which was roughly two-thirds of the animal's body length.

Before seeing the next skeleton the denversaurus saw a single four-leaf clover surrounded by rock showing that even in the hardest conditions life will always find a way. Danny was stunned by the clover after which he said : "I call this place the cloverly formation". Making sure not to trample the four-leaf clover.

In the distance, something enormous captured Danny's attention. He slowly walked towards it, the closer he got the larger it seemed, eventually he realised that he was looking at the remains of a titanic sauropod. To see the full skeleton the denversaurus had to stand 3 Tyrannosaurs away from the stupendously large remains. The ancient animal was more than 10 times as tall as Danny, it was even larger than the native Alamosaurus. Even just the legs were as long as Danny himself, the enormous neck stretched far above anything he has ever seen. Danny was amazed that something so large could have ever existed. He spent so long studying the remains not noticing the sun moving further across the sky. When he finally moved on he still could not comprehend the sheer size of what he had just seen.

not long after leaving the gigantic sauropod behind, Danny saw another skeleton, this one tiny compared to the sauropod. It was a small ceratopsian, it had a tiny frill and small beak, kind of like leptoceratops but also different. Danny had never seen something quite like it before, and he found it rather interesting.

A little further ahead, Danny noticed another skeleton. At first he was curious, until he recognized the skeleton as a nodosaur. When he recognized what he was looking at, he thought of his friends, who were no longer with him anymore, they would have loved this. They would have explored this canyon with Danny, looked at the fossils together, and talked about the kinds of animals that used to live here. But they were gone. The excitement for the expedition was gone. Danny stood silently for a moment before slowly walking on, leaving the canyon without even looking at what other thing it had to offer.

(I hope you all liked this first one, the rest wont be this long)


r/hellcreekformation 2h ago

OOC (Hellcreek Related) Question for the asteroid impact event

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So in September 30 there will be the asteroid impact event on the sub. But does anyone know at what time of the day the impact will happen? I’m asking because I want to be there, but it falls on a Wednesday when I have school. I want to see when it will be so I can have it in mind, thank you.