by Joel Haas
Santasaurus and the Eight Tiny Pterosaurs
A concept with an illustration
By Joel Haas
B.C. stands for “Before Christmas.”
Each year, Santasaurus would sally forth in a sleigh pulled by Eight Tiny Pterosaurs. The lead pterosaur was Randolph, the Red Nosed Pterosaur. The eight tiny pterosaurs had no collars –the reins were harnessed to them by magic and they flew by willing suspension of disbelief.
What sort of presents would Santasaurus bring? Gummi Rexes? An early Apple product, the “iSore”? Candy ferns? Barbieraptors? G.I. Jurassic?
If coal had not yet formed, what did bad dinosaurs get? Copralytes or fossil wood?
It was really a moot point. Since dinosaurs had no houses, they had no chimneys.
So…
Each year Santasaurus returned to what was then the North Pole with a sleigh full of undelivered presents. This saved the expense of needing any dino elves.
Anyway, the Jurassic ended when Santasaurus, finally desperate for a chimney to land on, mistakenly flew into a smoking active volcano crater. Shortly thereafter, a giant meteorite hit the Earth creating New Orleans, Miami, and Cozumel.
The dinosaurs could not afford any of these places and were forced into Key West. They finally disappeared when even Key West got too expensive.
