SOURCE: Savage Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Amazing Stories , November 1963)

DESCRIPTION:"Astern, she saw something else--a long, slender neck toppled by a hideous head with great-fanged jaws. Occasionally she caught a glimpse of a sleek, seal-like body rising momentarily above the slow ground swells. She knew this thing as a ta-ho-az, or a sea lion. It was not the harmless, playful creature that sports in the waters of our own Pacific Ocean; but a terrible engine of destruction whose ravenous appetite was never satisfied.The fearsome creature was gliding smoothly through the water toward the canoe. That long neck would arch over the gunwale and snatch either La-ak or herself, probably both; or the creature would place a giant flipper on the craft and capsize or swamp it. O-aa thought quickly. She wished to be saved from La-ak, but not at the risk of her own life, if that comfortable circumstance could be avoided." (Savage Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs)

NOTES: The "sea lion" is a smaller breed of plesiosaur from the seas of Pellucidar.

HISTORY: Yup, more sea critters.