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"Roughly human sized pack hunters that live in the extreme pressures of deep sea trenches, they are descended from similar creatures that lived in the Cretaceous period. Following hijinks between the films protagonists and antagonists, they break through the deep sea thermocline and emerge on the surface… to hunt! (their diet mostly appears to be evil mercenaries) In the 1999 book the film was based on they originally meant to be Kronosaurus that had somehow evolved gills (yeah, the books get pretty wild). Look, apparently in cannon they are a species of Ichthyostega (which is an amphibian, thus would not qualify for this tournament) but look at them! They have scales! Yes they can breathe underwater, but they also live in deep sea trenches and can still wander about on land (not to mention no issues of explosive decompression when they get out of the deep sea) so as far as suspension of disbelief goes, we've already left that far behind!"