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200 million years ago, at the dawn of the age of dinosaurs, bizarre creatures stalked the water like piranhas from a primordial hell. Although capable predators that could overpower prey many times their size, they were also voracious scavengers. Upon detecting a corpse with their acute sense of smell, they would quickly locate it and begin stripping it to the bone with a combination of powerful jaws and strange blade-like legs. End transcript. ===================== Okay, so Triops aren’t quite that fearsome, but Triops cancriformis really has survived as a species for 200 million years, since the upper Triassic, and I used a real dinosaur carcass; it’s the rib cage and part of the spinal column of a modern avian dinosaur, specifically a chicken. I spent a lot of time experimenting with various sound effects for this video. For the water sounds, I taped a microphone to a camera tripod and positioned it close to a large bucket of water, which I stirred with my hands and various other objects. Using Audacity, I then cut out the best segments from the recordings, removed any intrusive pops and bangs and decreased the speed by 89% to give it a deeper and more muffled sound. I arranged the segments semi-randomly across 6 layers, with each layer panning 30%, 50% or 60% to the left or right, to achieve the shifting stereo effect. The animal sounds were a bit more complicated. I recorded myself producing various vocalisations and ended up with around 25 short clips that each …