Wake Up
I know I haven't been stopping by here recently. I'll hopefully keep this fresher than it's been.

Wake Up

The hundreds of miles of submerged cave passage in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula just got fifty feet longer. Global warming rose the surface of the earth a fraction of a degree last year, melting millions of cubic tons of ice and causing a small rise in ocean levels. It was just a millimeter, but this was one crucial millimeter higher than the natural rimstone dam that had been holding the water from flooding another chamber. Warm water spilled over the rimstone dam, flooding the dry chamber on the other side for the first time in millennia. The chamber was large and round, with hundreds of muddy lumps on the otherwise flat floor. The water washed the mud off these lumps, revealing eight-foot long reptilian creatues. The creatures began stirring, waking from their long hibernation. They resembed Komodo dragons with horns. They were the most poisonous creatures on earth: their bite meant a painful death within a week, and since they licked their claws frequently even a scratch from them was fatal. These were not any harbingers of doom woken by man’s disregard for the enviroment. They were just sleeping reptiles that were now very, very hungry for meat. But they were mentioned as such at a lot of funerals.