"The Fog Horn"
Drawn by the deep, booming sound of its foghorn, the last of a vanished species of prehistoric ocean reptiles makes a remote lighthouse the object of its lonely affections.
"Out there in the cold water, far from land, we waited every night for the coming of the fog, and it came, and we oiled the brass machinery and lit the fog light up in the stone tower," Bradbury wrote. "And if they did not see our light, then there was always our Voice, the great deep cry of our Fog Horn shuddering through the rags of mist to startle the gulls away like decks of scattered cards and make the waves turn high and foam."
But would dinosaurs -- the creature resembles a long-necked plesiosaur -- actually sound this way? Actually they might: Studies of birds, the living descendants of dinosaurs, suggest that long necks serve as amplifiers, and many dinosaurs are thought to have possessed deep voices.
Image: A long-necked plesiosaur model at the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre in Morden, Manitoba. (Loozrboy/Flickr)