I had a dream where things were trying to eat me, which started off with my brain attempting to fit the mythical basilisk into a biologically plausible framework. My brain settled on a species of giant monitor lizard that looked a bit like a land-adapted moasaur and produced a sticky, yellow venom that it left lying in patches on the ground and strung between trees, which acted as a contact poison and killed or incapacitated any prey that got it on their skin.
After nearly getting eaten by the basilisk, I spent a while trying to avoid being eaten by a spinosaurus, and later by a pack of spinosaurus, and I was 'saved' by a meteroite impact that also nearly killed me.