Odd, from what I understood, it should haven't had gotten as much attention as it did

Ronnie: I thought people hated the Spinosaurus?

L.L. Tre'Ron: I figured it would be a good way to get fans of both universes

Waveangel: Or have returned


Isla Sorna had a wide range of grassy plains, lengthy rivers and swamps, great rainforests and other niches capable of serving a wide range of habitats for a wide range of dinosaurs.

However, some areas of the island had never been quite colonized by Dinosaurs.

The upper slopes of the dormant volcano, where snow would come down, was a place that few dinosaurs would visit, and none would live in on a year round basis.

Some would come to lay eggs in the ground here, as few egg thieves would come around to steal them as the nearby volcanic activity kept the soil warm. But those were only the more primitive dinosaurs who didn't really take to having family units, such as swarm instinctive Compies. As it would seem, most other dinosaurs would protect their nests. The main exceptions, aside for the mostly extinct Triassic and early Jurassic dinosaurs were Sauropods, whose size would make parenting have a 10 percent success rate and a 90 % squash rate for infant mortality, without factoring in predators, and they could not get up the slopes to this area, instead laying their eggs around the volcano's base.

"Why did you drag me up here?"

So, if someone was on the island still, making Dinosaurs without the Lysine deficiency, the mountain slope was one of the best places to do it. Few cameras were up here,

"Well, Sarah forced me, and your the guy who made them" Malcom commented to Doctor Wu, the young Asian scientist who had been assigned to the monitoring group due to the fact he was the expert on what was done to the dinosaurs genetic structure.

"That, and you can figure out what else on this island doesn't have an lysine problem...though why that actually affects them..." Sarah had never figured that out. Most animals couldn't produce Lysine naturally...

"It's a, lengthy explanation" Henry commented as they approached a mountain lake. Clear and shimmering, the lake seemed to be somewhat lifeless, well in the water anyway. Burrows were all around it, as were hardy plants.

"What's with all the burrows...did Hammond import Prairie dogs or something?" Malcolm commented sarcastically.

"Unch"

The trio turned, surprised at that, vaguely mammalian call as they saw the small creature that was looking at them.

The creature was the right size for a prairie dog, but had little tusks and was always on four legs. It had leathery skin with no hair, vaguely like a dinosaurs.

There were also about a dozen of them visible. All of them making that 'unch' noise at them.

"What the hell are those things? I can't tell if those are mammals with some disease, or the Compie's hillbilly cousins"

"Ian, don't insult the wildlife"

As Sarah said that, one tried to bite Ian's foot.

Jerking it away, Ian barely restrained a rebuttal and a visit to the couch as a result.

"These...I could have sworn I saw them somewhere before...and not in the lab" Wu thought for a moment as the little...monstrosities seemed to get over them and started to ignore them and resume using their mouths to rip off branches to bring into their burrows. Their many squabbles showed that they were no where near as social as they appeared. Whatever they were, they were not prairie dogs.

"Wait...this is impossible..." Wu finally realized what the little things were.

"Sure, because on an island home to scientifically recreated dinosaurs, anything is impossible" Ian pointed out.

"No...we called the Park Jurassic Park because Mosquito's first evolved there towards its end around 150 million years ago. Part of the reason most of our dinosaurs are Cretaceous is due to this. What Dinosaur blood we could get from earlier was much rarer, we had to rely on other forms of trapped DNA. While Amber did exist at least as far back as the Carboniferous, the age of giant insects, a uniform method for extracting their DNA didn't."

"So what, these things are Triassic?"

"No, earlier. They are a Permian species, called Diictodon. They lived in deserts and survived one of the world's most extreme extinctions in the Permian-Triassic extinction event. It made the 65 million years ago look like a cakewalk. We had no DNA even close to this era of evolution"

"So, they aren't yours?" Ian pointed out as Sarah was observing the plants.

"None of these shrubs have Lysine...looks like we have a second species that doesn't belong here"

"So, Spinosaurus and Diictodon...a Super Predator and a Survivor...what do they have in common, why did someone bother to create both" Ian mused in thought "OW...and can we leave this killer chipmunks alone"

"Technically they're early reptile-mammal transitory species..."

"Wu, spare me"

A few days later, off Island of death

No signs of human life were found on the slopes of the Isla Sorna volcano, though they did leave a few new camera feeds up there just in case.

The Diictodon quickly became Animal Planet's newest stars, and the feed revealed a new, Lysine missing resident. The lake around the Diictodon's little town was home to a colony of prehistoric amphibian known as Koolasuchus. One of the last, it lived during the Cretaceous, and offered a possible insight into what was going on.

"Koolasuchus was one of the last prehistoric animals that Ingen managed to obtain DNA from. We were actually surprised to get it's DNA, from some pieces of DNA found in amber mined from the southern end of Victoria, Australia, around the dinosaur Cove site. It had been a tricky site, only yielding DNA for Muttuburasaurus and a hell of a lot of blanks, then we got the DNA of Koolasuchus, as well as the DNA of other 'Polar Dinosaurs' like Leaellynasaura, Atlascopcosaurus and Minmi. Sadly, we weren't able to bring them back, for two days later the hurricane hit

"Minmi!?"

"Early Anklysaurid" Sarah explained. "Was once the shortest named Dinosaur"

"But this does suggest that it is an Ingen scientist, or someone with access to our genetics. That narrows down the field considerably: for of the scientists who had worked on Isla Sorna who have the skills to make these creatures: two are dead" One from a car accident, the other from being mauled by a Cassowary "One is imprisoned in Iran" they didn't like 'playing allah' "and three are working on genetic mapping on modern species. There is only one scientist who should have the ability to do this, and she had a great issue with Lysine"

"Dr. Laura Sorkin"


"Born to a chicken farmer in Arkansas, Laura Sorkin was a brilliant geneticist but with a number of flaws. Aside for her smoking, a habit she repeatably tried to kick, she was an extreme animal rights activist. She was repeatably arrested during protests and has sent at least three death threats to the owners of zoos, and may have murdered the owner of a menagerie, it was never proven. However, she also hates me"

"Really Henry, because compared to half of Ingen's employees, your not half bad?" Ian commented

"You never had to work with her. She was the original choice to be the head geneticist, but she did not have people skills. Her attempts to get the board to allow her to spend the extra time to completely repair the dinosaur genomes, as oppose to just patch them up..."

"With Frog DNA, which caused breeding..."

"Yes Ian, I realize I was an idiot. I had originally wanted to use a wide range of bird, lizard and frog DNA, based on the particular creature: for example using bird DNA for Tyrannosaurus or Velociraptor, but the board shot me down"

"Hopefully you wouldn't have used Komodo Dragon or Monitor Lizard DNA, for the females of that species can lay eggs unfertilized by males, that contain males in isolated, same sex..."

"Science was not aware that they could do that in the 80's Sarah, but I agree that somehow, it would have gone wrong. Breeding Dinosaurs, flying Velociraptors...but I can't change the past...if I did, she'd have gotten her chance to be head geneticist and we'd be discussing what dinosaurs should be in Jurassic Park Europe"

"So, what did happen to this Doctor Sorkin anyway?" Sarah asked.

"She remained on Isla Nublar during the incident, but no body was ever found. I always assumed she was eaten"

"Yeah, but when is anyone ever really dead?" Ian commented.

"Just because you were dead, legally, for a short period of time..." Sarah found that joke to be really, really old.

"We thought Dinosaurs were dead, and Ingen brought them back. I still don't believe that Utahraptor is gone from the island..."

"The single pack Ingen made was crushed in a rock slide" Sarah reminded him.

"I don't trust Raptors to die...WHAT THE HELL!" Ian had, by chance, caught sight of one of the monitors from the Sorna cams, and saw something...


On the largest river in Isla Sorna, where the Spinosaurus attacked, Camera 01B-03M captured a herd of Triceratops in trouble.

The huge, three horned and large crested dinosaurs of legend surrounded a trio of young in the center of a little Musk Ox style circular defense, as the Island's sole Gigantosaurus.

The beast, a ton heavier than the adult Rex on the island, and 13 feet long, was snarling as it tried to get at a vulnerable Triceratops, who repelled it again and again with their horns.

The beast, barely escaping a leg injury from one of the older Triceratops, managed to grab another by its frill. The poor creature yowled in pain as the Gigantosaurus dragged it a bit forward, ready to bite the vulnerable neck...

URNNNNN

When something long and white impaled it through the chest. As the injured Triceratops limbed back to its herd, they began to prepare for the new threat.

The creature was just as tall as the Gigantosaurus it had slain, with a twin pair of tusks just as long. Short, coarse brown hair covered the beast, but take away the size extremes, and the hair, and you had a modern creature.

Gigantosaurus was extinct once more, by the hands of a Mammoth


"It's a...it's a..." Wu began to sputter and shock.

"A Mammoth...a Male Columbian if its non polar coat and musk like aggression is taken note of" Sarah pointed out. "And, considering the diet of Elephants and its age...it's just like the Spinosaurus"

"Super Predators, Hell Gophers, Oversized Newts and now a Mammoth...what do they have in common, besides being extinct, and where did someone get DNA from a Mammoth who didn't get frozen? Can Amber even come from that time period?" Ian asked in shock.

"It can't, but he found a way...and she knew about it" Wu said absently as the married couple gave the Asian geneticist utterly confused looks.

"My predecessor as head geneticist had been planning on obtain DNA of extinct creatures, but not in my way via amber. He had, some other way of doing it."