Hey guys. I wanted to take a random DaDog survey and ask you which animal mentioned below is your favorite. Sorry that this took so long to upload. I don't have a good reason except that I have been going through some tough times for awhile now, which is mainly why I have had to delay chapters. I am not being driven off or threatened or anything, it's just some other things outside my FanFiction life. And I know that everyone was complaining that Amphicoelias Fragillimus wasn't really the largest dinosaur, but I'm just trying to stick to the websites and book. One book says it's 191 feet long. Dinosaurs says that it's 200 feet long. Prehistoric Wildlife says that it's 180 feet long. Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy this chapter. Keep on being awesome. Bye!
Mongolarachne, the colony living spider
Platecarpus, the bioluminescent mosasaur
Torvosaurus, the semi-aquatic theropod
Alaskan Troodon, the amazing cussing theropods of the North
Coelophysis, one in particular if you know who I mean
Thanatosaurus, the fake animal that my jerk cousin added
There is something missing from our world. The amazing animals that time has left behind. But what if we could bring them back? What if extinction didn't have to be forever? We're going back on a safari with a difference as wildlife adventurer Nigel Marven plunges into prehistory to rescue creatures on the brink of extinction. His plan is to bring them back to the safety of the present and give them a second chance.
This time, Nigel and Chiyo are returning back to ancient Egypt to save a mate for Apophis the Gigantophis, but come across some more surprises in the mangroves of massive monsters.
Welcome to the ultimate wildlife sanctuary. Welcome to Prehistoric Park.
Chapter Two- Lost Loves of the Past Part 2
The air of Prehistoric Park has started to become heated up as breeding season has finally come underway. Today, Nigel and Chiyo have prepared to go back to the Egyptian Eocene mangroves. However, Nigel is first visiting some creatures rescued off camera.
Nigel sat in the aquarium, looking into a tank full of dozens of little animals swimming around. Each was a few centimeters long with five eyes and a trunk like mouth snapping at little bits of meats, small worms, and plankton in the water. Their bodies were blue, while the eyes were a beady black.
"These are our newly rescued Opabinia" Nigel said to the cameraman next to him. "Chiyo and I have rescued mates for a few of the animals that we've found nesting and breeding areas back in their times. So far, we've captured these dozens of Opabinia, three more Jaekelopterus, three more Crichtonsaurus (we rescued Crichtonsaurus, not Crichtonopelta) seven Asiatosuchus, another Hyneria, and two Cymbospondylus. We also rescued some more Squalicorax because Chiyo and I didn't want to have to go on massive rescue sprees for species we already had next time breeding season came around. We wanted that time to focus on rescuing new species."
Just then, Chiyo came walking down the aquarium halls, soaked head to toe in water and smelling like a dried swamp (Nigel knew the smell from rescuing Ceratosaurus). Her normally red hair had a piece of water plant in it along with some sand. Her expression said I really regret what I just did.
"My goodness" Nigel said. "What happened to you Chiyo?"
"I went to Cretaceous Egypt during a drought and rescued these three really territorial Sarcosuchus. At first, they both ignored me. When one of them won, the loser tried to kill me in his frustration. I slipped several times on the shoreline when he was chasing me because it was really muddy and some type of green algae was growing all over the place. I just barely got him through the portal before I tried to capture the other male. He was showing off for a female when he saw me. After several moments of waving and shouting, they both went after me. If you think you get wet at the SeaWorld orca splash zone, then you should really get splashed by two angry Sarcosuchus."
"Well" Nigel said. "That must have been a bit of an ordeal. Well, I hope you're ready to get wet again, because we're going to the mangrove swamps of Eocene Egypt. Are you ready to go rescue a mate for Apophis?"
"Yes. Hey, what are you having Bob do? I haven't seen him for the last two days."
"Oh, just a little side project" Nigel said, cracking a smile. "Theo has been getting a wee bit more aggressive since it's mating season, so Bob and I thought of something that might calm him down. Then we might be able to place the Gyrospheres in his area. Oh, look at the time. Come on Chiyo. Extinct animals aren't going to save themselves."
As Nigel and Chiyo prepare to rescue another Gigantophis as a mate for Apophis, Suzanne is checking up on the giant serpent himself in Wadi Al-Hitan Formation. And he is not a happy camper. Or should I say swimmer?
The water of the mangrove swamp was a foamy white froth as Apophis repeatedly tried to lunge onto the boat Suzanne was on. The veterinarian was clinging onto the rail as she tried to prevent herself from falling off the deck and into the water.
Apophis jumped out of the water before his head hit the railing. A loud thunk was heard as the two collided and the great Egyptian snake slid back into the water.
Apophis was a massive animal, at nine meters long. His skin was similar to that of an African rock python and his curved teeth were every bit as sharp. When he opened his mouth, his curved ivories shone white in the sun until it was hard to tell what was water and what was his teeth. His green eyes seemed to bore into Suzanne's soul to the point where the veterinarian had shivers down her spine at all times.
"We're doing a monthly check-up on Apophis to see if he's healthy and fit to share his enclosure with other Gigantophis" Suzanne shouted over the waves to the cameraman. "Snakes in general aren't really all that well known for being territorial to snakes of their own species, but it seems as if Apophis isn't really all that happy about our visit. I'm going to take that as a good sign."
Suzanne stopped as another wave plowed into her and Apophis tried to attack fruitlessly again. His teeth temporarily slipped on the boat's deck before falling back into the water. The giant snake seemed to give up after that. This hard, cold prey could not be bested.
Suzanne let loose a sigh of relief before shouting at the captain to get her closer to look for any signs of physical injury. After several minutes of observing the giant snake from a distance, Suzanne concluded that Apophis was healthy.
"It's good that he's healthy" she said to the cameraman. "That way, we don't need to try and capture him. He's chaotic enough as he is inside his enclosure. That's why we named him Apophis, after the Egyptian mythological chaos serpent."
Almost as if in agreement, the Apophis brought his head out of the water and hissed at the boat before returning back under the watery world where he reigned as the king of chaos.
At the holding pens of Isla Sorna, Nigel and Chiyo have gotten the proper gear and equipment for their expedition to the Eocene paradise of Egypt. There, they will search for a female Gigantophis within the vast swamps and mangrove forests. However, it was not only Gigantophis that lived here. Other creatures made their home in Eocene Egypt.
Nigel and Chiyo entered the Eocene to immediately be greeted by some of the local wildlife. A number of gulls were circling overhead, cawing like modern ones. They seemed to take a particular interest in Chiyo, though mainly it was because she had a large cod and several reef fish in a large plastic bag as bait for a female Gigantophis or any other fish eater.
They walked several miles downshore before finding a shallow reef where several rocks and slabs of coral intersected with the land and the water. Nigel promptly took the fish from Chiyo before tying them all to a rock and throwing it in the water. Next, he set a camera looking into the water and at the fish before explaining his plan to a confused looking Chiyo.
"I've placed this camera here so that we can hopefully get a picture or video of some of the native water predators that come to eat the fish" Nigel said to her. "Gigantophis was mainly an early elephant eater, but they also frequently hunted in the coastal coral reefs for anything from tropical fish to sea bass to even young Dorudon. The fish are also outfitted with a pressure activated time portal. We had John place us in an area where the food is especially rich, so we should have a confirmation on whether a Gigantophis lives here or not."
Nigel finished setting up the camera and ushered Chiyo to come with him as they hiked inland. The cameraman followed Chiyo for several minutes before she explained.
"We're going inland to avoid the creatures that come onto land. Crocodiles and Gigantophis here often go on land to rest and young Basilosaurus will sometimes beach themselves trying to catch animals on the coastline. Oh, looks like we have some company."
A herd of animals that looked like a mix of pigs, tapirs, and elephants. They were dark black and grey with tiny light blue spots and pink bellies. They were currently grazing on the lush plants. In the middle of the herd fought two male Arsinoitherium over a female.
"These are Moeritherium Andrewsi" Nigel said. "They're common herbivores to this area and are the normal prey of Gigantophis, along with fish, monkeys, early manatees, small sharks, and young Arsinoitherium. They often switch between the land and water to move to new grazing grounds and get access to the aquatic plants at the bottom of the mangrove bays. They have a matriarchal system because, although they are early ones, they are elephants. They'll be extinct through climate change and competition with more successful herbivores, making them prime candidates for residency in Prehistoric Park."
As Chiyo admired the two male Arsinoitherium fighting, Nigel placed the time portal ahead of the herd. Once set up, he took out his weapon of choice to lure the herd through the portal: an apple.
The herbivores looked up from their grazing at this offering of fruit. The matriarch seemed to weigh the pros and cons of accepting fruit from primates before wallowing forward. The rest of the herd followed it, possibly thinking that she was taking them to a new grazing area or thinking that they were unsafe here.
After nearly five minutes of admiring the male Arsinoitherium fighting, one of them lost. One of the males had charged suddenly, taking a gambling shot, and missed the other male. The missed male used his large horns to stab the back left leg of the attacker before the charging male tripped in it's pain and rolled in the sand.
The stabbed male tried to get up, but the other male pushed it down once more. After another two minutes, the charged male gave up and laid down in defeat. Chiyo finally realized that the Moeritherium herd had moved on into the portal, so she focused on capturing the female.
"If I catch the female, the winning male is going to try and follow to try and mate with her" Chiyo said to the cameraman. "We'll get the losing male to charge at us through the portal. Once back in the present, I'm going to stay back at the park for the night because I'm overseeing another one of Tantor's sessions."
Chiyo pulled an orange out of her coat pocket before offering it to the female Arsinoitherium. The female turned her head at the general direction of the fruit before slowly walking towards Chiyo. Arsinoitherium was short-sighted, like rhinoceros, and largely used their sense of smell to locate threats and find food. Despite this and the horns on it's head, Arsinoitherium was related to the modern day elephants of Africa and Asia than the rhinoceros of the same environments and habitats.
Chiyo held her breath as the horned animal stopped in front of her before staring at her for a moment. After what seemed like forever, the herbivore ate the fruit out of her hand. Chiyo let out a sigh of amazement when the Arsinoitherium let her touch it. Carefully, Chiyo took out the time portal before sending the female through.
The blue flash startled the winning Arsinoitherium male and the injured one took advantage. The injured one jumped up, catching the rival male's head between his two biggest horns, before getting up.
The first winner struggled, but the injured Arsinoitherium twisted it's head back and the other bellowed in pain and discomfort. The injured one kept twisting his head in different directions before the original winner tripped.
In one quick motion, the injured male swept his head away from his neck to let the winner fall before bashing the underside of his horns on the fallen one's head. The fallen one bellowed in pain before lying down in submission. The new winner snorted before charging at Chiyo for no apparent reason.
Chiyo quickly activated the portal and the Arsinoitherium went into the twenty-first century. Nigel quickly checked to make sure she was right (she went through the portal afterwards) before Nigel turned his attention back to the defeated Arsinoitherium. He was already wandering away, now looking for more females in this massive mangrove of marine monsters.
As Nigel and the cameraman set up their camp in Eocene Egypt, Bob is building a new vehicle that is specially designed for Theo to vent his anger out on in Prehistoric Park. However, it seems as if someone is going to be visiting him. And that someone is rather feathery.
Bob was putting the sixth one of the eight tires in place when he heard a squawk above him. Before, he had been working on turning three different tractors and two trucks into Nigel's greatest terrible idea ever: the Tricero-Tractor. It was nearly impossible to flip over, had two bamboo stalks as horns, and a tire frill and padding.
The idea was that Theo could fight the Tricero-Tractor when someone was driving it. Bob had thought it was a stupid idea, but Hammond thought it would help Theo vent his anger out and be amusing to watch.
Bob looked up to see the source of the disturbance, who turned out to be none other than Phil the Phorusrhacos. The South American terror bird inspected the wheels that Bob was attaching to the Tricero-Tractor before he nudged Bob for some food.
Bob sighed, but complied, walking over to a nearby freezer room before coming out with a rabbit carcass in his hand.
"It's amazing that InGen can clone these things without them ever being alive" Bob said to the cameraman. "They use artificial wombs for cows, goats, sheep, rodents, rabbits, and horses before they create this giant glass tube full of nutrients. Once finished, they place the womb in there and wait for it to burst. The cow or such continues to grow until it's needed. Several sheep or goats can share a tube, as can dozens of rabbits or hundreds of rats and mice. This is done in some obscure InGen facilities in China, Russia, Montana, and France. John briefly considered making a large underground area in the labs as a cloning facility, but he decided that it would be too much work at the moment. One day he plans to, but that probably won't be until years after the park opens. God, darn it Phil!"
Phil had gone snooping through the building and apparently found at least two dozen worker helmets. He wore one on his head, while the rest were put into a pyramid. Phil was balancing on the top helmet somehow and watching everything below him. The hat that Phil happened to be wearing was Bob's.
"Give it back you stupid ostrich on steroids" Bob yelled at Phil when he merely used his leg to gently push Bob away. "I swear, I am going to eat you the next time Thanksgiving comes around. You know, the pyramid kind of reminds me of when I went to Egypt. The real pyramids were beautiful. One of the seven wonders of the world. What were the others?"
"I don't know" said the cameraman. "There's the pyramids, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Great Wall of China, uhhh…. the first McDonald's, Cronus the Tyrannosaurus Rex, that one phone that you still have from the eighties, and my great grandmother."
Phil didn't reply to this and Bob laughed aloud. When he finished laughing, Bob sighed as he tried to take his hat back in vain. Once it was clear that Bob wouldn't get it back through force, he used the rabbit carcass he had retrieved from the freezer room.
Phil perked up when the carcass went flying at him and he lunged to get his hooked beak into the mammal. The helmet flew off his head and Bob retrieved it with a sense of triumph.
Until Phil took and ate his ham sandwich from his lunch box.
"PHIL!" Bob yelled angrily. "That's it! I'm giving you to the saber tooths!"
Phil didn't looked concerned and he started to preen his feathers. He knew the words "saber tooths." He knew that they were the creatures that he use to compete with, but he wasn't particularly concerned. He had seen them multiple times during his escapes. They were more or less the same from when they had come here, while Phil had grown larger and stronger since being brought to the park.
Bob seemed to quickly imagine fight between the saber tooths and Phil in his head before he sagged. He had just realized that in a fight between all the Smilodon and Phil, Phil would win, if motivated by food.
"Never mind" Bob said as he sat down and sagged. "I guess it wouldn't be a fair fight for the Smilodon in the first place. I hope we never get anything more hungry than Phil (like a certain Coelophysis which shall not be named). He eats so much that I wonder if he would eat all day if he could."
The sound of an opening metal door brought Bob to see that Phil had used his beak to open the giant freezer doors. Bob decided that he had had enough of Phil today and carefully aimed his dart gun at Phil. Bob fired and the dart whistled at Phil's neck. At the last second though, Phil turned and the dart whizzed past his long neck. The dart made a painfully loud ping on the wall behind Phil before the Phorusrhacos turned his head in Bob's direction and seemed to give a mocking screech. As Bob started aiming again, Phil grabbed one more rabbit before running out of the building to escape. Bob sigh once he took off.
"They don't pay me enough for this" Bob grumbled to no one in particular. "Babysitting and tranquilizing runaway terror birds every one or two days wasn't in my job description."
The next morning in Eocene Egypt, Chiyo meets back up with Nigel to check the underwater camera to see what they had caught overnight. However, there are some angry beach goers that they'll have to get by first.
Nigel and Chiyo hid in the mangrove trees as they watched two Arsinoitherium battle it out for territory. One male had a large amount of scars from escapes from predators and battles with past rivals. The other was a female defending her calf from the overly aggressive male.
"This is a common thing that animals do" Nigel said to the cameraman. "If a male lion takes over a pride, he'll kill all the cubs of the previous pride leader to bring the females of the territory back into heat so he can mate with them. Arsinoitherium males do something similar, where they create territories and take over territories for the females within them. I guess that the previous male of this area was defeated by this one, so now the male is trying to kill the juvenile. Wow, look at the female!"
The female had managed to sink her horns into the male's back leg. The horns were dull and the male's skin was thick, but it still hurt the male.
As the male Arsinoitherium bellowed in pain, the female Arsinoitherium walked backwards. Just as the male recovered from her last attack, she charged forward and plowed into him. The male bellowed in pain before falling onto his side.
The female, seeing that the male was temporarily down, gave a strange forlorn cry to her juvenile. The young Arsinoitherium, which had been cowering in some tide pools, darted off and into the mangrove forest… and into the time portal. The female, seeing that her juvenile had vanished, stopped the fight with the male and darted after it, trying to protect it from a threat that wasn't there.
Once she barreled into the portal, Nigel deactivated it and looked back at the male. He was injured, but he would live. There was no need to bring him back to the twenty first century.
The two humans waited until the early elephant relative left until they climbed onto the rocks and started jumping from rock to rock, little by little gaining ground to the fish and camera from the day before.
After nearly seven minutes, the two time travelers and cameraman made it to the little rock island. Once the cameraman gained balance on the slippery seaweed covered stone, Nigel offered him a homemade device, similar to a telescope.
"I made these back at camp" Nigel said. "These are homemade ocean telescopes. They don't really have any magnification or anything like that but they work just fine. I'm going to peer into the water through one to see if any of the fish were taken. Normally, I would just swim down, but these waters are home to sharks, crocodiles, young Basilosaurus, and Gigantophis. And, although I would consider finding a Gigantophis a good thing, I don't want to be stuck in the water with one."
At this, Nigel shoved one end of the ocean telescope into the water, while he looked into the other end still on the surface. In the crystal clear waters below, two fish were missing and one of the pressure activated time portals had bite mark in it, clearly from something big and predatory.
"Looks like something visited last night" Chiyo commented once she saw the bite marks. "Could be any number of things."
Nigel nodded as he quickly grabbed the camera out of the water. What monsters of Egypt had visited last night while they had slept?
At Prehistoric Park, Nick is causing trouble once more for the staff members and animal residents. However, it looks like one resident isn't going to have any of his jokes. Namely, Cronus, the sub-adult Tyrannosaurus.
Nick and two other workers were standing on the Tyrannosaurus Rex observation platform when Nick had started making jokes about the theropods within. Cronus had been asleep and had been awoken from his slumber by the morons on the platform.
"Hey, Cronus, the crows called!" Nick shouted at the Tyrannosaurus Rex, referring to his black and grey coloration. "They want their feathers back!"
The humans started laughing at the lame joke before a menacing rumble came up from within Cronus's chest as the mighty theropod dinosaur rose onto his feet. Nick and the other two humans took no notice in this and continued to make stupid jokes.
"Hey, you know what the Tyrannosaurus would write as a book series for extra meat if they were able to?" Nick asked his friends.
"I don't know" the two replied. "What?"
"The Cronus Chronicles."
The three humans once more laughed at the obviously bad joke before they registered the pounding of giant feet. Cronus was walking towards them with a death glare in his eyes. He always woke up from his naps cranky.
"Hey guys, I think Chicken-Zilla is looking for a fight" Nick joked as Cronus stopped in front of them. "You wanna get the Triceratops-porcupine mixes and see who would win?"
The humans laughed once again and Cronus turned around. They didn't register Cronus lowering the front half of his body and raising his back half. But by the time they did, it was too late. Yellow urine sprayed out, covering the three humans stupid enough to antagonize the king of the dinosaurs.
"Ouch! It burns!" shouted one of the men as he tried to rub the urine out of his eyes with his urine covered hands, only making it worse.
"You're telling me!" said the other man, who was rubbing his nose and blowing it out on any dry spots on his shirt and jacket before running out and using leaves from nearby trees.
"Stupid dinosaur!" Nick shouted at Cronus as soon as he got the taste of urine out of his mouth. He had, unfortunately for himself, had his mouth open, laughing, when Cronus had launched his attack. Cronus curled his lips, as if he found it gross too, before going back to his napping spot and fell back into blissful sleep.
Back in Eocene Egypt, Nigel and Chiyo are looking at the video footage from the night before in the camera. However the question remains as to if they will find their target, a mate to the chaos serpent back at the park.
Nigel and Chiyo were looking at a laptop screen on the Ichthyosaur with Hussein looking at the map with them. The first few pictures showed seemingly nothing but long black and brown blurs before the cameras yielded the pictures of the enormously wide variety of the creatures that lived there.
Over the night, hundreds of thousands of animals had passed by. Sea bass, thousands of smaller tropical fish, Dorudon, diving Arsinoitherium, early manatees, reef sharks, seabirds diving after living fish, Moeritherium swimming on the surface, a school of jellyfish and even a trio of young Basilosaurus had been seen so far. And that had only been the activity within four hours. They still had another nine to go through.
The camera showed pictures of one Basilosaurus stealing a fish, but avoiding the portal, while another showed one biting down on a fish and a portal, sending all three back to the aquatic holding pens. This brightened up Nigel, Chiyo, and Hussein greatly.
More pictures revealed previous wildlife and others. Sea turtles had swam by commonly. Sawfish had migrated up into the mangroves to breed, passing the camera in great schools. Rays were abundant along with schools of hunting sea snakes. Sea horses had been stalking among the corals and anemones. When night had fallen, schools of glowing jellyfish had came from the open ocean to go with the currents in the reefs. Crocodiles and sharks had hunted alongside each other and an unidentifiable whale species had swam by.
"There are at least two whale species that haven't been identified in the Wadi Al-Hitan formation" Chiyo said to cameraman. "Oh, look at that picture!"
Nigel had stopped at a picture that seemingly showed nothing but dark water. But Chiyo quickly pointed to the corner of the top right half to show the others a reflective green eye. Nigel smiled. He could only think of one creature in these mangroves that had a green eye. They had found their Gigantophis.
"Hussein" Nigel said, smiling at the picture. "Let's cruise up and down the coast for a while to see if we can find the territory of this Gigantophis or where it was going. Because I have a feeling that this one wasn't alone."
At Prehistoric Park, Bob needs help with building the Tricero-Tractor. Fortunately or unfortunately, there is only one available staff member to help him with the finishing touches. And that staff member was Nick.
Bob had finished putting the last wheel in place on the Tricero-Tractor when Nick snickered for seemingly nothing.
"What's so funny?" Bob asked Nick.
"Nothing" Nick said back to Bob. "It's just the way you were bending. That reminded me on Thanksgiving when everyone was in the staff lounge and having the bowling contest."
"Oh yeah. That. I wasn't the best at bowling, was I?"
"You stink at bowling."
"You stink!" Bob retorted. "Literally. You smell like a Tyrannosaurus decided to spray you."
"That's because one did" Nick grumbled.
"Really? Who?"
"I am not going to give you the satisfaction of knowing which one it was."
"It was Cronus, wasn't it?"
"No. Maybe. Yes. How did you know?"
"Just a lucky guess. What did you do to him?"
"Nothing! He just woke up and sprayed me!"
"So… Cronus woke up from his nap and randomly decided to spray for no apparent reason."
"Well, I guess I woke him up."
"You are a first class idiot for waking him up."
"Hey! Am not!"
"Are too."
"Both of you get back to work!" the voice of John Hammond said over the radio. "Bob, don't antagonize Nick. Nick, don't antagonize Bob. I don't care if you antagonize Cronus, Nick, because you don't legally work for me, but Ludlow. If you're eaten, then it's Ludlow's fault for hiring employees that didn't know when to stop with their bad jokes."
At this, Nick turned beet red and Bob briefly wondered if the man would randomly explode. It was one of the many random thoughts to come to his head that day.
Several hours later of attentive patrolling along the coastline, Hussein believes he has found the territory of a Gigantophis. Unfortunately, he is both right and wrong.
Nigel was sipping lemonade from a glass cup when Hussein shouted "Snake on the port bow!"
Chiyo got to the side of the ship first and was the first to see the Gigantophis. It was swimming swiftly and quietly under the surface of the water, fleeing from the much larger ship to a river that went into the mangroves where it wouldn't be able to follow.
"Meet you there" Chiyo said to Nigel before jumping off the boat. The snake didn't so much as turn back and Chiyo quickly swam to the shore before climbing into the mangrove trees. From there, she jumped from tree to tree, following the gigantic snake in the river through the treetops. Watching Chiyo, it was possible to think she was part gibbon or lemur.
"Well" Nigel said to the cameraman. "Chiyo has spirit. I don't know why, but I'm not surprised. I'm going to get a canoe and follow the river, looking for Chiyo and the snake. Hussein can go back to the present and… wait, I just saw something."
Nigel looked at the ocean to see it was retreating. Water started to slowly recede back out into the ocean, revealing corals, sponges, and sea stars in the reef. Fish of all sizes swam upstream with other animals of all shapes and sizes. The birds all seemed to head inland and the monkeys of the area used the trees as a fast method of transportation inland.
"The fish and such will be okay" Nigel said. "The river is actually a channel of an estuary inland, a mix of fresh and saltwater. It's not the animals that concern me, but the ocean. The climate is changing across the globe and it's not just the currents affecting the Tethys Ocean. The shifting continental plates also caused change in the coastal environments. An earthquake could possibly have happened overnight. If it was an earthquake, we would be fine, but it looks as if a small tsunami is coming."
At this, Nigel seemed to remember that Chiyo was still in the mangroves. He quickly told Hussein to go back into the present before he got into a canoe and sailed down the river, following the animals part of the way before he saw a Gigantophis away from the main group of animals. It followed a different channel that also went inland.
"Wonder where it's going" Nigel thought to himself. "Knowing Chiyo, she's probably going to keep on…"
Nigel was disturbed when something big swung from the trees before landing and regaining balance on the canoe. Chiyo had arrived.
"Don't do that Chiyo" Nigel said. "I thought you were some animal trying to attack me. So, have you caught the Gigantophis yet?"
"Yes" Chiyo replied. "Unfortunately, it was a male. But look at what I found past those mangroves."
"What?"
"Come on!" Chiyo said before leaping into a tree overhead. Nigel shrugged before placing a portal grenade on the canoe and following. A moment after he swung into the tree and took off into the forest, the canoe vanished in a vortex of blue light.
While Chiyo shows Nigel her surprise, Suzanne is introducing two very territorial marine reptiles to each other for breeding season. The juvenile (okay, he isn't really a juvenile anymore) male Tylosaurus had been chased out of the his mother's territory and now had respectable sized territory of his own. Now, Suzanne must play Cupid for the mosasaurs. She has done it with Tyrannosaurus, Smilodon, Triceratops, Torosaurus, Woolly Mammoths, Yutyrannus, Microraptor, Gorgonops, and Dwarf Pandas before, but Tylosaurus might present an entirely new challenge for her.
Suzanne watched from the underwater walkway as the female Tylosaurus was released from the transportation ship and into the waters of the male Tylosaurus. The female tasted the water with her forked tongue before twisting around in the water to face the male.
The male just floated in the water, staring at her from a hundred or so meters away. Suzanne held her breath when the male started swimming up to the female. The grey marine reptiles showed no emotion in their eyes, their forked tongues flicking in and out like modern day snakes and monitor lizards.
Once the male reached the female, he stopped just feet away from her. Both stared at each other, bobbing up and down in the water, not quite sure what to make of the meeting.
"I'm really excited and nervous right now" Suzanne said to the cameraman. "Fossil evidence suggests that mosasaurs commonly fought and killed each other. Mosasaurs with tooth marks and broken necks have been found before, so I'm prepared to give the call to separate the two in case one of them start a fight with the other."
So far, the two had just been staring at each other, making no move of reaction nor aggression. Then, as if they had both woken up from a trance, they swam in opposite directions. Suzanne scratched her head, wondering what had happened.
"I'm not sure if I should take it as a good sign, a bad sign, or just a sign that they'll tolerate each other. I'm going to take it as a sign that they'll tolerate each other for the moment. However, we might have to move them later in the future."
Suzanne looked as the two giant mosasaurs swam away from each other in silence before leaving.
At Eocene Egypt, Nigel has finally found Chiyo's surprise. And it is a snake hater's nightmare.
A hidden lagoon, less than two miles inland, had at least a dozen Gigantophis swimming under the water, snapping up turtles and fish that lived within. Chiyo had found a Gigantophis breeding lagoon. Nigel was currently in a tree, while Chiyo attracted the attention of several of the Gigantophis.
"We're just using a portal grenade this time" Nigel said. "I honestly don't want to get close to that many large predators. If they were land predators, then maybe I would risk it, but aquatic predators are much more versatile."
"Nigel" Chiyo yelled from afar, running across the mangrove roots and away from the giant snakes. "A little bit of help would be appreciated."
Nigel was about to chuck his grenade when he heard a rumble close by, followed by snapping trees. He quickly chucked the portal grenade at the snakes before setting up the time portal. Chiyo joined him and the snakes went up in a flash of blue light. The two humans ran through the time portal, just as a thirty foot wave washed over the bay.
The next day at the Wadi Al-Hitan Formation, Nigel and Hammond are checking in on the new resident of Prehistoric Park.
The new Gigantophis were currently swimming in their enclosure while Apophis showed them who's boss. We currently was fighting another male for breeding territory in the main observation bay.
To the North, the Arsinoitherium and Moeritherium were grazing on aquatic plants found in their mangrove territory. Out in the ocean, the Basilosaurus trio played on a colorful reef, enjoying the company of small sharks that were too big for them to harm the early whales, but too small to eat. Hammond was watching them play through the reef tunnel before he spoke to Nigel.
"You know Nigel" Hammond said. "I think that Lizardlips and Lamia have been alone for too long.
Next time on Prehistoric Park, Nigel will save another Sphenacodon
(A synapsid snaps at a piece of meat hanging from a tree)
And another Megalodon.
(Lamia circles another giant shark)
But also anger some of the other creatures living with them.
(A large amphibian charges out of the water at Nigel, similar to a modern alligator)
All next time on Prehistoric Park!
Animals Rescued:
17 Moeritherium Andrewsi: Seven males, ten females
4 Arsinoitherium Zitteli: one male, three females
3 Basilosaurus Isis: two males, one female
7 Gigantophis Garstini: two males, five females
