There is something missing from our world. The amazing animals that time has left behind. But what if we can bring them back? What if extinction didn't have to be forever? We're going back in time on a safari with a difference, as wild life adventurer Nigel Marven plunges into pre-history 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 travels back to modern times to rescue recently extinct animals that once lived in waters throughout the world.

Welcome to the ultimate wildlife sanctuary. Welcome to Prehistoric Park.

Chapter 9- The Vanished part 2

Although it has been only a few days since Nigel's last mission he is going on another one but only after Bob has to deal with the animals he brought back in his secret mission at the dead of night.

Bob was happy with the animal species Nigel secretly brought back. Which was a change to the secret mission the night before where he brought back five more Dryosaurs because the other two were 'lonely'. One was from the Galapagos Islands while another was from mainland Costa Rica. One species consisted of four members and were the giant Pinta Island Galapagos Tortoise, the last one Lonesome George only going extinct in 2011 while the other consisted of 20 golden palm sized toads, the Golden Toad who were wiped out through a deadly fungus. It was time though to meet Nigel at the coast where they had built two tanks that went into the sea itself while a third was built in one of the rivers, all three tanks having small holes in it to allow water to continue flowing. Chiyo and Nigel were standing at the newly built dock where a grand yacht with the logo of a skeletal T-Rex proudly labelled on the side of the sail.

"What are you going to rescue this time?" Bob asked looking fondly at the yacht.

"Well we plan to put a Steller's sea cow in the tank with a cooler in it," Nigel explained "A Caribbean monk seal in the other sea tank and a river dolphin called a Baiji which we are going to rescue now."

A portal emerged at the head of the dock and the yacht sailed through the portal on its way to rescue the extinct dolphin.

The Baji lived in the Yangtze river and at its most abundance in 1950 there were 6,000. However when dams were built during Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward there habitat was diminished and despite conservation efforts the dolphin was declared extinct in 2007.

The yacht sailed quietly on the river. They had to be quiet. They had arrived in China in 1949 where Mao's rebels were on the verge of seizing Beijing so they didn't want to be found by the guerrilla forces.

"Being caught in fishing nets and the building of the Three Gorges dam largely wiped them out," Nigel explained.

Chiyo had worked with cetaceans before so knew how to attract some. With the recentness of the dolphin's disappearance they had recorded its clicks that comprised the echolocation. Chiyo dropped a microphone that emitted the communication into the murky river ready to attract the rare dolphin.

All cetaceans are sociable so the Baiji will be attracted by the clicks of its own kind.

The plan succeeded and they saw a tail fluke splash the surface further down the river. A male and two females started nuzzling the hull of the yacht with their snouts. They were two metres long and like other river dolphins were a pale grey colour. As they bobbed their heads out of the river the crew observed that the Baiji's eyes were two black orbs.

"They're shyer than their saltwater cousins," Chiyo explained "That's why there are little knowledge about them."

"We can guess that they are similar to the Amazon river dolphin," Nigel replied "I've got an idea."

He pulled out a bucket full of loach and threw them into the river where the dolphins quickly dived after. With their intelligence they learnt quickly that they could rest their heads on the surface and the fish could be thrown down their long snouts. Nigel lured them to the back of the yacht where the portal was attached to. Immediately the dolphins went through the opened portal and the yacht was teleported to Prehistoric Park. Suzanne, Bob and the twins were watching as the yacht emerged from the portal. Abi laughed as she saw one of the dolphins jumped out of the water.

"I've named the male Qi Qi and the females Zhen Zhen and Su Su," Nigel yelled at the group on the river bank who were throwing fish into the water which was now bubbling. "We're going now to get a Steller's sea cow."

Nigel is now going back to the seas of the north Pacific to the Commander Islands off modern Russia. They were the larger cousins of the manatee and dugong so they were hunted to extinction within 20 years of their discovery.

All the non-Neanderthal crew members were wearing coats as the yacht bobbed up and down on the north Pacific waters. Below them was a massive kelp bed where they could see two distorted murky shapes down in the undersea field.

"The Steller's sea cow was the largest of the sirenians which comprised of manatees and dugongs," Nigel explained "They were discovered in 1741 and with their slow speed and thick blubber they were hunted to extinction. I think I can see two now."

"How are we going to rescue them?" Chiyo asked.

"Just wait."

As Chiyo reluctantly hears Nigel's plan Bob and Muldoon take the twins to look after the most recent additions.

The great mesh of the Haast's eagle aviary could be seen for a wide area on Isla Nublar, despite the fact that it was dwarfed by the empty one built on the coast. They entered a small section in the aviary that separated the entrance from the eagle's flying space. A carcass of an animal was to be placed on a pole to be put into the ground of the aviary. It would represent the prey that the raptors were used to hunting. They worked quickly and managed to put the pole firmly in the ground.

Bob and Muldoon however haven't realised that if the eagle eats moa it would also eat humans.

There was a blur and Bradley fell onto his back. One of the eagles had swooped down and now was flying back up to the roof of the aviary to take another swoop. The second took another swoop but this time at Abi who ducked last minute, the talons just catching her bun making it unravel. As the first started to take another swoop they managed to escape out of the eagles reach.

"You two aren't going near any carnivores now!" Bob said panting.

"Oh come on dad!" Bradley moaned.

"It was just a onetime thing," Abi complained.

"I have to agree with your father," Muldoon replied "Anyway the herbivores are just as exciting for you, even sloths here are a handful. You can still look at the carnivores but not before seeing one last animal."

"The Rex?" Bradley asked hopefully.

"No way," Bob interjected "A herbivore that we haven't told you about yet. I've talked to your mother and she said you can look at the Tyrannosaurs as long as you go nowhere near them."

Back in 18th century North Pacific Nigel is ready to rescue to sea cows from imminent extinction.

Nigel and Chiyo dived into the bitter sea with special heated wetsuits to keep them warm. They each held a yellow cube which Nigel wanted to test for a future mission. They descended down into the kelp forest and saw two nine metre long sea cows who had a fluke similar to the dugong. Both were grazing at the base of the kelp until they saw the two divers and swam curiously towards them.

"This is why they went extinct," Nigel said through the communicator in his mask "It made them easy prey for sailors."

They got so close that Nigel and Chiyo could stroke the rough hide of the sea cows. After swimming with the peaceful animals they pressed a button on the side of the cubes which activated the portal sending the benevolent animals to Prehistoric Park.

"Come on I'm freezing now," Nigel laughed.

The group sat on a small boat in the sea cow tank as the long grey mammals sometimes surfaced for air. Where they had built the tank was where the mountains channelled air to keeping the water cool to simulate the North Pacific waters. Bob had cleverly planted a kelp bed for the sea cows to feel at home with a few animals that they would have seen at the time; including a male and female sea otter who was swimming on their backs cracking sea urchins on their stomachs.

"I heard you had a nasty run in with the Haast's eagle," Chiyo laughed.

"Yeah," Bradley replied "Nearly took Abi's head off."

"What's the last animal," Bob asked.

"Caribbean monk seal," Nigel replied "We need to be going now to rescue some."

The Caribbean monk seals used to live from Belize to St Kitts but their docile nature and blubber made them quickly hunted as well as overfishing depleted their food source. By 1952 they had all vanished.

With the recentness of the seals extinction the crew had no need to hide the yacht, only replace the sail so no one in the early fifties knew about Prehistoric Park.

"We need to be careful about opening the portal," Nigel said "Everybody's panicking at this time so the flash of the portal may be interpreted as an atomic blast. According to Hammond's paradox we might cause World War Three because we didn't come back to cause it in the first place. We can't have President Truman thinking that the Soviets have dropped the bomb."

With the rareness of the seals it took a very long time to find them. They had found a pod of four very malnourished seals bobbing along the surface. Despite the ferocious hunting that was depleting their numbers they were still friendly to the crew. Nigel had a plan. He dropped the back of the yacht so it touched the water and scattered fish guts across the deck. Instantly the hungry seals flopped onto the deck, adding to the smell of fish. One giant male yawned revealing rows of sharp teeth for his fish diet.

"We have a population of Hawaiian and Mediterranean monk seals at the park so we can put these with them, they won't interbreed so no issues will rise up."

In an hour the extinct monk seals were fed up and swimming happily with their critically extinct relatives but the day was not properly finished yet.

Abi and Bradley were blindfolded as they were lead to a fence. As they placed their hands on the railing the blindfolds were taken off. Abi gasped as she saw the lone male Ceolodonta rubbed his horn on the grass, he had been doing this regularly to remove the remains of a winter coat on his face.

"Wow a woolly rhino!" they both said.

"That's not the best part," Nigel said. There were calls in the Neanderthal language as something was brought forward. Now both of them gasped. Martha and Ellie the two mammoths were being led up to them by Suzanne.

"Meet Martha and Ellie," Nigel said "If Martha likes you for the rest of your work experience you can work with them as amends to not being able to work with the carnivores. We would let you go near the male Torn but he doesn't like company."

Martha however did seem to like the human company and extended her trunk for the two to stroke. Ellie then walked up to them and did the same. What could be better work experience than one which involved stroking mammoths?

"In a bit do you want to see the juvenile Rex called Cronus?" Bob asked "He's the one that almost ate me and Nigel."

An hour later they were sitting in the Pinta Island Galapagos Tortoise exhibit for a briefing.

Nigel gave a slice of lettuce to a male tortoise as another snapped at another slice next to him. They had put a pond in for the Golden Toads so they both lived in the same exhibit. Abi was now holding an olive coloured female in her hand and the toad was croaking. Nigel had rescued them at breeding time so the males were croaking to each other.

"The reason that I specifically chose to save the eagles and aquatic animals was to test two devices for Hammond's specific mission to four time periods. The first is to England in the Late Jurassic to rescue a giant marine reptile…"

Next time Nigel travels back 150million years to save a giant pliosaur.

A giant pliosaur swims up to the camera.

The triceratops make a nest.

A Triceratops stands over a nest.

And the first dinosaurs in 65million years hatch.

Rescued this chapter:

5 Dryosaurus 3 female, 2 male

4 Pinta Island Galapagos Tortoise 2 male, 2 female

20 golden toads 10 female, 10 male

2 Steller's Sea cows 1 male, 1 female

3 Baiji 2 female, 1 male

4 Caribbean monk seals 1 male, 3 female