Alright, time to get this story rolling again!

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After a short rest, Nigel's team returns through the time portal. This time, they decide to head toward a more humid landscape.

On the otherside of the portal, the group finds themselves before a huge swamp. The sounds of frogs and insects fill the air, as does the rather repulsing smell of the swamp.

"Where are we now?" asks Alice, "Florida?"

"Yes. This is Florida, 12.7 million years ago" answers Tristain.

"Well, then, it hasn't changed too much, has it?" remarked Vera.

"No, it hasn't. NOW LET'S GO FIND SOME ANIMALS!" remarked Tai.

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Meanwhile, back at the park, Suzanne is checking on the Macrodelphinus. She's heard about what the team had to go through to get them, and she might have a theory as to why they acted so oddly.

To test it, she simply examines the dolphin's sides. Sure enough, she finds what she was looking for: exposed indents where the animals ribs are.

"This is what I was worried about. These whales are starving. They must not have eaten for months when they arrived at the shallows, and beached themselves out of desperation to get food. That's the only reason they'd risk leaving the water to attack a land animal."

In the wild, animals like these would likely have ultimately succumbed to their hunger and died. Here, however, they will get a second chance.

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Meanwhile, back at the Terrror Bird Exhibit, Bob is working on a new project.

The Bathornis have been acting odd in their exhibit, and Bob thinks he might know why.

"Now, these birds always stay near the river in this pen, even when it gets really hot in this part of the park. Now, normally, I'd need Nigel or Suzanne's help here, but I've read about these birds. As it turns out, Bathornis preferred living in Wetlands. Nigel asked us to prepare some new exhibits for wetland animals, so I might as well kill, or, rather, save, two birds with one stone: I make some knew exhibits and give these guys a swamp to live in.

Only time will tell whether or not Bob's plan works.

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Back in Miocene Florida, Nigel's team has found an interesting sight.

Before them is a tropical estuary. Amid the plains are some horses and other animals, while in the water, strange grey shapes are moving about.

For Nigel, it's an amazing sight.

"I don't believe it. Those grey things are manatees. I'd forgotten they'd reached North America by this time."

Now, though, comes the hard part: as the manatees can't move onto land, and the horses won't like to go into the water, he'll have to use the portal creatively to rescue both groups.

Fortunately, though, Nigel came prepared for this. After getting out his portal sticks, he hands Tristan a second set on a pair of buoys.

"I brought the marine portal in case more whales showed up, but it will work well enough here. Now, go and set this up in the lake, while I set this one up on the ground. Everyone else, help me build a funnel to get the animals herded toward the portal."

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While Nigel's team gets to work, however, something else is already starting to act.

Hidden away in the brush, a group of hunters is watching the group with curious eyes. NEver before have they seen the strange creatures that are now gathering sticks for some reason. Perhaps they are food, perhaps not. Either way, the long toothed predators are about to find out.

And they are not the only ones looking for a meal. In the water, several armored shapes have begun moving toward the manatees. These ancient predators care not for the humans, especially when a more substantial meal presents itself.

One thing's for sure, things are about to get problematic for the group.

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AN: I'M BACK!

Anyways, I finally got this part up. From here on out, expects the speed of posts to pick up. I WILL FINISH THIS CHAPTER BEFORE OCTOBER IS OVER, SO DO NOT THINK OTHERWISE.

Also, I'm now accepting animal partners for OCs, in the same vain as Nathanoraptor and Drew are for Prehistoric Earth. Same rules apply, but I am also accepting theme music for each character.

THIS INCLUDES ANIMAL PARTNERS!

So, read, review, send me OC and creature ideas, and vote on the poll. This is Flameal15k, signing off.