"Come on; he's catching up! We have to run faster and find cover!" I shout to the three other dinosaurs that are in front of me, shielding them from the potential onslaught of tranq darts.
"We're going as fast as we can, Martin. But It's hard to run with these legs!" Pants the orange/brown triceratops, Koki.
"Yeah! Not all of us have long legs that are built to run!" shouts the violet Micro-raptor, Aviva.
"I'm not having any problems, but-"
"NOT NOW, JIMMY!" I and the others shout at the reddish-orange and gray Ornithomimus running a little ahead of us.
I sigh, "Ok then, Aviva, hop on my back with Chris! Koki... I'm sorry!" I say, slowing down just enough to carefully pick up Koki in my jaws, while also letting Aviva climb on my back with my unconscious brother.
"THIS IS YOUR PLAN?!" Koki shouted at me, not struggling thankfully.
"You got a better idea?!" I mutter out best I can, She doesn't respond.
I focus back on what's ahead of me, needing to be more careful now that I have the extra passengers.' how did we get into this mess anyhow?'
A Few Hours Earlier
"That was awesome!" Martin said as he and Chris get off the time trampoline, having just returned from our adventure.
"I know, right?! I didn't think we'd ever get the chance to do that, but now that Aviva fixed and improved the time trampoline, we were finally able to have a creature adventure with dinosaurs!" Chris said excitedly.
"That was a great first test with the updates, it held up even better than before, and there were no malfunctions or glitches! With a few more tweaks, though, it will perform even better! I better get on that right away, well, after I run a quick diagnostic. It may not have blown up like last time, but there may be a problem that we can't see. Hey Koki, do you think you could help me with that?" Aviva said as she followed them down to the main room.
"Sure, Aviva! I'll go grab the equipment," Koki responds.
"... , so what species of dinosaurs did you collect DNA samples from for your collection, Chris?" The brother in blue asked as they walk in behind Aviva.
"I got a few different ones. I got some feathers from a few different feathered dinosaurs, like Micro-raptors, as well as the head feather of a velociraptor. I found a claw from an Ornithomimus, I found the end of a horn from a triceratops, and I even managed to find the tooth from a Tarbosaurus (The Asian cousin of the T-Rex, slightly smaller) !"Listed off excitedly, "I would have grabbed more, but I only had a few zip-bags to keep them in. We need to go back there again!"
Chris pulls out his collection from a drawer on the main conceal, and enlarged(?) it. He pulled out each of the samples from his backpack and laid them out neatly on the table.
"Hey Chris, keep the Tarbosaur tooth, the velociraptor feather, the Triceratops horn, Micro-raptor feather and the Ornithomimus claw out!" Aviva requests from the other side of the room, "After we finish this diagnostic, I'll see if I can make creature powers for them. Also, make a list of some wow facts for them, so I have some powers to work with!"
"Sure, I'll leave them on your invention station!" Chris replied, walking over to her station and leaving the samples on the desktop.
"Those are going to be the best power-suits EVER! I mean, it's not every day we get to activate the creature powers of DINOSAURS!" Martin was super excited about the possibility of being in a dinosaur creature power suit!
The others laugh at his obvious excitement.
"Come on, bro, let's go review some of the video footage we got and try to figure out some wow facts!" Chris says, walking up to the sunroof (roof patio thing?).
Once upon the roof, Chris pulls out his creature pod, pull up the video feeds and sets it up on a tripod. While Chris had done that, Martin set up a large whiteboard divided into four columns with the name of each dinosaur at the top.
"Ok, so which Dino do we want to start with, Triceratops, Micro-raptor, Velociraptor, Tarbosaurus or Ornithomimus? Gee, that's hard to say. Or-nith-o-mime-us," Martin says with a chuckle. "Fun fact, their name means 'Bird Mimic'!"
"I guess we'll start with ornithomimus then," Chris concluded and started the video feed for ornithomimus.
"Ok, so they were omnivores from the late Cretaceous period, between 125 - 66 million years ago. They were roughly 11.5 feet(3.5 m for metric users) long, which short compared to others in the ornithomimids family, 6 feet(4.5 m) tall and 374.8 Ibs (170 Kg).
They walked on two long legs, had hollow bones for light-weight when running. They had toothless, beak-like jaws, a small thin-boned skull with a large brain cavity, possibly from intelligence, but likely to have better control over their movements. Their orbital fenestra(hole in the skull in front of the eye socket) were proportionately larger as well, suggesting keen eyesight, possibly even night vision.
They had very long necks, able to see prey or predators from far away, in a way, they look like an ostrich. Some paleontologists believing they had feathers in a similar pattern to an ostrich, these feathers also helped them regulate their body heat. They had tendons in their tails to support them, and they had long arms and fingers to help them reach.
So with all these features, they were very fast dinosaurs that had fantastic agility and were perfectly adapted to running with excellent coordination!" Chris concluded, looking at his brother, who was writing on the board.
Martin looked to Chris and stepped away from the board. There were several points and a very detailed picture of an ornithomimus and a close up on its skull and legs.
"Wow, bro... nice diagram!"(shouldn't be a surprise, it's Martin :) )
"Thanks, now then. What Dino do we do next?"
"how about the velociraptor? There are a few important misconceptions!"
"Sounds good to me, bro! So, where do we start?"
"well to start, The name velociraptor means 'Swift thief,' referring to their ability to grab prey quickly. They were one of the most bird-like dinosaurs ever discovered, living between 99 - 66 million years ago, during the end of the cretaceous period. They were roughly 2 ft (0.3 m) tall, 6.8 ft (2.07 m) long, and around 33 Ibs (15 kg) carnivores with long, narrow snouts with 13-15 sharp, serrated teeth in the upper jaw and 14-15 in the lower." They had excellent Binocular vision and had among the best eye-sight of all dinosaurs, even having night vision. Their sense of smell was also believed to rival that of a bloodhound and even a T-Rex!"
"They had two large hand-shaped appendages with three curved claws which were similar to wing bones of modern birds. They had long, inflexible tails that provided the raptors with balance, much like most theropods. Their hind legs had sharp claws, the second claw being a 3" long, sickle-shaped claw used for preventing escape and killing prey. They also were covered in feathers, though they couldn't fly since their arms were too short. Their feathers were believed to attract potential mates, provide heat and generate heat for the incubation of eggs. They were also supposed to have high, warm-blooded metabolism." Martin concludes.
he steps away from the board
"Ok, some good facts about raptors here, and another amazing diagram bro, seriously, you need to show me how to do that!"
"Maybe one day, bro, but right now, we have wow facts to collect!"
"fair enough. Ok, I thought we could do Tarbosaur next," Chris suggests.
"Sounds good to me, bro. So, where do we start?"
"Well, Tarbosaurus was a late cretaceous (70-65 million years ago) apex predators that are believed to be the predecessors to the T-Rex due to their biological similarities and that they were found further back then T-Rex. They grew from 32.8 ft - 39.4 ft (10-12m) long, around 9.8 ft - 11.5 ft (3-3.5m) tall and between 8,818.5 Ibs - 11,023.1 Ibs (4,000 - 5,000 Kg)." Chris began
"Due to special adaptations in the skull (way too many scientific terms that even I don't understand. ^_^), the tarbosaurus had a very rigid lower jaw which allowed for them to hold onto more powerful struggling prey.
Their brains, like others in the tyrannosaurid family, closer to that of crocodiles than that of a bird. The most developed parts were associated with their sense of smell and hearing. They had a vomeronasal organ (Don't ask me XD ), which helped them to detect pheromones, and their hearing was well developed, suggesting they called to one another. They had a long, heavy tail to counterbalance their large upper body and head, so their centre of balance was likely above their hips." Martin concluded, stepping away from the board so Chris could see.
"Hmm, not quite as many details, but still some wow facts that Aviva can work with. These would be super important creature powers when out in the wild." Chris comments.
(if you want, I'll comment the links to this information, and you can figure that out).
"We should move onto the next dino. Which one should we do?" Martin asks.
And so it continued (If you guys want me to do this for the other Dinos, just leave a comment, and I'll update)
A while later...
"We're finally done!"
To Be Continued...