AN: Here we go again!

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With a lack of luck inland, the team has decided to go out into the open ocean to search for more sharks.

Of course, that runs the risk of putting the group in the path of bigger predators.

The team scans the water for a moment, looking around in search of any sharks that might be swimming on the surface. However, it soon becomes apparent that their quarry is not swimming near the surface. Wit the lack of targets apparent, the team quickly decides to dive.

Once in the water, they begin to pair off: Elise goes with Sean, Aileen Tai, Aiden with Violet, and Nigel with Tristan. The team quickly takes the plunge and disperses into the depths, trying to find the sharks they are searching for.

As the disperse, though, they don't bother to look up, failing to notice the giant shapes swimming above them...

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Back at the park, things are about to get interesting.

At Hill, Terence is once again on the prowl. With the storm having abided, Terence is one again patrolling his territory. However, that isn't going to last long.

His travels soon take him back to the fence he escaped out of a few days ago. The staff have yet to repair it, and the severity of the storm has knocked out the cameras by that part of the fence, leaving him free to exit.

At first, though, the tyrannosaur is rather ignorant of this: he has no real reason to leave, besides sating his curiosity. However, a change in the wind turns his attention back toward the break in the fence: the wind brings many scents, but by far the most noticeable is the briny scent of the sea. It is a smell that is very familiar to the tyrannosaur, and one that he associates with very fond memories.

Tyrannosaurs were some of the most efficient and powerful of all predators to ever live, but they didn't get to be those just through brute force. Tyrannosaurs did so well because they could exploit quite a few food sources: hadrosaurs, ankylosaurs, ceratopsids, and sauropods were the obvious examples, but there were others. Many would be surprised to realize that fish were among their options, but in the case of Tyrannosaurus itself, fish were an easily available meal: sharks, sturgeons, even the occasional eel were all on the menu for this giant.

Yet fondest of all these meals were turtles. Terence could remember when his parents had brought him the flesh of ancient sea turtles, which had been some of the tastiest meat that he had ever tasted. Turtles were the one kind of aquatic prey tyrannosaurs excelled in dispatching. Even spinosaurs could not beat them in this field, for they lacked the bite force needed to shatter the tough shells many turtles had.

Terence's mouth watered at the thought of snatching an appetizing meal from a beach shore, and it did not take him long to bolt through the fence in search of easy pickings.

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The new scent soon flooded Finn's nostrils, bring the carnosaur back to full awareness. Soon, he was upright, scanning the horizon.

Finn was still confused as to why Vera was examining his dung with such great interest. True, it was a way to determine more about the creature that had excreted said waste, but her scrutiny of his waste beggared belief. Even another acro would not go as far as she had to when examine the waste of a rival.

Now, though, the carnosaur's attention was preoccupied with something else: the scent of giant predators. Finn had caught a whiff of a new predator during the storm, but he hadn't been able to determine what it belonged to: it didn't smell like raptor or acro, making it an anomaly to him. And, in nature, anomalies were not good things: they usually signified a new type of prey or predator, something that was always a danger to a well developed ecosystem. Such environments had achieved a biological equilibrium, containing a number of animals whose populations were relatively stable, allowing them to propagate without fear of ecological imbalance, not that they understood the term.

Invading species didn't help that equilibrium. Whenever they appeared, they caused problems for an entire ecosystem. Predators were some of the most obvious, but strange herbivores could be far worse, not that Finn knew this. Invasive herbivores might eat plants faster than they can regrow, slowly wiping out native species. Prey that depended on those plants would also die away, eventually starving out the native predators. Such a ripple effect was not always readily apparent, but it was always detrimental to the native organisms.

But none of that mattered to Finn. All that mattered was finding the source of the new scent.

And soon enough, he found it.

Before him was a strange carnivore: it had a large, deep skull and long legs, which contrasted greatly with its puny arms. Even stranger though, was the fact that it was covered in feathers, even though the carnivore was just as large as Finn was. Clearly, this theropod was unlike anything Finn had ever seen. This, to Finn's annoyance, left him unsure on how to act: His instincts told him to fight, but his deeper thoughts told him to wait and see how the new predator reacted.

Ultimately, the rational thoughts won out and Finn simply stared at the new predator, waiting to see how this new competitor hunted. Unfortunately for Finn, the new carnivore simply stared at him for a moment before moving on, disappearing into a set of trees in the distance. Finn stared at the trees for a few more minutes, before finally lying down to rest once more.

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Back in Carboniferous Arizona, the team is still on the prowl.

The search has led the team into a large cluster of ancient clams, which have begun to build a reef of sorts. The sight is beautiful, but it will only be a memory for the team: this clams will die out in the Cretaceous, robbing the world forever of the beauty of reef-building clams.

At least, until now.

Carefully, the team repeats their strategy from before: they look for rocks weekly attached to the ocean floor, which the pry free before sending them into the present. It doesn't take them long to get a small reef home.

Just as they are moving one last peace, though, Sean notices something dart behind another set of clams. It looks vaguely like a shark.

Unfortunately, those particular clams are well embedded into the sea floor, leaving the team with little room to rescue the shark.

It looks like the team has found another shark. Now they need to catch it.

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