Still desperate to escape the eurypterid, the team darted toward the strange underwater mushrooms, unaware of the many disturbances in the sand converging on them. The fact that the arthropod was gaining on them contributed to their ignorance.

Eventually, though, their stamina finally caved in, and Aiden started to lag behind. In moment the sea scorpion was upon him, grabbing the boy with its claws.

Before it could truly begin its attack, though, something darted out of the sand and began grappling with the sea scorpion's left hind leg. Another of the grapplers grabbed onto the eurypterid's tail, then a third onto its telson. Soon, six of the creatures were assault the eurypterid.

The little fish did not take the opportunity to swim away, much to the surprise of the group, and instead tried to assault one of the creatures, who in turn attempted to eat the fish. Before the bite could connect, though, the eurypterid released Aiden from its grip and grabbed the thin beast, trying to tear it away from the acanthodian.

Soon, a pattern began to form - the fish would nip at one of the grapplers, the grappler would try to eat the fish, and the eurypterid would catch the creature in its claws. This repeated for some time, until finally the team got bored of watching and just decided to open the portal in front of the eurypterid, which tore itself free from its assailants and vanished into the present, with two of the creatures still attached to it.

As the remaining creatures attempted to burrow again, the team realized these were the same worms they had just rescued, but far larger. In fact, these looked to be about the same length as an average anaconda, far larger than a normal member of their kind. Additionally, despite the group's attempts to bait them out, the worms refused to abandon the area around the underwater mushrooms. It got to the point that the literally had to grab and pull the worms out of the ground, and some of the mushrooms too, because of the worms didn't want to leave the area around them, there was probably a good reason they for that.

After that, the team retreated into the present, unwilling to stay in the past any longer after seeing the giant worms. Enough was enough.

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A few hours later, and all of the new residents had settled in. The eurypterids has been returned to his exhibit, though now with a companion - after seeing how the fish had lead the sea scorpion to a carcass, and the rescue team's observations in the past, the female Acanthodian had been moved into the arthropod's exhibit.

As for Alice and Lucas...

"Can you still feel your arm?"

Lucas just laughed dryly at Alice's question. "I'm fine." Then he used some meat to bait the female Carnufex into letting go of his arm.

"So, apparently Nigel brought back giant worms. Should we call Burt Gummer?"

"These are still a little small for him."

"True enough."

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Next time, the team goes back to the Jurassic, to rescue both dinosaur celebrities...

(Shot of Tristan caught between a red crested theropod, a plate backed herbivore, a whip-tailed sauropod, and a three horned carnivore)

...while also encountering some hidden Jurassic Jewels.

(Shot of Nigel running side by side with a troodontid on a salt plain as giant sauropods stampede around him)

Back at the park, Ted deals with the worms.

(Shot of a Worm lunging out of a mushroom at Ted)

All next time on Prehistoric Park: Returned From Extinction - The Time of the Titans!

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AN: Welp, back to Walking With Dinosaurs again!

* Anacondas are around 20 feet long.

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