An alarm sounded from my lab, something was moving that wasn't supposed to. As I walked in I immediately Looked for the foreign movement. The Extractor was working on another amber, the nest I built for the eggs was turning the five I had. Ah, one of the eggs was rocking back and forth.

As I moved to the nest, I got a better look at which egg was hatching. Lexy's egg had spiderweb cracks around the surface. What I found when the shell finally broke looked similar to a turtle, Softshell back and front, stubby tail and a beaked mouth. Though the big thing was its size, It was as big as an adult red ear snapping turtle.

"Oh, you're so cute!" I exclaimed as I gently picked it up. "Oh you have more in common with modern turtles and tortoise then I thought you would," I told the little thing as I looked for any indicators for sexing.

"Let's see here, 'U' shaped groove in the underside of the shell near the base of tail, Shell is softer than predicted. Possible age marker? Further observation required. Hmm, small ridges on the back of the skull give the head a triangular look." As I noted the various things about the newborn ankylosaurus, I came to a definite conclusion. "All indicators point to subject Ank001 to be female."

Anko made a small noise for food. Looking at me with almost adorable brown eyes, I smiled as she swung her tail back and forth in a wag. "Let's get you some food, yeah?"

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Henry was walking into the cafeteria for a well-deserved snack. He had been working with some of the thinkers in Tech City to catalog most of the animal DNA they had thanks to the Kenya project and he was nearly done.

It was fascinating how so many species had things in common yet were still so different. For example bats, humans, and dolphins all had the same bone structure but evolved into either wings, hands or flippers all by the same gene sequence being arranged into the various patterns.

Henry was starting to think that maybe he could make something completely new if he tried. With Taylor's machines, it should be possible.

As Henry was grabbing a tray for the cafeteria line, Taylor walked through the doors holding a turtle of all things like a child.

Taylor immediately went to the salad bar to the side of the large room, grabbed a small bowl of lettuce and sat down to feed the turtle.

Henry put the whole act out of mind as he got his own food plus some shrimp in case Taylor's new turtle was slightly more carnivorous then she thought. It'd be bad if a new subject died because of a misconception.

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I had just placed Anko on the table with the bowl of lettuce when Henry sat down opposite of me and the newborn. Henry took a minute to stare at Anko before looking at me and asking, "ankylosaurus?"

"Yes, Henry she is an ankylosaurus. Alexis named her Anko." Henry grunted at the information, he knew I had some more eggs going since the facilities completion a few weeks ago, the whole complex covered over three acres with fifteen-foot walls wrapped around it. My lab and office took maybe a sixth of it by themselves.

"That is so inventive." he deadpanned.

"I know right, much better than Princess Bowser," I said equally deadpan. Henry blushed in embarrassment. "That was one time!"

"It gave that developer ideas!" I said. I was never gonna let him live it down. "How was I supposed to know he works for Nintendo?" Henry asked.

I shrugged, "The name tag?" It had been very visible.

Henry cast his eyes around for a subject change when his eyes landed on Anko again. He asked, " Do you think she might like fish or shrimp?"

"You can try, she has enough physical similarities to modern turtles she'd probably even like pizza." I joked.

Henry placed the shrimp from his tray in front of Anko, the newborn sniffed the shellfish before licking the food. Anko gave a slight shake of her head before turning back to the lettuce.

"Well, that answers that," I said in between giggles.

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I was back in the lab drawing some blood for Anko's records when Lexy ran in with Jet in tow. She tackle-hugged me when she saw me, "Aunt Taylor! Is that Anko?" Lexy asked. "She's so pretty! Can I hold her?" The little girl begged.

"She isn't exactly a puppy, Lex. She just hatched an hour ago." I lightly admonished.

"Aw, but I want to hold her." Alexis pouted. "Yes but I want to see if her shell hardens, give it a few weeks okay?"

Lexy gave a disappointed "Okay".

Jet gave the newborn a sniff before barking at me. "No." hissing and chirping "No, Jet she isn't food. You don't get to eat her." Jet huffed as he turned to stare at Anko.

When Lexy figured out what Jet wanted, she looked at me and said: "come on Jet lets go play."

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As I was finishing the day's paperwork, the alarm in my lab went off again. Expecting some more eggs to be hatching I eagerly walked into the door for my lab to see Wu with Anko's blood vial.

"Henry, what are you doing?" Henry's eyes looked a little wide like he did expect to get caught with his hand in the cookie jar.

Henry took a moment to answer. "I was going to catalog her DNA for you."

"That's fine, let me know before you take something ok?"

"Of course, good night ma'am." As Henry walked out, I heard the eggs start cracking.