The next day, the park wakes up to the pitter patter of tiny three toed feet.

At the Ornithomimosaur exhibit, something wonderful has happened:

The females eggs have hatched.

Nigel and Susan are the first to greet the new arrivals. The tiny dinosaurs are covered in brown, downy feathers, and lack the wings of their parents. It doesn't stop them from being adorable, though.

"This is amazing. Our first baby dinosaurs. They look so much like their mum and dad." Remarks Nigel.

"They do," says Suzanne," and they can already walk too. Though, since ostriches can walk from birth, I don't suppose it's too surprising."

"I think they look more like ducks, though."

"True."

Eventually, Nigel and Suzanne are forced to leave by the over protective mother.

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Unfortunately, while the eggs at the nest have hatched, the ones in the incubator haven't. Bob is stumped, but he won't abandon them yet.

"I haven't got them to hatch yet, but I can't give up. Every single egg we have is precious."

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Meanwhile, Nigel is trying to figure out a mystery. Saber tooth cats were flourishing in South America 1 million years ago, but 900,000 years later, they were dying out. Nigel thinks he might know why.

"In Africa, cheetahs are the fastest predator around; they're the only ones that can catch Thompson's gazelles. The problem is, they're so specialized toward speed that, if another predator shows up, they can't fight over the kill. I think that the opposite specialization killed the saber tooth: they were so specialized for killing big animals that they couldn't survive when the megafauna died out at the end of the last ice age. I think they died out for the same reason terror birds did: new predators took their place when the climate changed and killed off their food supply."

Now, Nigel plans to go back 10,000 years to rescue the last of the saber tooths. Traveling with him is Saba Douglas-Hamilton, an expert on big cats. Together, they hope to bring back those magnificent predators.

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In Prehistoric South America, things have changed quite a bit since the last time Nigel was here. There are no Toxodon or terror birds around. Trees have started to replace the grasslands, but it is still a long time from the days of the Amazon.

Nigel and Saba decide that the best way to search for the cats is to split up. Saba travels on the plains while Nigel examines some nearby hills.

Soon, Nigel spots something. He charges through the grass and pulls out... A giant armadillo?

"This here is, obviously, an armadillo. These guys are still pretty common today, but they used to have giant relatives that resembled ankylosaurs. (Catches another one) Now, these aren't my target, but I would love to have some giant armadillos at Prehistoric Park."

Nigel opens up the time portal and sends the beats to the present. Hopefully, Bob can deal with them easily.

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AN: I am pretty sure terror birds were not wiped out by saber tooths, seeing as Titanis survived for 3 million years in North America with the cats and wolves and, furthermore, DIDN'T EVEN HUNT THE SAME CREATURES THEY DID! (Terror birds would've hunted fast moving animals, such as horses, so it's more likely they wee outcompeted by the American Cheetah. Additionally, the evidence we have indicates that, in a fight between saber tooth and terror bird, the bird would probably win).

Additonally, the armadillo is Propraopus, which is NOT a glyptodont. Its from a separate lineage from glyptodonts and armadillos that appeared in the Eocene, but went extinct during the Pleistocene. I'm glad I found out it existed via Fossilworks.

Read and review. Aslo, in addition to episode ideas, I will take advice for OC's and fan art, so send them as you wish. This is Flameal15k, signing off.