The six teens watched on as the large predatory reptile ambled away, while under continuous harassment from the dinosaurs.

"So, we found the female Postosuchus," noted Vera. "How do we rescue her? With bait? I mean, she's probably hungry."

"Yeah, but we also have to get rid of the dinosaurs so that they won't try to eat her," reminded Marcus

"Well, there's six of us, and we're a lot bigger than they are, so we shouldn't have much trouble scaring them off. Also, what are those small yellow dinosaurs?"

"Guys," began Tristan.

"What are the little yellow dinosaurs?" Asked Alice. "I'm rather curious."

"Daemonosaurs," answered Lucas.

"Um, guys-"

"Ooh, scary name. Doesn't mean we can't catch them," responded Michelle.

"HEY!"

Instantly, the teens quieted, and turned to their appointed leader, who pointed in front of them, an annoyed and worried look on his face.

There, about a hundred meters away, the female Postosuchus had collapsed. Immediately, the small dinosaurs began to advance on her, until she howled again, forcing them to retreat. A moment later, the rauisuchian stood back up and continued to march away, though she was clearly moving more slowly than she had before. Fear swiftly fading, the dinosaurs continued to pursue her, waiting for their chance to come.

"I don't know about the rest of the animals, but that female needs some medical attention soon, or she won't make it back to the park," said the eldest Saurus sibling.

"No arguement there," noted Vera. "Quick, after her!"

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Back at the park, Ted is having an interesting issue with the sea scorpions.

At one of the park's salt water pools, Ted was hastily moving several species of eurypterids from their main exhibit into the pool. In a nearby one, several trilobites were also being loaded away.

Suddenly, one of the trilobites began to convulse violently. A moment later, it's armored skin shattered, and the now soft skinned creature hastily took shelter in the sand of its exhibit. A moment later, one of the sea scorpions did the same thing, though his creature instead took shelter by crawling under a large rock. Soon, many of the hard shelled creatures were starting to convulse. Those that weren't scattered as divers entered the pens and began removing the shattered shells.

"Now, since trilobites and eurypterids are arthropods," began Ted, "they need to shed their skin in order to grow bigger. The problem is, they're vulnerable when they do that, and I'm pretty sure some species are cannibalistic, so we've had to move them to these smaller exhibits to molt, otherwise we might find ourselves short a few arthropods.

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Back in Prehistoric Arizona, Nigel's team has finally reached the source of the sounds they heard earlier.

Cresting over a hill at the edge of the forest, the team finds a wonderful sight. A small stream flowed through the parched earth, and at its banks were a herd of tusled creatures, which, much to their surprise, were covered in noticeable furry coats.

"...Those are Placerias, right?"

"Yes, Elise, they are."

"Shouldn't they be scaly?"

"Actually, there's a lot of evidence that they had fur, even if we don't have skin impressions that confirm it. Also, didn't the dicynodonts we rescued with the Arizonasaurus also have fur?"

"They did. Sorry about that, Sean. It's just that-"

"Seeing something on tv as a kid and seeing the real thing can be really surprising, I know. Now let's just focus on rescuing them."

"YES SIR!" shout-whispered (?) the group...well, except for Nigel, who simply smiled in amusement.

Cautiously, the group began advancing toward the drinking herbivores, always watching for predators.

Unfortunately, they failed to notice a large, green colored carnivore watching them from behind a fallen log.

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While Nigel's team tries to rescue the Placerias, Tristan's team has been following the female Postosuchus, hoping that she will decide to rest soon. All the while, the group of hungry carnivores following her has only increased.

The scavengers' numbers had only grown. Where one their had only been a pack of Daemonosaurus and the Coelophysis, now there were several more Coelophysis, several blue colored reptiles, and a pack of yellows-orange and brown theropods, all patiently waiting for the giant carnivore to keel over. To say that things were starting to look a tad bleak was an understatement.

"Still think we can scare them all off?" Questioned Alice. Tristan could only roll his eyes at this. "We have air horns, tranquilizers, flares, and cattle-prods. Numbers is not going to stop us from saving this reptile." Alice quieted after that, but Tristan had the feeling she wasn't completely willing to let this go so easily. Part of him also agreed with her - they needed to get rid of the scavengers before said scavengers got tired of waiting for the wounded carnivore to die. Considering how sickly she looked, that would probably happen soon.

Fortunately, though, the female finally came to a stop. Taking a moment to catch her breath, the female took shelter inside a hollow log, in the process shielding herself from all attacks except from the front. Annoyed at being denied an easy kill, the various carnivores began to disperse, though none strayed from the female's location - they would not give up on such a large meal so easily. While most of the predators focused on the large carnivore, the orange ones, after a moment of sniffing the air, turned their attention toward the teens. Joining them were a group of yellow and grey creatures, similar in appearance to the Coelophysis.

"Before you guys ask," remarked Tristan, "the orange ones look like Chindesaurus, while the yellow-grey ones are probably Camposaurus."

Finishing his statement, the team's leader got to work setting up the portal, then took out a piece of meat and, much to the groups surprise, a mist sprayer not unlike the ones a person could by at an amusement park. While the rest of the team examined their packs to see if they also had misters, Tristan turned his on and began blowing the scent of the meat toward the predators. Soon, hunger took hold, and they charged, just as Tristan activated the portal, sending them tumbling into the present. As soon as the last creature was through, he deactivated the portal and pulled up his sticks.

"Are our odds still looking bleak right now, Alice?"

The girl in question merely snorted in response.

"Okay, the odds are once again in our favor, but don't get cocky. Also, we should probably get closer to the rest of the predators now - not sure if they will come running to us if we are this far away."

"No argument there," remarked Lucas, and the group began to advance on the predators...who were now only about fifty yards away from them, and that distance was rapidly shrinking.

Alice's eyes widened as she saw the approaching horde of hunters. "Scheiße!" she shouted, before quickly turning left and beating a retreat, the rest of the team right behind her. Just as the dinosaurs were about to catch up to them, they made a hard right, causing several of the predators to trip and tumble into the sand while the rest hastily turned and continued to pursue them.

This continued for some time, with the Postosuchus and Coelophysis (which, unknown to the humans, was also female) watching on as a scene not out of place in a Looney Tunes cartoon was played out on the parched landscape. Eventually, though, all goods things must come to an end, and Tristan and Michelle lost their footing and fell onto the dirt. Surprisingly, however, the pursuing carnivores ignored them, except for one Daemonosaurus that was unceremoniously punched in the face, at which point it joined its kin in pursuing the rest of the teens.

Sighing, Michelle righted herself, while Tristan attempted to gain some measure of his surroundings. It appeared that the group had fallen into a dried up gulley, one end of which had a burrow at its end...

And from that burrow, a somewhat doglike face stared at him

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