There is something missing from our world. The amazing creatures that time has left behind. But what if we could bring them back?

What if extinction didn't have to be forever?

We're going back in time on a safari with a difference as wildlife adventurer Nigel Marvin plunges into prehistory to rescue creatures on the brink of extinction. His plan is to bring them back to the safety of the present and give them a second chance.

This time, the team goes back four hundred million years to rescue one of the most nightmarish predators to ever live!

Welcome to the ultimate wildlife sanctuary.

Welcome to Prehistoric Park!

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Prehistoric Park is now filled with extinct species. From dinosaurs to mammoths and sea scorpions, it had many inhabitants, quite a few of them titanic. Now, though, Nigel want's to look into rescuing a smaller animal.

Nigel is once again near the docks, but this time, he's look at a tide pool tank. For a moment, all was calm, before food for the resident was dumped in. Rather peculiarly, said meal was not a normal bait fish, but instead a small lionfish. The recently deceased fish drifted through the water, undisturbed by any of the arthropods or scavenger fish in the tank.

Then it floated over a hole in the sand.

In a flash, a worm shot out of the ground and snatched the dead fish, before dragging it back into the water. The speed and ferocity of he assault practically tore the dead lionfish in two. Moments later, the brutalized remains of the fish were half buried in the sand, slowly sinking deeper as the strange predator pulled its meal down beneath the substrate.

Nigel stared on in awe, practically giddy with excitement.

"Most people never really think of worms as being more than a nuisance, but this creature is called the bobbit worm, and as you can see, it's a predator. They may be tiny, but they can take down fish many times their size, and as you just saw, they can attack with enough speed and ferocity to tear prey in half. These are some of the largest worms on Earth, as they can grow to over a meter in length, but once, they got even bigger. Four hundred million years ago, there was a bobbit worm called Websteroprion that grew to over two meters in length. It may not have been very large by our standards, but it was a giant during its time, and I would love to have a few of them in the park."

Having had his fill of worm related violence, Nigel turned to leave, only to find Elise, Sean, and one of the island's native looking at several of the recently caught lionfish. For a moment, they said nothing, before promptly snatching up three fishing (while wearing ridiculously thick gloves) and quickly running off. Nigel stared at them a while longer, before heading off toward the Mariner.

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Nigel's desire to rescue the worm will take him back to the Devonian Period, a time when fish were starting to become the rulers of the ocean. Hopefully, he hasn't bitten off more than he can chew!

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On the other side of the portal lay an open ocean, stretching off to infinity in the North. To the south lay a coastline and, further inland, forests. It would be some time before tetrapods appeared on land, and many millions of years before something large enough to knock down the trees would show up, so for the moment, the forests would dominate the Earth.

That wasn't to say the land was lifeless, though - arthropods had already started to dominate the land. With oxygen plentiful and no vertebrates to compete with them, the hard-shelled creatures had been able to dominate. Already, titanic millipedes crawled across the land, ancestors to Ben, who was enjoying his dominance of the Bug House back at the park. Chasing them were primitive centipede who, though smaller than their prey, were just as fast. Joining in on this spectacle were a group of eurypterids - Stylonurus, based on the body shape.

While the assembly of animals was certainly odd, the team wasn't going to say anything about it - all it meant to them were more easy rescues.

Carefully, the team set up the portal so that the runaway millipedes would charge right through it, followed by the eurypterids and centipedes. Those who tried to avoid it were literally dragged through by the team, despite their best efforts to resist. Once the last animals was in the present, the team gathered plant samples for Pamela, deactivated the portal and boarded the ship. Now, it was time to go fishing.

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Back in the present, Elise and Sean were digging into a delicious meal.

Who knew lionfish could taste so good.

Normally, the park staff wouldn't eat such fish, mainly because they were poisonous. Lionfish, however (or rather, the ones the duo were eating), were an invasive species in the Caribbean, and had already put many species under threat. The venomous creatures had few predators in the Caribbean Ecosystem, and most of the creatures that could eat them didn't even know the fish were edible. Further making this a problem was that many people often threw pet lionfish into the ocean when they grew too large for their aquariums. To say this was a problem was an understatement. In an effort to curb the numbers of the beautiful yet dangerous fish, attempts had been made to convince people to begin commercially harvesting the fish for food.

Both the Saurus Patriarch and the natives of the island had taken up the challenge, in part because the fish just looked so appetizing. These sentiments were also shared by Elise and Sean, who were trying to eat as many of the fish as possible. The two made an exception, however, and threw two fish into a nearby tank, where they were unceremoniously devoured by a grouper and a moray eel. Such predators were fully capble of cooperation and, in this instance perfectly willing to share.

Friends always made good meals better!

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AN: People really are trying to get lionfish fished for commercially in the Caribbean Sea. The invasive ones are just that much of a problem.

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