The team could only watch on as the shark charged toward the female Dolichorynchops, unsure what to do. Before the killing blow could arrive, though, the huge form of a Deinosuchus slammed into the Cretoxyrhina, batting the shark aside, and sparing the polycotylid from death. Given that the alligator just barely missed snapping its jaws around the plesiosaur's flippers, though, it was clear that crocodilian had not done this out of altruism - it just wanted the sea reptile for itself. Of course, by slamming into the shark, it had alerted its prey to its presence, and now the sea reptile was trying to escape with obvious haste.

What had followed could only be described as pandemonium - the various small sea reptiles, be they plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, or aquatic birds (as birds, being dinosaurs, were a type of reptile) began to scatter, whilst diving pterosaurs tried to force their way out of the water, albeit unsuccessfully in most cases - taking off from water was not their forte. The explosion of movement had, in turn, caused several advancing sharks to go into a frenzy, and begin chasing after anything they could catch. So far, they had yet to score a kill, but how long this would last was not something the group wanted to find out. The mosasaurs, meanwhile, had ironically come to a halt, unsure what to target, whilst the pair with young had hastily moved to guard their offspring.

Panic had erupted above and below the waves, as while the myriad sea creatures wanted to avoid getting eaten in the frenzy, the humans were unsure how to rescue them all, much to their obvious discomfort.

"What do we do, what do we do, what do we do?!" crowed Alice.

"Try to open more of the time portals and herd the creatures in group by group?" offered Sean.

"Too long, and we need to carry some of the portals into the water by hand. And I am not letting you guys become shark sushi. I say we bait the predators in with chum and hten open a portal."

"And risk having them tear each other apart? I don't think so!" retorted Elise.

"...Can we just open one giant portal around us and take everything into the present in one go?" offered Tai.

"How will that help us stop this frenzy?!" shouted Tristan, whilst Sean, Elise, and Alice glared at the youngest Saurus brother.

"...We make the exit into the present open fifteen feet above sea level?"

Tristan opened his mouth to offer a biting reply, only for the words to die in his mouth. "...That actually might work. But what about the pterosaurs?"

"They're already accounted for," replied Nigel, who was busy feeding Pterry….who had been joined by literally every other pterosaur in the immediate area, plus several Ichthyornis. In fact, Pterry was already trying to display to a female, uncaring of the carnage going on around them.

The team gave the Pteranodon a particularly pointed look (whose meaning was utterly lost upon the pterosaur), then activated the portal. A moment later, and they, and every living creature in their immediate vicinity, was in the safety of the present.

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The fifteen foot drop disoriented most of the sea creatures, and in some cases stunned them outright. Many sharks were stunned by the fall, forcing the team to help them recover. The mosasaurs, meanwhile, were more easily herded away - they and the crocodilians were distracted via using a massive supply of chum, as were a few of the still conscious sharks.

One predator, however, refused to give up the hunt - a smaller shark, most likely a Squalicorax, had made a charge at one of the Dolichorhynchops, and had managed to graze one of her flippers, though luckily, she had managed to shake it off. As she now had one fin covered in cut's from the shark's but, though, she would be unlikely to pull this off a second time.

Fortunately, she didn't have to.

Before the shark to prepare itself for another attack, Elise rammed into its dorsal fin and tugged. Caught off guard, the shark was flipped upside down before it could react, causing it to freeze up. In front of it, a piece of chum fell into the water, soon descending well below the fish. Elise waited until the plesiosaur had gotten to the safety of a holding pen before righting the shark, which instantly sprung to life and began chasing the chum.

As the shark snatched up the meat, Elise wasted no time in climbing back into the Mariner.

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An hour later, the new arrivals had been moved into their new homes - the mosasaurs had, for the most part, been moved to open ocean pens, as had the elasmosaurs, while the short necked plesiosaurs, turtles, and smaller mosasaurs had been moved to reef pens. The prehistoric birds had been moved to their own exhibits, as had the coastal dinosaurs. Lastly, the pterosaurs had been herded up with Pterry, and were enjoying their new roost, while the Deinosuchus had joined the resident pair in their own pond.

While the rest of the team had gotten to work settling in some of the bottom dwellers, Elise had instead decided to help Suzanne care for the injured female Dolichorhynchops. Right now, she was removing a shark tooth that had been embedded in the plesiosaur's flipper...

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Next time, the team goes back to rescue a variety of prehistoric pinnipeds...

(Shot of the team examining a giant, four tusked walrus)

Including some recently extinct varieties...

(Shot of Tristan and Elise trying to coax a particularly confused group of seals into the portal)

While back at the park, breeding season for herbiovres arrives)

(Shot of two stegosaurus calling out to each other and displaying their horn covered plates)

With all that entails...

(Shot of Theo charging at another male, only for both to be slammed to the side by an Edmontosaurus)

All next time on Prehistoric Park: Sea Lions, Seals, and Walruses, Oh My!

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For those wondering, the female Doly is THAT Doly, just like the Allosaurus was Big Al.

As for how the shark suddenly froze up: sharks will actually completely freeze up if they are flipped upside down, and can actually die if they are stuck that way for too long. Orcas hunt great white sharks in this manner - flipping them upside down and waiting for them to suffocate.

As for the rescued list:

Hesperornis: 40 males, 50 females (it was a large colony)

Dolichorhynchops: 13 males, 14 females

Clidastes: 3 males, 3 females

Tylosaurus: 21 males, 23 females, 7 juveniles of indeterminate gender

Elasmosaurus: 7 males, 10 females

Niobrarasuaurs: 3 males, 4 females

Claosaurus: 14 males, 14 females, 5 juveniles

Hierrosaurus: 2 males, 2 females

Niobraratyrannus (hypothetical species, these are the dryptosaurs mentioned in parts 3 and 4): 4 males, 4 females

Pteranodon: 27 males, 28 females

Dawndraco: 15 males, 15 females

Geosternbergia: 11 males, 11 females

Nyctosaurus: 4 males, 4 females

Xiphactinus: 18 males, 19 females

Squalicorax: 23 males, 27 females

Cretoxyrhina: 8 males, 8 females

Archelon: 3 males, 3 females

Protostega: 5 males, 5 females

Ctenochelys: 7 males, 7 females

Styosaurus: 5 males, 5 females

Deinosuchus: 4 males, 4 females

Ichthyornis: 100+ individuals, all in breeding pairs (total is about 130)

Assorted small fish: 100,000 + (includes Gillicus, Enchodus, Caproberyx, Bananogmius, and others) (keep in mind several were caught using a fishing trawler, which would imply entire shoals were caught)

Platecarpus: 6 males, 6 females

Plesioplatecarpus: 2 males, 2 females

Baptornis: 4 males, 4 females

Apatornis: 9 males, 9 females

Halisaurus: 10 males, 10 females

Please tell me if I forgot any species on this list

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