I cast Revive once more!

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Our search for the greatest River Monster to ever live has lead us to a prehistoric lake. Here, there could be an untold variety of freshwater monsters - only a fraction of all living things are recorded in the fossil record. Giant amphibians, predatory fish, even late surviving predatory eurypterids - all could dwell here. Hopefully, we'll be able to catch a few to return to the present.

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Driving their boat to the center of the lake, Nigel and Jeremy are soon back to fishing. In this environment, fish aren't the only large creatures they can catch, and within minutes, Nigel has a bite. His foe proves less challenging than expected, and Nigel is soon holding a small, snake-like creature in his arms.

"Look at this! This creature is Ophiderpeton, and it is another variety of snake-like amphibian from this era. It may be on the smaller side of what we can find here, but every animal we catch is worth saving."

Unbeknownst to Nigel and Jeremy, the large shape from before has descended into the depths of the lake, where others have joined it. Slowly, the shadows start circling around the duo's boat.

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Back at the park, some of the residents are exploring their new homes. This can lead to…interesting interactions.

The Desmatosuchus stared at the quill tail and the tree eater in confusion.

The Psittacosaurus stared back, equally confused.

The giraffe could not be bothered to care, and went about browsing as if nothing had happened.

In a land filled with creatures from across time and from all continents, encounters like this were not unexpected. That didn't mean they didn't happen, or that they weren't awkward.

The aetosaur herd had been rooting around for food in their exhibit until the constant digging had resulted in them tunneling under their fence line. Bob had been forced to relocate them here until he could revise their exhibit to be harder to escape (and perhaps bigger, so as to make escape unnecessary). As it so happened, Bob has relocated the herd closer to where the Psittacosaurus and several African mammals dwelled, resulting in this meeting.

Initially, there had been some alarm, but after a moment, it had passed, and the herbivores had returned to feeding.

The variation of herbivorous forms helped to ease potential conflict - the aetosaurus were rooters, and thus kept their snouts low when searching for forage. The tiny ceratopsians were more interested in seeds and fruits, and stuck primarily to bushes. The giraffe, somewhat obviously, only feasted upon the treetops. Finally, a mixed herd of hadrosaurs had wandered into the area, and they were content to graze on the grass.

All in all, it made for a peaceful area.

But there was one source of annoyance.

Hidden in the grass lay a feathered theropod - an Ornitholestes. A young female, she had her mind focused on some appetizing targets - a flock of ducks that were searching the shoreline of a lake for food. Despite its name, Ornitholestes rarely feasted upon birds in their native time, and for a absurdly simple reason: in the Jurassic, birds were rare in the Americas. The majority of the times she feasted upon flying fare, it was either insect or pterosaur. Now, though, birds were in great abundance, making bagging one an easier prospect. Still, she had to be cautious - with a lack of ducklings in this group, she would have to ambush an adult and hope it could not fly away before her claws grasped it.

Cautiously, she inched forward. Any misstep, and she would miss her chance.

Fortunately, the grazing hadrosaurs were doing her a favor - their colossal forms stomping around the grass served to muffle her footsteps, allowing her to get within striking distance of the waterfowl.

Then one of the ducks noticed her.

The female charged.

The duck took off, letting out a warning quack.

The duck was soon beyond her reach.

But it had not been her target.

That had been a plump male, and it had not reacted in time to escape.

Swiftly pinning the bird in her arms, the Ornitholestes snapped her target's neck with a single bite, ending its struggles in a moment. Yet she refused to start feeding then and there, instead running up to a fallen tree, breezing past the Desmatosuchus in the process. Only once she was atop the tree did she deign to eat - here, she was safe from competition and larger predators. And even that was up for debate - the large Dakotaraptors could easily scale trees, and even one would be too big for her to repel. She had to hope none were here and that she could finish her meal before any showed up.

The aetosaurs and their ceratopsian companions stared at the theropod for a moment, before returning to feeding, though the sentries still kept an eye upon her. Better safe than sorry.

Further away, atop a small hill, a created Dilophosaurus observed all of this unfold. Larger than the Ornitholestes, it could easily take one of the smaller herbivores for a meal, even the aetosaurs were within its target range. Yet for now, it was content to ignore them. Especially right now - it had parasites to deal with.

Introduction the present had introduced the animals that lived from the Paleozoic to the Early Cretaceous to knew environments, plants, and animals.

It had also introduced them to ticks.

The blood sucking arachnids were annoying, to say the least.

While the Dilophosaurus had been cleaned of ticks, where they had been was still itchy. And this, the mightiest predator of the early Jurassic had been reduced to stretching itself on the ground, trying to make the pain go away.

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Back in the past, Nigel and Jeremy are still fishing, having caught plenty of species, but not the one they are looking for.

One by one, Nigel and Jeremy throw out likes and real them in as the bites come, but only creatures smaller than their target are caught. They soon have enough small tanks filled that they are forced to send some of their catches back through the portal.

Suddenly, Jeremy gets a very strong bite. Surprised, he barely manages to set the hook, and soon finds himself in a battle with a truly monstrous fish. Soon, a dark shape appears in the water, its body slowly being tugged toward the boat.

It seems Nigel and Jeremy have found their target. But will they catch it or will it catch them!

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