Chapter 1 - T. Rex Returns Part 3

A time card appears saying "The Next Day."

French Narrator: "The Next Day."

The same mixed species herds of herbivore dinosaurs were still at the riverbed by the campsite eating, resting, and drinking minding their own business like it was nothing until they sensed something was wrong.

French Narrator: "It seems the pack of T. Rexes turn up, Looking for trouble."

The same pack of Tyrannosaurus appeared over the rise, surveying the lakeside from their vantage point followed by a lone adult female. Their predatory advances had not gone unnoticed by the multi-species herd of plant eating dinosaurs gathered by the water.

French Narrator: "They're after their favorite foods, Edmontosaurus, Torosaurus, Thescelosaurus, Pachycephalosaurus, Ornithomimus, Alamosaurus, and their most favorite Triceratops."

Thomas: "Everyone wake up! We're about to witness a hunt!"

The once peaceful lakeside became a bedlam of bellowing, roaring confusion as the herbivores prepared to face their hereditary foes. As our heroes got changed and hurried to the scene.

Thomas: "What we're seeing is the second theory Triceratops used their horns for. Triceratops were long thought to have used their horns and frills in combat with predators such as Tyrannosaurus. There is evidence that Tyrannosaurus did have aggressive head-on encounters with Triceratops, based on partially healed tyrannosaur tooth marks on a Triceratops brow horn and squamosal; the bitten horn is also broken, with new bone growth after the break. Which animal was the aggressor is not known. Since the Triceratops wounds healed, it is most likely that the Triceratops survived the encounter. Paleontologist Peter Dodson estimates that in a battle against a bull Triceratops, the Triceratops had the upper hand and would successfully defend itself by inflicting fatal wounds to the Tyrannosaurus using its sharp horns. Tyrannosaurus is also known to have fed on Triceratops, as shown by a heavily tooth-scored Triceratops ilium and sacrum. A new fossil find nicknamed "The Dueling Dinosaurs," shows both Triceratops and a juvenile Tyrannosaurus who both died together possibly in combat."

Charlie: "It does make sense that Triceratops is often depicted in combat with the Tyrannosaurus. In 1942, Charles R. Knight painted a mural incorporating a confrontation between a Tyrannosaurus and a Triceratops in the Field Museum of Natural History for the National Geographic Society, establishing them as enemies in the popular imagination."

Thomas: "You're correct, The museum I visit in Los Angeles has a famous dinosaur display of these two dinosaurs in combat. Paleontologist Bob Bakker once said of the imagined rivalry between Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops, "No matchup between predator and prey has ever been more dramatic. It's somehow fitting that those two massive antagonists lived out their co-evolutionary belligerence through the last days of the last epoch of the Age of Dinosaurs."

Tucker: "This is quite fascinating and dangerous witnessing a T. Rex hunt. There have been fossils of T. Rex prey with bite marks from attacks like a bitten base tail from an Edmontosaurus, Studies on hadrosaur vertebrae from the Hell Creek Formation that were punctured by the teeth of what appears to be a late-stage juvenile Tyrannosaurus indicate that despite lacking the bone-crushing adaptations of the adults, young individuals were still capable of using the same bone-puncturing feeding technique as their adult counterparts. There were also bite marks around the frill of Triceratops attacking triceratops was dangerous since the Triceratops wounds healed, it is most likely that the Triceratops survived the encounter and managed to overcome the Tyrannosaurus. In a battle against a bull Triceratops, the Triceratops would likely defend itself by inflicting fatal wounds to the Tyrannosaurus using its sharp horns; it's also as strong as a rhino's horn. Studies of Sue found a broken and healed fibula and tail vertebrae, scarred facial bones and a tooth from another Tyrannosaurus embedded in a neck vertebra, providing evidence for aggressive behavior. Tyrannosaurus, and most other theropods, probably primarily processed carcasses with lateral shakes of the head, like crocodilians. The head was not as maneuverable as the skulls of allosauroids, due to flat joints of the neck vertebrae."

Lor: "I can't believe we're gonna see it in action!"

Tino: "I mean it is cool and dangerous at the same time!"

Thomas: "I think the plan is the juveniles will charge straight at the herd to an area with foliage cover where the adults are waiting in ambush."

Ed: "Here they come!"

Before long, the tyrannosaurs made their charge, advancing on their prey with open jaws!

Thomas: "Right in the midst of the herd there!"

All was complete and utter chaos as the panicked herbivores charged in all directions, some of them splashing along the shallows, with the giant theropods in their midst, peering over the stampeding pandemonium. Thescelosaurus, Pachycephalosaurus, and Ornithomimus ran away with their fast running two legs, The Edmontosaurus started running, switching from four legs to two legs. But the Torosaurus and Triceratops stood their ground as the adults formed two separate circles depending on their species with the young at the very center showing their frills and horns outside the circle.

Tino: "Look at the Triceratops and Torosaurus, They're forming a circle."

Tish: "They become an impenetrable barrier wall of horns and frills and protecting their babies at the very center!"

A T. Rex tried to take a bite out of an Edmontosaurus as it hissed the hadrosaur grumbled and whacked the T. Rex's head with its tail and shoved the theropod as it ran away. Another T. Rex went after some pachys, But was rammed from the side by a Pachycephalosaurus with its Domehead. As the Thescelosaurus and Ornithomimus ran and disappeared into the forest.

Luna: "This is crazy!"

Lisa: "A pack of stampeding T. Rex!"

Pops: "Very bad show!"

Thomas: "They're trying to scatter the herd to find the weakest members!"

Finn: "You think?!"

Thomas: "What did you expect?!"

French Narrator: "Many dinosaurs had defenses against T. Rex. Thescelosaurus, Ornithomimus, and Edmontosaurus use their speed to run while the hadrosaur would use its tail as a last resort. The Pachycephalosaurus would run, but also ram their foes with their dome heads. A fully-grown Triceratops or Torosaurus is far from defenseless. Their frill is made of solid bone."

Many of the horned dinosaurs stood their ground, facing their ancient enemies head on, displaying their vibrant frills and keeping the tyrannosaurs at horn's length.

Thomas: "Those ceratopsids are going head on, there's nothing more menacing than the frill and horns of an angry Triceratops or Torosaurus. The colorful markings are warning displays. A fight could lead to serious injury or even death on both sides so the T. Rex don't normally go after the adults."

French Narrator: But the younger Triceratops and herbivores know better than to stand their ground.

Soon the rescue team sees the running dinosaurs coming their way and they have to dodge them unless they want to get trampled, rammed, or gored.

Muslceman: "Oh No Bro!"

Finn: "Run!"

Spongebob: "Whoa!"

Dawn: "Scatter!"

The group quickly dodged the herbivores some of them like Akko screaming as they dodged getting hit by by the horns, dome heads, and bulky weight bodies

Kiawe: "Heads up!"

Goh: "Serpentine! Serpentine!"

Thomas: "Whoa! I feel like I've been hit by a train."

Charlie: "Wait look!"

French Narrator: A baby triceratops was separated from the herd and running the wrong way towards the jaws of death."

Blinded by fear and deaf to the strange biped's warnings, the baby Triceratops separated from the herd blundered right into the path of the large female lone T. rex! The monstrous predator quickly seized the opportunity and grabbed the youngster by the left flank, causing it to squeal in pain and terror. The humans could only look on helplessly. This was the law of the wild, established from the beginning of time. They could not interfere.

French Narrator: "The more it struggles, the more trouble it's in as the T-Rex's 13-inch serrated teeth sink deeper and deeper. But help is at hand."

Then adult female triceratops comes charging in to protect her offspring

Thomas: "There's a Triceratops here fighting back the big female T. rex and mothers will do anything to protect their offspring!"

The ceratopsian managed to gore the predator's left leg, forcing her to drop her prey who immediately bolted after the others. Maddened by the pain, the Tyrannosaurus howled with rage as she faced her new enemy.

Clemont: "That's gotta leave a mark! The horn's gone right into the upper thigh!"

The two giants clashed, fang and claw against horns and frill. The Tyrannosaurus tried to end the fight quickly with a bite to her enemy's neck. But several quick jabs from the Triceratops's horns kept her at bay. Another attempt, but the herbivore's bony frill deflected her aim as a sideways sweep forced her jaws back. The injured tyrannosaur roared her frustration as the Triceratops retreated a safe distance to rejoin her baby, badly hurt but alive back into the herd. Soon all the herbivores disappeared from the riverbed.

Thomas: "Not much success for them. Most predator hunts end in failure."

French Narrator: "Most of the herbivores have fled as for the pack have missed their chance, but it seems they spotted their next victim, The adult Alamosaurus which hadn't fled from the tyrannosaurs.

Iris: "Guys, we got another problem?!"

Sandy: "It's the long neck Alamosaurus!"

Thomas: "Normally a full grown Alamosaurus has no predators, But this large pack of Tyrannosaurs are very desperate to take down anything like that."

Soon the Tyrannosaurus pack was surrounding the sauropod. The sauropod bellowed, rearing up on its hind legs to make itself bigger and swinging its long tail that can deliver a powerful whip. This is a very extremely dangerous prey for even a large pack of T. Rex to take down this Titan.

French Narrator: "For the group, it's the chance they've been waiting for. Thomas sets up the time portal."

Thomas: "Here's the plan. Maybe we can get two dinosaur species for the price of one. If we can lure the Alamosaurus through the time portal...come on...and then maybe the T. rex will follow."

Charlie: "Let's do it then!"

Soon Charlie and Mallow appeared waving a flag at the long neck titanosaur. Trying to get the long neck's attention as the sauropod bellowed following the flag.

Charlie: "Hey look over here!"

Mallow: "Come here big guy!"

Charlie: "So far, so good, Mal!"

Mallow: "Yup, now we lead him!"

Thomas turns the remote button the remote as the portal turns on. Seeing the incoming Tyrannosaurus, the Alamosaurus ran, charging straight into the time portal. But the T. Rex didn't went through the portal spook them as they ran off

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Meanwhile back at the park. The time portal gave a rhythmic hum as it came to life in one end of the park's observation pens, a large stockade of towering wooden walls made to contain animals from a bygone era until a permanent home could be established in the park. From his place on the elevated walkway, the head keeper had his eyes on the wall of light, awaiting whatever would emerge from the time portal. He wouldn't have long to wait as a four-legged long neck dinosaur came barreling into the stockade.

Travis: "That's certainly not a T. Rex."

Travis nodded his head, a look of awe on his face at the sight of the large sauropod that now stood in the holding pen before him.

Travis: "It looks like an Alamosaurus, Not a bad start."

Keeper: "I was expecting more?"

Travis: "Oh, there's going to be more where this one came from, definitely However, let's get him moved."

Keeper: "Yes sir!"

French Narrator: "This Adult male Alamosaurus is a great start. It's not long before news spreads that Paleo Park's first dinosaur has arrived. Soon the Park's Vet and Nurse came to look over themselves."

Trey, Geronimo, and Phoebe were excited as they heard the news as they arrived at the holding pen seeing the new arrival, the first Paleo Park Dinosaur Resident.

Phoebe: "It's an Alamosaurus! Our first dinosaur, and look at him. He's magnificent."

Trey: "Impressive, I can hardly believe it, but they did it!"

Geronimo: "Excellent they're getting the hang of it, but it is quite a majestic creature."

French Narrator: Although he was an unexpected arrival, Akio thinks they've got the perfect place to put him.

Akio: "The Alamosaurus is a breathtaking animal, our first dinosaur. We need a good place to keep him. But he needs vegetation like trees to browse on. So Travis found an exhibit to place him in which would exhibit herbivores from the Hell Creek and eventually in the future, the Javelina Formation. That's where his enclosure will be."

French Narrator: "As the park's first resident settles in, the pressure's back on Travis to finish off the T. Rex enclosure.

Meanwhile there is construction with the T. Rex Pen as Travis overseeing the construction; it must be done soon, escape-proof, and ready once the T. Rex does come. Workers were building the fences, adding foliage and rocks, and digging the lake.

Travis: "I Didn't have a clue how to build a compound for a Tyrannosaurus rex. I've only seen one in a story book, but Thomas thinks this will do. There's lots of area to run around, lots of shade to get out of the sun. And if it wants to, it can stand up on the hill and survey its domain."

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French Narrator: "The enclosure will have to be finished soon because Thomas and the others are on their way back to where they left off.. 66 Million Years Ago, And this time they promised to return with a T. Rex."

We see the rescue team trekking through the floodplain swamps of Cretaceous, Montana. Although it was a half-success they saved the Alamosaurus, but they didn't save the T. Rex pack. Thomas noticed the injured lone Female that temporarily joined the pack for the hunt, but was gored on the left leg by a Triceratops and now it's wandering in search of food and they decided to bring her back instead.

Thomas: "It was a bit of a success we saved an Alamosaurus, but not as much as the T. Rex. Instead of the pack, we're going after this lone injured female and hopefully bring her back to the park. It's not just T. Rex we have to save, but the other dinosaurs and creatures as well. Shh! There she is over there! Get down!"

The crew hid in the bushes to see the injured Adult Female T. Rex she was about 40.2 feet in length. She had dark brown scales in color with black striping and spotted patterns with striping on the tail, a white underbelly, a mottled face that it black tip at the end of the snout, and mix of pale yellow peach and dark brown stripings, the eyes had a light orange eye ring and black markings surrounding the eyes, it's the lower portion of the legs were black striped and bronze-like yellow, about 12 feet tall and 12 meters long, it had keratin running down its nose, orbital hornlets, and brow which was light orange, gray jugular horns on the cheeks, two fingers on each arm, she had thin black bristle like filament feathering on the rest of the upper body, all the way to its tail, shoulder region, and arms with neck and back of the head forming a short hair crest mane, and notably she had a lot of scars over every part her body including the face and her new scars from the triceratops attack as she was resting to sleep off her injuries.

Misty: "There she is! she's taking a rest due to her injuries!"

Brock: "Makes sense! An injured animal is a desperate, dangerous animal, it could die from their injuries if not treated carefully."

Heffer: "Interesting, but what about the arms?"

Lynn: "Yeah those tiny little arms look so funny, I don't think they could pick up anything with it."

Thomas: "There's more to the arms than size. We thought the T. Rex had three fingers like every other theropod now we know it had two. When T. rex was first discovered, the humerus, the arm bone, were the only element of the forelimb known. For the initial mounted skeleton as seen by the public in 1915, Osborn substituted longer, three-fingered forelimbs like those of Allosaurus.

A year earlier, Lawrence Lambe described the short, two-fingered forelimbs of the closely related Gorgosaurus. This strongly suggested that T. rex had similar forelimbs, but this hypothesis was not confirmed until the first complete T. rex forelimbs were identified in 1989, belonging to the "Wankel rex".The remains of Sue also include complete forelimbs. T. rex arms are very small relative to overall body size, measuring only 1 meter (3.3 ft) long, and some scholars have labeled them as vestigial. They were about the size of my human arm and hand. Before you start making fun of T. Rex's arms, there were other dinosaurs with very small vestigial arms including Abelisaurs like Carnotaurus. However, the bones of T. Rex show large areas for muscle attachment, indicating considerable strength. This was recognized as early as 1906 by Osborn, who speculated that the forelimbs may have been used to grasp a mate during courtship. This concept dates from Joseph Leidy's 1865 reconstruction of Hadrosaurus, the first to depict a dinosaur in a bipedal posture. In 1915, convinced that the creature stood upright, Henry Fairfield Osborn, former president of the American Museum of Natural History, further reinforced the notion in unveiling the first complete T. rex skeleton arranged this way. It stood in an upright pose for 77 years, until it was dismantled in 1992. In 1970, Newman suggested that the forelimbs were used to assist Tyrannosaurus in rising from a prone position. Since then, other functions have been proposed, although some scholars find them implausible. But a new recent study of this year of 2022, Padian argued that the reduction of the arms in tyrannosaurids did not serve a particular function, but was a secondary adaptation; stating that as tyrannosaurids developed larger and more powerful skulls and jaws, the arms got smaller to avoid being bitten or torn by other individuals, particularly during group feedings. You don't want your arms bitten off by someone else at the dinner table."

Charlie: "Another possibility is that the forelimbs held struggling prey while it was killed by the tyrannosaurus' enormous jaws. They could still use their arms to grasp their prey when hunting This hypothesis may be supported by biomechanical analysis. T. rex forelimb bones exhibit extremely thick cortical bone, which has been interpreted as evidence that they were developed to withstand heavy loads. The biceps brachii muscle of an adult T. rex was capable of lifting 199 kilograms (439 lb) by itself; other muscles such as the brachialis would work along with the biceps to make elbow flexion even more powerful. The M. biceps muscle of T. rex was 3.5 times as powerful as the human equivalent. A T. rex forearm had a limited range of motion, with the shoulder and elbow joints allowing only 40 and 45 degrees of motion, respectively.

In contrast, the same two joints in Deinonychus allow up to 88 and 130 degrees of motion, respectively, while a human arm can rotate 360 degrees at the shoulder and move through 165 degrees at the elbow. The heavy build of the arm bones, the strength of the muscles, and the limited range of motion may indicate a system evolved to hold fast despite the stresses of a struggling prey animal. In the first detailed scientific description of Tyrannosaurus forelimbs, paleontologists Kenneth Carpenter and Matt Smith dismissed notions that the forelimbs were useless or that Tyrannosaurus was an obligate scavenger. The idea that the arms served as weapons when hunting prey has also been proposed by Steven M. Stanley, who suggested that the arms were used for slashing prey, especially by using the claws to rapidly inflict long, deep gashes on its prey. This was dismissed by Padian, who argued that Stanley based his conclusion on incorrectly estimated forelimb size and range of motion. It would be cool to see a T. Rex use its arms."

The group heard some chirping. Nearby gathered around a small clearing was a flock of turkey-sized dinosaurs, which had vestigial arms with a big claw with the two smaller arms hidden by the wings, half of which had larger feathered black crests on their heads. They were covered with dark gray brown feathers which was spotted black and white, the tail was long and black feather tipped same with the wings, there were black horizontal stripes on the side and two on the legs before degrading into black spots, the pale yellow belly and throat was also black spotted, the bare scale feet and snourt were dark gray, they had light brown collar, a brown nape neck, the face was masked with a black stripe running form the snout down to the neck bordered by two white stripes, and the lower jaw and upper throat were black. Currently, the whole flock was pecking around on the ground in search of insects using their long tongues like anteater.

Spongebob: "What are those dinosaurs? It seems they have tiny arms too."

Thomas: "They must be an Alvarezsaurid. I think I read somewhere about this dinosaur from a news article. These must be Trierarchuncus prairiensis, This dinosaur was only just named two years ago back in 2020. The name means "Captain Hook '' after its single-clawed hands. The first part of the generic name, Trierarch, means "triarch" (the title of captain of the trireme in classical Greece), while the second, uncus, is translated from Latin as "hook"; it can thus be translated as "captain hook", although its describers do not explicitly make the connection with the Peter Pan character. The specific name means "from the prairie" and refers to the plains of eastern Montana where the remains were discovered. The first remains were discovered in Montana in 1980 and it was informally known as the "Hell Creek alvarezsaur". The then-unnamed species was not mentioned again until it was mentioned briefly in the 2018 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology abstract book. The species and genus were scientifically described by Denver Fowler and colleagues in 2020 based on three claw phalanges.``

Spongebob: "How did we not know about this dinosaur?"

Sandy: Spongebob, Thoms said "This dinosaur was just recently discovered."Paleontologists and scientists are always discovering and naming new species."

Spongebob: "Ohh!"

Thomas: "Like all Alvarezsaurs, Trierarchuncus like its relatives would have been feathered, with short arms bearing one clawed digit, a bird-like head and long legs. Trierarchuncus is estimated to be around 54 centimeters (21 in) tall and 140-150 centimeters (55-59 inches) in length when fully grown. Trierarchuncus represents one of the few known alvarezsaurids from North America. At 66 million years old, it is the youngest known alvarezsaurid and is one of the youngest non-avian dinosaurs and one of the last. A study involving the Alvarezsaurids is that they fill in the ecological role of modern insect eating animals like Woodpeckers, Aardvarks, Armadillos, Numbats, Aye Aye Lemurs, and Pangolins. They would of use those claws to dig through termite nests use their long sticky tongues to slurp them up."

Mac: "Um guys look?!"

Bloo: "What?"

Charlie: "What is Macky? (Notice it) Oh!"

Mac pointed out that one of the Trierarchuncus has decided to approach the T. Rex. Does this little dinosaur have a death sentence or something as this Alvarezaur is approaching the jaws of Doom.

Lola: "That little dino is gonna get eaten? I can't watch!" (Covers her eyes)

Lucy: "Does it have a death wish?!"

The Female T. Rex notices the little Dino, but doesn't move; it lays down and abouts its jaws. It decided not to kill the small dinosaur, it had another thing on its mind. Instead the Trierarchuncus doesn't get eaten, it starts pecking the inside of the T. Rex's jaws using its tongue to slurp cleaning between the gaps of the teeth for scraps of meat.

Thomas: "It's alright, Although the T. Rex would want to eat this small dinosaur, it has less energy compared to large prey instead it's getting cleaned. The Trierarchuncus is cleaning the T. Rex's teeth feasting on bits of meat scraps stuck between the teeth for protein supplement like how some birds and fish are cleaning teeth of carnivores like sharks and crocodiles."

After the procedure was done. The T. Rex got up and walked limping away leaving the small dinosaurs behind, but this gives Thomas an opportunity.

Thomas: "Well, the T. Rex will wait, I think we should save the little dinos as well. Paleo Park is home to all creatures, not just the Big, but the small as well. Any ideas?"

Lana Loud: "I got some bait, A can of mealworms, I got from the backpack." (As she reveals the can)

Thomas: "Good thinking lans, You go on ahead!

Lana loud: "Yes!"

Lana walked carefully into the clearing, before coming to a stop once one of the scouts caught sight of her and chattered, alerting the flock. When the entire flock stared at her tensely, Lana slowly opened the can, took out a small handful of the mealworms, and placed the grubs on the ground near her feet.

Lana: "Come on! Don't be afraid! I got some nice juicy mealworms for you!"

With the alvarezsaurids watching, Lana slowly moved backwards, laying a trail of the grubs as she went. By the time she'd finished laying the trail, the dominant pair of the flock had tentatively approached the beginning of the trail and began feeding on the grubs, with the rest of the flock following suit. Once they got close enough, Lana opened her portal. While briefly startled, the alvarezsaurids noticed Lana drawing out the last of the mealworms and throwing them through the portal. This was enough to convince the little dinosaurs to eagerly run through to claim their snack.

Lincoln: "Way a go Lana!"

Lynn: "Yeah, you were awesome!"

Suddenly, what sounded like a mixture between a pig squeal and a parrot squawk filled the air, and the gang turned their heads towards the direction of the noise to see a small herd of strange-looking, pig-sized dinosaurs entering the clearing, resembling miniature versions of the triceratops and torosaurus – however, they had no horns, a considerably smaller frill and a much thicker tail. They were covered with gray scales with osteoderms with black stripes and some spots with inner gray circles over their body and tail, black feet, the belly was pale with white spots, the males sported a white lower jaw and nasal sac which have black stripes, the crests and eyering were red orange, the rest of the head and frill was bronze yellow, with the upper jaw having orange stripes, the frill openings were three stripe colors from white, blue, and red, the nape of the neck and throat were bright red with black stripes and white spots, a black strip marking stretched over their eye to the back of their frill, The females were identical, but the crests and frill were peach in color, the lower jaw has no stripes and the upper jaw had mango orange stripes, the white nasal sac lack stripes as well, and the frill opening was just white with a black stripe coming from the eye region down the middle, and they have black bristle lining across the backs of their tails. Their feet looked almost like scaly paws, complete with hand-like front feet.

Lana: "What was that? Whoa! Are those baby triceratops?"

Leni: "Looks like them, except there are no horns on them and they're about pig-sized.?!"

Charlie: "They don't look like baby triceratops. The Guide says they're Leptoceratops meaning 'Thin-horned face' and derived from Greek lepto-meaning 'small', 'insignificant', 'slender', 'meagre' or 'lean', kerat-meaning 'horn' and -ops meaning face, their skulls have been found in Alberta, Canada and Wyoming, and unlike triceratops and Torosaurus. There are no horns at all. They are small, no bigger than a cat or a pot-bellied pig, Leptoceratops was around 2 meters (6.6 ft) long and could have weighed between 68 to 200 kilograms (150 to 441 lb).

The first small ceratopsian named Leptoceratops was discovered in 1910 by Barnum Brown in the Red Deer Valley in Alberta, Canada. Barnum Brown, also called Mr. Bones, was an American paleontologist. As if you recall, he discovered the first documented remains of Tyrannosaurus during a career that made him one of the most famous fossil hunters working from the late Victorian era into the early 20th century and he was named after the circus showman P. T. Barnum. He described it four years later naming the species Leptoceratops gracilis. The first specimen had a part of its skull missing, but there were later well-preserved finds by C. M. Sternberg in 1947, including one complete fossil. Later material was found in 1978 in the Bighorn Basin of northern Wyoming. They belonged to the Ceratopsia family, a group of herbivorous dinosaurs with parrot-like beaks that thrived in North America and Asia during the Cretaceous Period Like Triceratops, Sinoceratops, Torosaurus, and Nasutoceratops. Although traditionally allied with the Protoceratopsidae, it is now placed in its own family, Leptoceratopsidae within the ceratopsia suborder, along with dinosaurs such as Udanoceratops and Prenoceratops. The relationships of Leptoceratops to ceratopsids are not entirely clear. Although most studies suggest that they lie outside the protoceratopsids and ceratopsids, some studies suggest that they may be allied with Ceratopsidae. The absence of premaxillary teeth is one feature that supports this arrangement.``

Lana Loud: "I get it now?"

Leni: "So they're not baby triceratops?"

Lori: "Yes, they're not."

Leni sheepishly smiled as the groups sees a Leptoceratops standing on two legs on watch duty, the rest of the herd were eating the leaves from the scrubs and bushes and flowers, resting on the dirt floor in the sun, and some Leptoceratops were leaving their burrows to start the day, one was a mother and her young which had pale yellow faces and frill, with light gray scales, and blak stripes, feet, and bristle quills which were quite long.

Thomas: "That one standing on its hind legs must be the scout, Leptoceratops could probably stand and run on their hind legs based analysis of forelimb function indicates that even though they could not pronate their hands, they could walk on four legs. Over there, some of them are leaving their burrows with their young, they must been dug by another animal and then they moved in, this is based on a discovery in 2019, fossils from the Hell Creek Formation found three fossil bone beds which revealed that not only was Leptoceratops a social animal, but also raised its young in burrows. Leptoceratops, like other ceratopsians, would have been a herbivore and given its small size and quadrupedal stance, Leptoceratops would have been a low feeder. The jaws were relatively short and deep, and the jaw muscles would have inserted over the large parietal squamosal frill, giving Leptoceratops a powerful bite. The teeth are unusual in that the dentary teeth have dual wear facets, with a vertical wear facet where the maxillary teeth sheared past the crown, and a horizontal wear facet where the maxillary teeth crushed against the dentary teeth. This shows that Leptoceratops chewed with a combination of shearing and crushing.

Between the shearing/crushing action of the teeth and the powerful jaws, a 2016 study revealed that Leptoceratops was able to chew its food much like several groups of mammals, which meant that it had a diet that consisted of tough, fibrous plant material as it probably was able to chew extremely tough plant matter like these ferns and flowers. I mean Flowering plants, also known as angiosperms, were the most diverse plants of the day, although ferns, cycads and conifers may still have been more common in terms of numbers."

Then suddenly a squawk was heard rustling in the bushes causing the Leptoceratops to be on edge, as the sentry let out a warning snort.

Bloo: "What was that?"

An instant later, a pack of turkey-sized theropods burst into the clearing and surrounded the Leptoceratops, scanning the herd for weaker individuals. These were raptors were covered almost completely head to toe with thick light brown feathers, with the only bare parts of their bodies being their snouts, feet, and uppermost fingers, the wings, the back edges of the hind legs, and tail feathers were dark gray brown with black barred stripes and feather tips, the legs and eye rings were scaly bright gold, the snouts were dark gray and black tipped, a black stripe marking over their eyes border by white stripes on their faces, the females had a white belly and throat, while the males had a pale yellow throat and chest with barred light brown stripes, and had a big crest head black feathers that ran down from its neck and towards the back.

Tucker(gasped): "Raptor!"

Lincoln: "Raptors?"

Max and Bonnie: "Raptors!"

Double D: "Don't worry, these ones are small!"

Thomas: "Those are Acheroraptor temertyorum, one of the smaller predators in the area. One of the two geologically youngest known species of dromaeosaurids, the other being Dakotaraptor. A basal cousin of Velociraptor, Acheroraptor is known from upper and lower jaw material. Acheroraptor was first described and named by David C. Evans, Derek W. Larson and Philip J. Currie in 2013. The generic name is derived from the Greek, Acheron, "underworld", in reference to the provenance from the Hell Creek Formation, and the Latin raptor, "thief". The specific name honours James and Louise Temerty, the chairman of Northland Power and the Royal Ontario Museum Board of Governors and his wife, who have supported the museum for many years. A recent 2022 study of eudromaeosauria reclassified Acheroraptor as a derived member of saurornitholestinae. The same study also classified Atrociraptor as a derived saurornitholestine and Deinonychus as a basal eudromaeosaur. Acheroraptor are opportunistic, taking a mixture of small and large prey as well as carrion.``

French Narrator: "The group is dealing with a pack of raptors who are hungry for some Leptoceratops, but Charlie sees this as an opportunity."

Charlie: "Leni and Jake, I need your assistance perhaps for Two for the price of one. We could get the Archeroraptors and Leptoceratops through the portal so here's the plan, Leni you get the Leptoceratops while Jake distracts the Acheroraptors."

Leni: "Got it!"

Jake: "I'm liking it!"

Soon Jake stretched himself to become a monster like creature as he started shouting and growling at the raptors instantly halted and before they noticed him for what they presumed was a larger predator. The Leptoceratops similarly went alert, but relaxed when they noticed Leni waving plant matter in her hand before summoning the portal and tossing the plant matter through.

Charlie: "Keep them in place, Jake!"

Jake: "I'm on it!"

Eager to escape from both the raptors and the mysterious sound, the entire herd began to stampede straight towards the portal. The Acheroraptor pack noticed the herd running away, and bolted after their escaping prey, hissing indignantly. Within minutes, both groups had successfully gone through the portal in their entirety.

Charlie: "Whoo! That's how we roll!"

Leni: "Alright!"

Jake: "Yeah baby!"

Thomas: "Well, done you three we got our first ceratopsids and raptors for Paleo Park."

Charlie: "It was nothing, I'm looking forward to working with those new raptors."

Buttercup: "And when did you start wanting to train raptors?"

Charlie: "I've been waiting for this opportunity by following Chris Pratt's example! Well, anyway guys, we've got to set up camp and, we'll look at the sky at nightfall – get a good idea of just how much time we've got."

As it was getting late, the entire team nodded in agreement. And once they'd made camp, they all looked up at the sky to check for anything that could indicate how long they had before the asteroid hit the earth. And sure enough, they could see an orb of light looming ominously in the night sky.

Amanda: "I'm guessing that's the doom-bringer, isn't it? It's a reminder that the end of the world's coming - soon, and things are gonna go straight to hell when it happens?!"

Mordecai: "Sure is!"

Rigby: "Hopefully we don't die on this mission."

Double D: "Don't worry Rigby, We've got 36 hours left, But I think we should keep a close eye on it during tonight's watch."

Rigby: "Ok, that's good to hear I suppose."

…..

French Narrator: "Back at the park, the staff were looking at the latest arrivals in the holding pens, luckily they were small and easy to handle."

Phoebe, Akio, and Trey were observing the holding pens alongside several other guards as Travis and the team worked to handle the latest arrivals, nodding with approval at the three new species. It was the Acheroraptor that Phoebe was focusing on.

Travis: "At least these ones are small and easy to transport, I just hope we're ready when the big ones come in."

Phoebe: "As you can see among the arrivals, we have our first Raptor. Although they are small. Charlie's probably really looking forward to training those, it's something he wanted to do."

. . . . .

French Narrator: "The Next morning, the crew are now more focused to save the T. Rex, but they always keep running into more distractions and detours."

Lisa: "We have to hurry, the doomsday clock might be running out of time."

They had been trekking through the forest for about an hour when, suddenly, a loud, booming squawk echoed through the air. Following the sound, they saw a small group of ostrich-sized dinosaurs walking through, resembling a cross between a cassowary and a chicken – their prominent crest and shortened beak gave them a strangely goofy look. They were light brown with black spots, the wings, and tail feathers were light brown, tan, and black tipped, they had scaly gray legs, beak, and crest, a dark brown gray nuchal cape, a small pink gular throat sac, a pale yellow cheek, a black eye ring around the eye and white patch surrounding it.

Ed: "Dino chickens!"

Thomas: "They may look like chickens Ed, I think these must be Oviraptorids, females I believe, and I don't know what's going on, but they must be heading somewhere.

It didn't take long as they arrived as they were standing in a clearing. There were more of them. Some were larger than the others, and with large throat wattles. They were covered with black feathers with some iridescent blue on the top of their bodies, the nuchal cape was bright yellow with blue edges, the wings were green blue, dark blue, and black tip, the tail feathers were black, dark red purple with white spot centers, green blue, dark blue, and black tip , the head and neck mane were green blue color, the throat gular sac was red with the inner region being dark blue, the cheeks were golden yellow, and the crest was red tipped, followed by yellow and light blue.

Thomas: "I might recognize these dinosaurs, Anzu wyliei, a monospecific genus of caenagnathid Oviraptorid dinosaur known from numerous skeletons. Although Anzu is Japanese for apricot, it's a reference to Anzû, a bird-like daemon in Ancient Mesopotamian religion."

Charlie: "That Anzû, A lesser divine being or monster. He was conceived by the pure waters of the Apsu and the wide Earth, or as son of Siris. Anzû is depicted as a massive bird who can breathe fire and water, although Anzû is alternately depicted as a lion-headed eagle."

Lori: "The guide says, '' It was named in 2014 by paleontologists Matthew C. Lamanna, Hans-Dieter Sues, Emma R. Schachner, and Tyler R. Lyson. It was named one of the "Top 10 New Species'' for new species discovered in 2014 by the International Institute for Species Exploration in 2015. Anzu wyliei is characterized by a toothless beak, a prominent crest, long arms ending in slender, relatively straight claws, long powerful legs with slender toes, and a relatively short tail. Anzu measured about 3.5 meters (11 ft) long, up to 1.8 meters (5.9 ft) tall at the hips and 200 kilograms (440 lb) to 300 kilograms (660 lb) in weight, and was the largest North American oviraptorosaur, though the Mongolian genus Gigantoraptor was larger than Anzu. In 2021, Atkins-Weltman used two methods to calculate the mass of Anzu. Using volumetric methods, the authors obtained a body mass of 216-280 kg; and using allometric methods, they obtained a result of 159-199 kg. Atkins-Weltman and co-authors, however, commented that volumetric methods are more accurate than allometric methods. They were discovered in 1998, when Fred Nuss of Nuss Fossils discovered the first fossils,They were initially referred to as "cf. Chirostenotes'', though more recent studies concluded that they represent new species. The first two partial skeletons of Anzu were discovered in 1998 by Fred Nuss Fossils on a private South Dakota ranch. The two specimens weren't buried together – the skeletons rested about 330 feet apart with the second individual in a rock layer about 11 feet below the first – but, once prepared by the commercial outfit Triebold Paleontology, it was clear that both represented the same dinosaur. Later two more fossils were found and together make up a fairly complete skeleton of Anzu wyliei, comprising about 75 to 80 per cent of the whole skeleton. The genus is notable as the first well-preserved example of a North American oviraptorosaur. According to Sues, "for almost a hundred years, the presence of oviraptorosaurs in North America was only known from a few bits of skeleton, and the details of their appearance and biology remained a mystery. With the discovery of A. wyliei, we finally have the fossil evidence to show what this species looked like and how it is related to other dinosaurs." As he quoted "The creature's appearance – "big crests on their skulls, a beak, no teeth, and a very bird-like skeleton" – and its discovery in the Hell Creek Formation led to it being jokingly nicknamed the "chicken from hell"."

Thomas: "It was quite a chicken from hell. Originally Matthew Lamanna, who devised the species' name, originally wanted to use a Latin or Greek version of "chicken from hell". However, he found that this nickname does not translate well in those languages, so he eventually settled on evoking and using the name of the bird-like daemon Anzu from the mythology of ancient Sumer, which itself roughly translates to "heavenly eagle". The specific name, wyliei, honors Wylie J. Tuttle, the grandson of one of the museum's donors, Lee B. Foster. It had been expected that oviraptorosaurs would be found in North America, as well as the documented specimens in Asia, as the two continents had a land connection during the Cretaceous, but the discovery of Anzu wyliei indicates that North American oviraptorosaurs were related more closely to each other than to their counterparts in Asia. Anzu was probably an omnivore or herbivore, although the beak is not as heavily constructed as in the Asian Oviraptoridae. Other differences from its Asian cousins include size – the Asian Oviraptoridae were smaller – as well as thicker legs and different lower jaws. The fossils of Anzu wyliei were found in mudstone rock that had once been part of ancient floodplains like the Hell Creek. This indicates that the species likely had a lifestyle significantly different from its Asian counterparts, which lived in arid or semi-arid conditions. Its lifestyle, according to Stephen Brusatte of the University of Edinburgh, was that of "a fast-running, ecological generalist that didn't quite fit the usual molds of meat-eating or plant-eating dinosaur." Its jaw morphology suggests that it could eat a variety of food items, including vegetation, small animals, and possibly eggs. While a number of its features were similar to those of modern birds, it was not an avian dinosaur and its line died out in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event 66 million years ago, along with all the rest of the non-avian dinosaurs. Its bird-like features are instead an example of convergent evolution. Matthew Lamanna comments that "it would have had a lot of birdy behaviors. When people think of a dinosaur, they think of something like a T. rex or a brontosaurus, and when they think of a bird, they think of something like a sparrow or a chicken. This animal, Anzu, has a mosaic of features of both of those groups, and so it basically provides a really nice link in the evolutionary chain." As for the purpose of Anzu's large crest is unclear; Sues notes that it "is very large and made of paper-thin bone, so it was not able to take much stress. All oviraptorosaurs have this crest but it is certainly the largest in Anzu wyliei. The most likely function is for display, showing off to members of your own species. The Australian cassowary has a similar crest which is thought to be used to attract mates, so it is possible that A. wyliei could have used its crest in a similar fashion." There have even been fossils that showed evidence of injuries, including a healed broken rib and an arthritic toe that was probably the result of a tendon being ripped away from the bone (an avulsion fracture). It is not known whether this indicates that the animals fought each other, or were injured by predators.``

Ed was quite happy as he loves chickens and they would be considered dinosaurs too since they're birds and seeing the Anzu is a mix of both made him even more excited. Luna on the other hand, was a bit afraid of them, because the Anzu and possibly other oviraptorids like Oviraptors and related species looked like giant chickens to her as she was stammering.

Lincoln: "What's wrong Luna?"

Thomas: "Luna, I know their appearance resembles chickens and you've had a fear of them since…I don't know since you were a little kid?"

Dawn: "What are they doing?"

The Anzu males were stomping feet in place, turning around on either side, Shaking and flapping their wings, Raising their tail fans in the air, Bobbing their heads, Bellowing and clucking as they raised their necks high revealing their inflated throat sacs in front of the females.

Iris: "Aww, it must be a mating ritual. These males are showing their affections trying to attract the females."

Thomas: "Good observation Iris, I saw this behavior in modern day animals especially birds called Lekking, what they are doing in this clearing is a Lek."

All: "A what?!"

Thomas: "A lek, The males are gathering to display to the females to mate with and I know that Lekking males can be quite aggressive and territorial, which is why I've come up with a plan to get them through the portal. In which one of us blows an air horn at them, the males will charge and during that time they'll run straight towards the portal and the females will follow. Eddy, you're up!" (While giving him the airhorn)

Eddy: "Ok then."

And so, Eddy walked into the clearing and began blaring his horn at assembled dinosaurs. The males' grudges were forgotten at the sight of this new competitor, they charged right at him and, when they had gotten close enough, Double D opened the portal and they dived through, into the present. The females, confused, followed close behind.

Thomas: "Nicely done."

Eddy: "It was nothing."

After this was done, they came to a river, as they suddenly heard a chattering sound. Following it, they found a group of small mammals, resembling a cross between an otter and a Tasmanian devil and about the size of a badger. Like Otters they were covered with brown fur with white underbellies, pale hands and webbed feet with claws, a gray tail that is black tipped, a pale eye spot around the eye, and white whiskers on the snout, brow, and back of their heads. They saw several of them eating on the shorelines, on the rocks, and fallen legs, they were eating a lot. One had a snail shell, Another had a fish, one was gnawing on a bone, Another had a juicy crab, one was crushing the shell of an ammonite that swam from the coast, and one was opening a clam. Of course there were squabbles between them fighting over their food which involved Biting, scratching, and hissing at each other.

French Narrator: It wasn't just the dinosaurs the team must rescue. But the other non-dinosaur creatures that live alongside them some like mammals who walk under the feet and in the shadows of the dinosaurian giants

Akko: "What is that? It's some kind of a mammal?"

Muscleman: "It looks like an otter with a head of a Tasmanian Devil?!"

Thomas: "I might know this one. They must be Didelphodons!"

Ron: "Look at them go!"

Rigby: "They're eating so quickly and fast."

Thomas: "The truth behind all this is that being a small animal, you have higher metabolism and you have to keep constantly eating."

Charlie: "Wow, and I thought our big men had gluttonous appetites."

Lotte: "The guide says Didelphodon named after Charles Marsh, means "Opossum tooth" meaning they are a stagodont metatherian marsupial."

Akko: "So you're saying the girls have a pouch for their joeys right?"

Thomas: "Well, Yes, Although today the Virginia Opossum is the only marsupial native to North America. Although these ones are perhaps little larger than a Virginia opossum, with a maximum skull length of 12.21 centimeters (4.81 in) and a weight of 5 kilograms (11 lb), Didelphodon was a large mammal by Mesozoic standards."

As Amanda got close to them the nearest one snapped at Amanda causing her to yelp; luckily she avoided those jaws, another snapped at Charlie, and another Dog who fell back.

Amanda: "Mean little bastards, aren't they?"

Dog: "These little guys have issues here?"

Charlie: "Yeah, they have an aggressive streak!"

Thomas: "Best be careful, The teeth have specialized bladelike cusps and carnassial notches, indicating that the animal was a predator; the jaws are short and massive and bear enormous, bulbous premolar teeth which appear to have been used for crushing. That's why their teeth and bite force are compared with the Tasmanian devil Analyses of a near-complete skull referred to Didelphodon show that it had an unusually high bite force quotient (i.e. bite force relative to body size) among Mesozoic mammals, suggesting a durophagous diet, some convergence with the carnassials of other predatory mammal groups have also been noted."

Leni: "Duro-huh?"

Lisa: "Durophagous, It means the eating behavior of animals that consume hard-shelled or exoskeleton-bearing organisms, such as corals, shelled mollusks, or crabs. Durophagy requires special adaptations, such as blunt, strong teeth and a heavy jaw."

Leni: "Oh that, like shellfish?"

Lisa: "Well, yes"

Thomas: "However, its skull lacks the vaulted forehead of hyenas and other specialized bone-eating durophagous mammals, indicating that its diet was perhaps a mixture of hard foodstuffs like snails and bones alongside small vertebrates and carrion; although omnivorous habits were suggested in the past, it appears that it was incapable of processing plant matter, rendering it more likely to be hypercarnivorous or durophagous. Didelphodon also possessed an extremely powerful bite force for its size, one of the highest of all known mammals, helping it to become one of the earliest marsupials to become an active predator-scavenger, It was part of the Metatherians, the group of mammals containing all of today's marsupials, which were diverse by the end of the Cretaceous. The cat-sized beast Didelphodon (Opossum Tooth) measured over a meter long, including its tail, and weighed up to 5 kilograms. This makes it quite hefty for a mesozoic mammal. It ate crustaceans, Snails, Fish, Eggs, Small animals, and if I recall it was big enough to eat baby dinosaurs if given the chance."

Lana: "And there's more the guide also says Although it has been argued on the basis of the shape of referred tarsal bones that Didelphodon and other stagodontids were semi-aquatic due to having flexible feet, these traits may in fact be evidence of increased rigidity in the foot. Nevertheless, a recently-found and as-of-yet undescribed specimen, located just 40 m (130 ft) away from a Triceratops in a riverbed, suggests that Didelphodon may have possessed an otter-like body with a tasmanian devil-like skull. A study that is being prepared by Kraig Derstler, Greg Wilson, Robert Bakker, Ray Vodden and Mike Triebold will describe this new specimen, housed in the Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center, and another study on Mesozoic mammal locomotion demonstrates that Didelphodon groups with semi-aquatic species.

The evolution of Didelphodon and other large stagodontids (as well as large deltatheroideans like Nanocuris) occurs after the local extinction of eutriconodont mammals, suggesting passive or direct ecological replacement. Given that all insectivorous and carnivorous mammal groups suffered heavy losses during the mid-Cretaceous, it seems likely these metatherians simply occupied niches left after the extinction of eutriconodonts. But how to lure them in?"

Double D: "I got something to lure them in."

As the Didelphodon finished eating they're still hungry they noticed some fish tossed to the floor and laid out in a trail style fashion. The plan was to leave a trail of fish, leading up to a large pile – the swarming mammals followed the trail and, once they reached the end of it, Ed opened the portal – after initially recoiling, the mammals tore through the portal after the fish, into the present.

Thomas: "Good work, you two."

Mac: "Yeah, way to go."

Double D: "Why thank you, I appreciate your compliments."

Then they heard rumbling coming from the forest, as everyone froze and stood still, it sounded something large and big, could it be their T. Rex? Thomas needs someone to investigate the sound, someone who is brave and fearless enough to deal with this strange creature.

Thomas: Charlie I need you to investigate that sound. It could be our T. Rex just be careful out there?

Charlie: "Don;t worry, I will Numbuh 2 and 4 you're coming with me, anyone else care to join them?"

Mallow: "Me!"

Danny: "I'm in!"

Lincoln: "I'll join!"

Gerald: "You betcha!"

Charlie: "Alright then, we got this, Thom. Don't you worry about it."

Soon the Human and the six toons went into the forest following the source of the rumbling sound which sounded like snoring? It was getting closer and closer as they went through the ferns, cycads, scrubs, flowers, and they entered the clearing, But soon regretted it. Right before them was a T. Rex, but not the one they were looking for. It was a Large Adult Male, He had dark brown scales in color with black striping and spotted patterns with striping on the tail, a white underbelly, a mottled face that it black tip at the end of the snout, and mix of pale yellow orange and dark brown stripes and blotches, on the sides of the neck were red patches that go down the neck, a red gular sac throat, the eyes had a yellow orange eye ring and black markings surrounding the eyes, it's the lower portion of the legs were black striped and bronze-like yellow, about 10 feet tall and 12.4 meters long, it had bumpy keratin running down its nose, orbital hornlets, and brow which was yellow orange more pronounced in its large size and horn like, gray jugular horns on the cheeks, two fingers on each arm, h had thin black bristle like filament feathering on the rest of the upper body, all the way to its tail, shoulder region, and arms with neck and back of the head forming a big hair crest mane, and notably he had a lot of scars over every part of his body both from his prey and battling with rivals.

Mallow: "It's a T. Rex."

Lincoln: "It looks like a Male?"

Numbuh 2: "One thing for sure we don't wanna wake it up?!"

Charlie: "Shhh!" (whispering) "We wouldn't want that now do we, Now remember no loud noises"

As the group slowly walks, the Male T. Rex wakes up and gets up to listen, But the group is hidden. It continued silently walking through the clearing in search of prey, Charlie's group stood, rooted to the spot as the theropod scanned the clearing; he didn't want it noticing him and the others. When the theropod ignored them, he quietly sighed in relief – they'd been scared at a distance, but seeing them up close, they felt as insignificant as a mouse. Quietly and slowly, they began to back away from the giant, in the hope that he wouldn't be seen.

Numbuh 2: "Phew!"

Suddenly, the nearest tyrannosaur paused and sniffed the air, before turning its head to look at him. Charlie's group went rigid; They'd been found. The tyrannosaur let out a low, crocodilian hiss, before turning towards them, regarding him with a vicious coldness, and beginning to move toward the group, its massive strides quickly covering the distance. There was only one sensible thing to do. Run. This was something Hoagie did as he ran and screamed.

Numbuh 4: "Come back here! You coward!"

Charlie: "Forget it, just run away!"

They all screamed and ran. But the Tyrannosaurus grabs Numbuh 4 by the underwear as it pulls him in with his jaws and tossed and swung the screaming Australian boy around.

Charlie: "Wally!"

Numbuh 4: (screaming) No please no! Not the classic wedgie! (Screams) No, Not the reverse!"

Charlie: "Danny, ghost Ray it!"

Danny loaded his ghost ray gun grunting and started firing his ghostly energy blasts, but to no effect. This only pissed the T. Rex even more.

Numbuh 4: "Not the rock me around the world wedgie! This is worse than Bully Island!" (Screaming and whimpering) " Not the Yo Yo Wedgie! Have mercy!

Mallow: "Is there anything we can do?!"

Lincoln: "I'm out of ideas!"

Numbuh 4: not the wedgie on the beach! Anything but the Texas wedgie! Not the wedgie wedgie! I can't feel my buttcheeks!"

Gerald: "So painful! So horribly wrong!"

Charlie then grabs a rock and throws it at the theropod's head. That made the T. Rex even angry as it growled, turning his attention to the human while at the same time dropping Numbuh 4 to the ground below roaring at Charlie.

Charlie: "Hey lizard breath! Come and get some! Mallow, you and the others, tend to him!"

After Numbuh 2 picked up Numbuh 4, They all ran from the theropod as they split up with Charlie leading the T. Rex toons ran up a tree and doing so the T. Rex rammed it's head at the trunk tree trying to get them off soon the Toons fell down and slide down off the back of the carnivore.

Numbuhs 2 and 4: "Yabba Dabba Do!"

As the toons landed into the bushes, but now only the T. Rex sees Charlie instead as its new target.

Charlie: "Oh come on!"

The tyrannosaur, its prey drive activated, took off after him. Suddenly, Charlie foot hit a rock and he fell, before standing up, tired and bruised, to see his pursuers now advancing towards him; whilst T. Rex's average top speed was slower than his, it had a longer stride length. He stood no chance, unless he hid. He ran towards a hollow log and dived inside, wedging himself in. As he hid, he saw the theropods' cold yellow eyes staring intently and smelt their hot, stinking breath – for these predators, out of sight did not mean out of mind. A squawk alerted him to two other creatures, hiding in the log – a snake and a small theropod dinosaur. From its lack of pelvic spurs, Charlie could tell the snake was a female and he knew this was a dromaeosaur of some kind – possibly Dromaeosaurus.

The snake was about eight feet long; it looked similar to either an African Rock Python or Ball Python, with light brown scales arranged in brown blotches joined in a broad, irregular stripe near the eye region, copper eyes, a pale underbelly, and the tail region had black stripes.

The theropod was about six feet long with short, muscular arms, a gray scale snout that is black tipped, covered with dark gray feathers, the head was brown, with white stripes running down the sides of the necks from the eye region to the belly which was white, gray brownish spots dotted the body, a dark gold eyering, the front portion of the leg was lighter gray grading down with white with black barred stripings, the wings were gray with black tips with a row of white spots on the primary feathers, with three grasping fingered curved claws, that looked vicious. The three-toed feet were featherless and gray; the second toe was tipped with the large iconic, sickle-shaped claw, and its long tail with gray black tipped feather coverts, ringed with white plumes tipped with black on the tail feathers.

Charlie: "A Raptor, why does it have to be a raptor?! And a snake? Come on!"

But the two creatures were stuck with him because they were all afraid of something bigger which was the T. Rex. Suddenly, the log began cracking and crunching – Charlie turned to see a tyrannosaur lodging its massive head in the log, splintering the log as it moved forward. The snake and dromaeosaur moved closer to each other, any previous hostilities have been forgotten – in the face of these superior predators, all of them were prey.

Noticing a hole in the log made by the tyrannosaurs, the dromaeosaur turned to both Charlie and the Dinilysia snake and gave them an almost regretful look, before jumping out of the hole in the log and running out of the clearing. Fortunately, this seemed to be the distraction Charlie and the Dinilysia needed. The tyrannosaurs took off after the smaller theropod, chasing it out of the clearing. It won't be the last time he would see the Raptor and T. Rex. However, Charlie knew that the tyrannosaurs would be back – he had to use this opportunity. Gently as he could, he picked up the terrified Dinilysia, making sure to restrain her head in order to prevent being bitten. Launching himself off the ground, he tore out of the log like a shot, rushing to meet his teammates outside the clearing, being careful not to drop the snake as he did so.

Mallow: "Charlie!" (As she hugs him)

Charlie: "Whoa, easy, Mal! I'm all good!"

Charlie: "How's Wally?"

Danny: "The damage is quite unnerving with those wedgies quite bad"

Numbuh 2: "He'll be alright, Just need to perform some "undergarment surgery" and Might I ask how you found that snake?"

Charlie: "Found her in a log that was being torn apart by a Tyrannosaurus – nearly ate the both of us. I also might need a brown sack bag to put her in."

Mallow: "Here you go, then."

She gave the bag to Charlie as they all headed back to the team who were waiting for them.

Thomas: "Geez what happened to you guys?"

Charlie: "We found a T. Rex, But not ours. It's a male and it chased us all around the forest."

Lincoln: "And let's just say, we're exhausted."

Numbuh 2: "And Numbuh 4 got a wedgie attack A pretty banged up bad one that is."

Numbuh 4: "The pain!"

Soon after tending to Numbuh 4's wounds our heroes continued walking to search for their female T. Rex. They had been searching for animals for about an hour, before they heard a low, panting sound.

Lana Loud: "You guys hear that it sounds like a wounded animal."

Soon they took off after the sound.

Following the sound into a clearing, they saw a large animal, hunched over and breathing heavily in the clearing. It looked like a cross between a bat, a marabou stork and an Andean condor, with a twenty-foot wingspan. Its body was covered with gray fur with white lining stripes running down its body, the second layer seen mostly on the arms and legs was brownish gray, the wings were dark gray with the wing edges dark brown with black spots and the wingtips black tipped.

The head was large, with a straight, stork-like, a pink gular throat sac, a red line running down the eye region with a black marking around the red eyering, a patch of black neck fur crest, toothless beak which was yellow and black tipped, and a small M-shaped crest which was splotched with black spots red at the front and orange at the back. It was a pterosaur which everyone recognizes at an instant.

Lori: "What is that?"

Lisa: "Quetzalcoatlus, late Cretaceous should've stayed there."

Billy: ?A pterodactyl!"

Dexter: "It's a Pterosaur, but close. This one is Quetzalcoatlus,One of the largest pterosaurs ever known and it was one of the largest known flying animals of all time. Quetzalcoatlus is a member of the family Azhdarchidae, a family of advanced toothless pterosaurs with unusually long, stiffened necks. Its name comes from the Aztec feathered serpent god, Quetzalcoatl, in Nahuatl."

Charlie: "The name translates to means "Precious serpent" or "Quetzal-feathered Serpent" and would have been inspired by the quetzal bird. In the 17th century, Ixtlilxóchitl, a descendant of Aztec royalty and historian of the Nahua people, wrote, "Quetzalcoatl, in its literal sense, means 'serpent of precious feathers', but in the allegorical sense, 'wisest of men'." Among the Aztecs, whose beliefs are the best-documented in the historical sources, Quetzalcoatl was related to gods of the wind, of the planet Venus, of the dawn, of merchants and of arts, crafts and knowledge. He was also the patron god of the Aztec priesthood, of learning and knowledge. Quetzalcoatl was one of several important gods in the Aztec pantheon, along with the gods Tlaloc, Tezcatlipoca and Huitzilopochtli. Two other gods represented by the planet Venus are Quetzalcoatl's ally Tlaloc (the god of rain), and Quetzalcoatl's twin and psychopomp, Xolotl, the dog-headed soul-guide for the dead. Quetzalcoatl, the Aztec god of the sun and wind, air, and learning, wears around his neck the "wind breastplate" ehēcacōzcatl, "the spirally voluted wind jewel" made of a conch shell. This talisman was a conch shell cut at the cross-section and was likely worn as a necklace by religious rulers, as such objects have been discovered in burials in archaeological sites throughout Mesoamerica, and potentially symbolized patterns witnessed in hurricanes, dust devils, seashells, and whirlpools, which were elemental forces that had significance in Aztec mythology."

Thomas: "I see why it's named after an Aztec God. The first Quetzalcoatlus fossils were discovered in Texas, United States, from the Maastrichtian Javelina Formation at Big Bend National Park (dated to around 68 million years ago) in 1971 by Douglas A. Lawson, then a geology graduate student from the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin. The specimen consisted of a partial wing (in pterosaurs composed of the forearms and elongated fourth finger), from an individual later estimated at over 10 m (33 ft) in wingspan.

Lawson discovered a second site of the same age, about 40 km (25 mi) from the first, where between 1972 and 1974 he and Professor Wann Langston Jr. of the Texas Memorial Museum unearthed three fragmentary skeletons of much smaller individuals. Lawson in 1975 announced the find in an article in Science. That same year, in a subsequent letter to the same journal, he made the original large specimen, the holotype of a new genus and species, Quetzalcoatlus northropi. The genus name refers to the Aztec feathered serpent god, Quetzalcoatl. The specific name honors John Knudsen Northrop, the founder of Northrop, an American aircraft manufacturer from its formation in 1939 until its 1994 merger with Grumman to form Northrop Grumman. The company is known for its development of the flying wing design, most successfully the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber. They drove the development of large tailless flying wing aircraft designs resembling Quetzalcoatlus. But this is a different smaller species, Back then it was assumed that the smaller specimens were juvenile or subadult forms of the larger type species. Later, when more remains were found, it was realized they could have been a separate species. This possible second species from Texas was provisionally referred to as a Quetzalcoatlus sp. by Alexander Kellner and Langston in 1996, indicating that its status was too uncertain to give it a full new species name. But the smaller specimens are more complete than the Quetzalcoatlusnorthropi holotype, and include four partial skulls, though they are much less massive, with an estimated wingspan of 5.5 m (18 ft). This species is Quetzalcoatluslawsoni in 2021, named after the genus' original describer. I don't know why this one is doing here in Hell Creek, although there has been an azhdarchid neck vertebra that may belong to Quetzalcoatlus, discovered in 2002. But my guess is based on the idea that huge pterosaurs such as Quetzalcoatlus could have made long, transcontinental flights."

Numbuh 2: "You should at the time, the nature of flight in Quetzalcoatlus and other giant azhdarchids was poorly understood until serious biomechanical studies were conducted in the 21st century. One early (1984) experiment by Paul MacCready used practical aerodynamics to test the flight of Quetzalcoatlus. MacCready constructed a model flying machine or ornithopter with a simple computer functioning as an autopilot. The model successfully flew with a combination of soaring and wing flapping; the model was based on a then-current weight estimate of around 80 kg (180 lb), far lower than more modern estimates of over 200 kg (440 lb). The method of flight in these pterosaurs depends largely on weight, which has been controversial, and widely differing masses have been favored by different scientists. Some researchers have suggested that these animals employed slow, soaring flight, while others have concluded that their flight was fast and dynamic. In 2010, Donald Henderson argued that the mass of Q. northropi had been underestimated, even the highest estimates, and that it was too massive to have achieved powered flight. He estimated it in his 2010 paper as 540 kg (1,190 lb). Henderson argued that it may have been flightless. Other flight capability estimates have disagreed with Henderson's research, suggesting instead an animal superbly adapted to long-range, extended flight. In 2010, Mike Habib, a professor of biomechanics at Chatham University, and Mark Witton, a British paleontologist, undertook further investigation into the claims of flightlessness in large pterosaurs. After factoring wingspan, body weight, and aerodynamics, computer modeling led the two researchers to conclude that Q. northropi was capable of flight up to 130 km/h (80 mph) for 7 to 10 days at altitudes of 4,600 m (15,000 ft). Habib further suggested a maximum flight range of 13,000–19,000 km (8,000–12,000 mi) for Q. northropi. Henderson's work was also further criticized by Witton and Habib in another study, which pointed out that although Henderson used excellent mass estimations, they were based on outdated pterosaur models, which caused Henderson's mass estimations to be more than double what Habib used in his estimations, and that anatomical study of Q. northropi and other big pterosaur forelimbs showed a higher degree of robustness than would be expected if they were purely quadrupedal. This study proposed that large pterosaurs most likely utilized a short burst of powered flight to then transition to thermal soaring. However, a study from 2022 suggests that they would only have flown occasionally and for short distances, like the Kori bustard (the world's heaviest bird that actively flies) and that they were not able to soar at all. Studies of Quetzalcoatlus northropi and and the recently discovered Quetzalcoatlus lawsoni published in 2021 last year by Kevin Padian and colleagues instead suggested that Quetzalcoatlus was actually a powerful flier with a large breastbone to support the necessary muscles for creating the flight stroke and would probably have used its powerful hind legs to launch as high as 8 ft (2.4 m) when taking off, allowing it to gain enough height and momentum to begin the necessary downstrokes needed for takeoff. This same study also suggests that Quetzalcoatlus had limited walking motion in its wings, with the limbs on each side of the body being moved together and the forelimbs being lifted out of the way of the hindlimbs. This study also suggests that the wings of pterosaurs were only attached to the body, with the legs and feet being tucked underneath, much like how modern birds tuck their legs beneath their own bodies in flight. This goes to show Quetzalcoatlus was more a ground living pterosaur only flying when it needed to, but I don't think this one can for some reason."

The pterosaur looked like a sorry sight. One of his wings was torn and several deep wounds covered his body – he had lost so much blood he could barely stand. He blinked as a wound on his head dripped blood into his eyes. The pterosaur let out a quiet caw; from such an awe-inspiring creature, it sounded weak, almost plaintive. The team looked at each other and came to one conclusion. He was going to die if he stayed here.

Thomas: "You're right, Numbuh 2, look at those wounds, it could've either been from a fight with another pterosaur or with a predator like a T. Rex."

French Narrator: Although there are creatures people are afraid of because of how monstrous and scary they can be. These creatures can feel pain and get hurt really bad and you can't help, But feel sorry for them. The Team can't leave this pterosaur behind, they must take it back to Paleo Park."

Numbuh 2 got some meat out of the bait bag and dangled it in front of the giant pterosaur, who raised his head to regard the human boy toon, before saying quietly and reassuringly.

2: "C'mon, big fella. Follow the meat. C'mon, big guy; you know you can't stay here."

The giant pterosaur, attracted by the lure of the meat, waddled tentatively, weakly, towards Numbuh 2 and the meat. Numbuh 1 activated the portal and the giant pterosaur went through to the present.

. . . . .

At the park, The crew sees the pterosaur arriving from the portal as it collapses to the ground. This was noticed by Travis who decided to call in the vets to check on this patient.

Travis: "My God! This one is in bad shape Phoebe! Geronimo! We have a patient waiting for you!"

As he spoke to them through the communicator, this pterosaur was going to die if he didn't get the help quickly.