Lincoln with a Flashlight pointed it towards the much darker interior portions of the cave, and switched it on at full brightness...right in the pockmarked face of a bear, An eye shot up as it woke up. Soon the Rescue Team heard roaring and screaming

Charlie: "What was that!?"

Lincoln: "RUN! There's a Bear in here!"

Amanda: "Oh shit!"

They soon saw the bear, It was huge and its fur was dark brown in the upper and lower portions like the belly and legs with the middle being more normal brown, a grayish brown snout, they noticed it was covered with scars over its body and face with a crippled left leg and one battle even blinded his right eye. They run out of the cave as the bear comes up and rears up in his hind legs roaring before chasing them towering over them.

French narrator: "Our heroes have chosen the wrong creature to disturb."

Filburt: "That's the biggest bear I've ever seen!"

Thomas: "Judging by the size, it's a Cave Bear!"

French Narrator: "Cave Bears can stand 13 feet tall, weighing up to three-quarters of a ton, and are more muscular than any other bear."

Thomas: "Get moving! Run! Drop the camera if you have one! Just move, move, move!"

As Thomas spoke with the cameraman as everyone ran for their lives with the bear chasing them. Jake spots some trees and points for us to climb up the trees as they could down the slope and away from the cave, the bear following close behind and roaring in rage at them. Soon everyone starts climbing up the trees as fast they could for safety.

French Narrator: "Cave bears may be huge, but luckily they can 't climb trees."

Lotte: "Well, Good thing, It can't climb."

Mac:" I think we must of disturbed it when it was sleeping."

Charlie: "Of course, they hibernate,"

Double D: "That's another adaptation for animals in the winter. Some animals like Bears hibernate through the winter when food is scarce. Bears can sleep more than 100 days without eating, drinking, or going to the bathroom! Bears can actually turn their pee into protein. Although it is actually a process called torpor.

Thomas: "That what Double D said is true. They don't sleep all the time; they wake up sometimes when danger approaches,if the opportunity exists to exit the den to feed or if somebody like us disturbs their sleep. Cave Bears weighed about the same as a modern day Kodiak bear and one of the largest bears ever to exist. And true to their name these bears use the caves more than modern day brown bears, they use the caves for shelter and during hibernation. Many fossil bones have been found in many caves throughout Europe and Asia."

Double D: "Indeed, The cave bear's range stretched across Europe; from Spain and Great Britain in the west, Italy, parts of Germany, Poland, the Balkans, Romania, Georgia (country) and parts of Russia, including the Caucasus; and northern Iran. Although no traces of cave bears have been found in Scotland, Scandinavia or the Baltic countries, which were all covered in extensive glaciers at the largest numbers of cave bear remains have been found in Austria, Switzerland, northern Italy, northern Spain, southern France, and Romania, roughly corresponding with the Pyrenees, Alps, and Carpathians. The huge number of bones found in southern, central and eastern Europe has led some scientists to think Europe may have once had herds of cave bears. Others, however, point out that, though some caves have thousands of bones, they were accumulated over a period of 100,000 years or more, thus requiring only two deaths in a cave per year to account for the large numbers. The cave bear would have inhabited low mountainous areas, especially in regions rich in limestone caves and avoiding open plains, preferring forested or forest-edged terrains. Even a 'completely preserved' ice age cave bear carcass was found by reindeer herders in Russia. The preserved carcass was estimated to be between 22,000 and 39,500 years old, with radiocarbon dating proposed to ascertain a more accurate age. It is the only find of its kind with full soft tissue preservation such that even the nose was still intact. The preserved bear was found on Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island, part of the Lyakhovsky Islands archipelago. Although recent studies have shown it was a Brown Bear. In a separate discovery, a well preserved cave bear cub was also found."

Thomas: "Standing close to 3.5 meters (11.50 ft) tall while rearing up, the cave bear had a very broad, domed skull with a steep forehead. Its stout body had long thighs, massive shins and in-turning feet, making it similar in skeletal structure to the brown bear. Cave bears were comparable in size to, or larger than, the largest modern-day bears. The average weight for males was 350 to 600 kg (770 to 1,320 lb), though some specimens weighed as much as 1,000 kg (2,200 lb), while females weighed 225 to 250 kg (495 to 550 lb). And by the looks of that Individual I can tell he's a male cave bear. The female has much smaller proportions. Of cave bear skeletons in museums, 90% are male due to a misconception that the female skeletons were merely "dwarfs". But it turns out that Cave bears grew larger during glaciations and smaller during interglacials, probably to adjust heat loss rate. I'm certain he was hibernating in that cave and he's packing in berries and the early spring vegetation. Bears are not very carnivorous. They feed on would scavenge on carcasses now then and fish. Cave bear teeth were very large and show greater wear than most modern bear species, suggesting a diet of tough materials. However, tubers and other gritty food, which cause distinctive tooth wear in modern brown bears, do not appear to have constituted a major part of cave bears' diets on the basis of dental microwear analysis. The morphological features of the cave bear chewing apparatus, including loss of premolars, have long been suggested to indicate their diets displayed a higher degree of herbivory than the Eurasian brown bear. Indeed, a solely vegetarian diet has been inferred on the basis of tooth morphology. Results obtained on the stable isotopes of cave bear bones also point to a largely vegetarian diet in having low levels of nitrogen-15 and carbon-13, which are accumulated at a faster rate by carnivores as opposed to herbivores. So he wasn't hunting us. Because we disturbed him, he chased us.

Squidward: "I can relate, nobody wants to be disturbed from their sleep."

Charlie: "No kidding, Squidy." As everyone chuckles leaving Squidward not amused.

Ron: "Say how long do you think we should stay up here for?"

Kim: "Not long until the bear is returning to its cave."

However, the bear soon slowed down and came to a stop, panting and heaving as we came to a stop three yards away and turned to face it as we climbed down the trees. The bear, a massive brown furred creature, looked like it was close to collapse. There was a brief wobble in the cave bear's front legs, and with a weakened growl, it laboriously turned around and started slowly making its way back towards its cave – as it moved away from them, Thomas and Lana took note of a detail that they'd failed to notice; it was limping on its left hind leg and there were gashes on its back.

Lana Loud: "Oh my. Something's wrong with him"

Thomas: "This isn't good, waking hibernating bears can be downright lethal. Waking up from hibernation requires a lot of energy, depleting reserves that are key to surviving the winter. There is a mortality rate in cave bears. Death during hibernation is a common end for cave bears, mainly individuals that failed ecologically during the summer season through inexperience, sickness or old age. Some cave bear bones show signs of numerous ailments, including spinal fusion, bone tumors, cavities, tooth resorption, necrosis (particularly in younger specimens), osteomyelitis, periostitis, rickets and kidney stones. Male cave bear skeletons have been found with broken bacula, probably due to fighting during the breeding season. Cave bear longevity is unknown, though it has been estimated that they seldom exceeded twenty years of age. Paleontologists doubt adult cave bears had any natural predators, save for pack-hunting wolves and cave hyenas, which would probably have attacked sick or infirm individuals."

Then things got worse, with one last growl and, the cave bear collapsed onto the snowy slope, at least a yard or so away from the cave entrance, groaning in defeat.

Charlie: "I guess something else must have woken it up before we came could be a predator or human hunters?

Thomas: "Good guesses, Other than climate change, another factor of the extinction of the cave bears would be humans, Not only the bears were a threat and a source of food. They also competed for cave sites for shelter."

After the group came down the trees. We see Lana Loud approaching the bear in sadness and sympathy.

Lori: "Lana get back here!"

Lola: "Lana the bear can kill you!"

Lincoln: "Lana! Stop!"

Lana Loud: "Listen, I can do it, This bear doesn't want to hurt us and he's tired and hurt, Trust me!"

Lana calmly made her way over to the exhausted cave bear, immediately beginning to speak as she did so.

Lana(to the bear): "It's alright," (her voice soft and soothing.) "Everything's alright now. I'm gonna have a look at you and then send you somewhere where you can be more comfortable and recover properly…"

It was at this point she made it directly in front of the bear, and he lifted his head and snarled at her, opening his eyes in the process. As Lana stood still from her current position, waiting for the bear to calm down, she noticed how he was riddled with scars, clear relics from myriad past injuries. Several of them appeared to have been inflicted by other animals, but many others appeared to have all too clearly been inflicted by humans. Most gruesomely, the bear's right eye was a milky white, likely from a Cro-Magnon blinding him there with a burning brand. Lana got down on her knees and carefully extended her hand towards the still cave bear's right shoulder. The bear growled, a wary look in his single good eye, but was too tired and weak to do anything else, and eventually calmed down with a low grunt as Lana patted her hand upon his right shoulder.

Lana: "There there, There we go. I'm not going to hurt you. It's alright. Nothing bad's going to happen. You'll be safe real soon, I promise"

Lisa came over to have look at the bear's injuries

Lisa: "Whatever cut the Ursus spelaeus up did it non-fatally, But it's too weak to move; especially with that one leg of his he's limping on. He'll freeze to death out here."

Luan: "I'm guessing that means we have to move him to the park?

This is going to be Un-bearable!" (Laughs)

Thomas: "Yes Luan, that's where he's going. Let's contact the park and see if we can get someone to transport him."

"A few minutes later, Geronimo was all bundled up and standing by the cave bear, with a similarly bundled up clad Phoebe Keane and a security keeper standing at either side of her, the former for veterinary assistance and the latter for defense just in case the bear tried to attack, with the portal glowing and reflecting behind them. Geronimo nodded his head as she continued examining the bear.'

Geronimo: "Yup, He needs treatment – urgently."

Phoebe: "Don't worry, Lana, we'll make sure he gets the care he needs."

Lana: "Thank you!"

Phoebe: "No problem. Keep up the good work, toon gang."

And so, the groups and vets, plus two other Paleo veterinary personnel proceeded to load the exhausted cave bear onto a large heavy-duty stretcher and carried him the short distance between them and a veterinary truck waiting immediately on the other side of the open portal. Once the bear had been loaded, the back door of the truck was closed, and Geronimo and Phoebe boarded the driver's section. Once the truck had traveled far enough away, Lori closed the portal. After a brief pause,

Thomas: "Hopefully the bear will be alright and since there might be other caves nearby. We should try and find some more for the park."

Lisa: "I managed to catch sight of a couple other cave entrances. If you think you can handle the cold long enough, I'm willing to have us check those other caves to see if we can find anything else."

Lincoln: "You mean more bears?!"

Charlie: "I think We can manage. We just need a small dim of light

and to wake them up too."

" And so, for the next fifteen minutes, our heroes dutifully entered and explored all six of the additional caves they were able to find next door to the one where they'd found the first cave bear they'd just rescued. The first two caves turned out to be empty, but the next three each contained cave bears – two adult males and two females with two cubs each. They lure them out using

klaxons air horns or shouting into the cave. Naturally, all six of these cave bears ended up sent through the portal.

Ed: "Hello!"

As his voice echoes into the cave a roar of bear is heard in response as a brown bear runs out although smaller than the Cave Bear charges into the portal.

Tucker: "Say was that bear smaller than the last ones?"

Double D: "I don't think these ones are cave bears?!"

Lisa: "Of course. They must be Steppe Brown Bears, a tad different from the Cave Bears. An extinct subspecies of modern day Brown Bear (Ursus arctos priscus). The cave bear and brown bear evolved into two separate species after being descended from a common bear ancestor, the Plio-Pleistocene Etruscan bear (Ursus etruscus) that lived about 5.3 Mya to 100,000 years ago. The divergence date estimate of cave bears and brown bears is about 1.2–1.4 Mya. However, a recent study showed that both species had some hybridization between them after scientists sequenced their Nuclear DNA. It may have weighed between 300 and 1,000 kilograms (660 and 2,200 lb), and was possibly more carnivorous than its modern relatives. The brown bears in Europe today about 80% diet was mostly meat to avoid direct competition from the cave bears who mostly ate plants Though they might eat some plants now and then. This way of niche partitioning helps avoid competition and allows co-existence between the two Bear species."

The last three caves, on the other hand were inhabited by steppe brown bears – whilst in two of the caves, the four adults (two male, two female) were easily coaxed into rushing through the portal by an additional incentive in the form of fresh salmon from the Paleo Park kitchens, with the three cubs in the area eagerly rushing through the portal after the four adults for protection. In the last cave, however, the two adolescent males they had found were strangely nervous about going through the portal – as if they'd been attacked. The two adolescent male bears were mostly brothers, one being light brown with darker underbelly and legs and the other had the same darker underbelly and legs, but was more grayish brown. The two would-be rescuers were at first confused, even going so far as to close the portal so they wouldn't waste its power while they were trying to figure out the reason behind the current difficulty. But then Amanda noticed an unidentified object lying behind the two snarling young adult male bears in the darkness that remained inside the cave, and he pointed his flashlight just enough in that direction to reveal the object to be the body of another adolescent male bear...that was lying ominously still, riddled with open and still visibly bloody wounds, had at least two spears sticking out of its back, and appeared to be lying in a pool of its own dried blood!

Amanda: "My God!"

Jake: "What is it? Oh my, it's a dead bear."

Tino: "I think that dead bear behind them must be their brother. Something bad mustn't happen to them?

Ron: "But what are we gonna do now? They're still riled up?!"

Kim: "I know that's a tough one. Please know I don't feel happy having to do this."

She drew out the backup audio player causing it to play a recording of a grizzly bear's roar.

The two steppe brown bears tensed up, snarling even more viciously than before with their eyes widened and clearly alert at the sudden bear-like roaring. Kim nodded her head, and then played the recording a second time; at which point both bears let out an outraged roar in unison before they both bolted in her and the group's direction, with the larger of the two managing to bump into the smaller one and causing it to briefly stumble to the side and falter in its movement long enough for the larger of the two brothers to gain a decent lead ahead and be the first to come skidding through the portal, with the smaller one following it. With both steppe bears gone to the safety of the future, Ron looked to Kim as she closed the portal once more.

Ron: "Hey, we did it! Way to go, KP!"

Tucker: "I'm guessing we'll be leaving him here?" pointing at the bloodied carcass.

Lisa: "I think so, We could do a post-mortem, but… what's there to find out? However…. we can still find out what happened to him…"

She bent down to one of the wounds on the dead bear's shoulder. Something was sticking out of it - a spearpoint. Removing the bloodied spearpoint, Lisa noticed some details. It was big – so big Lisa could barely hold it in his hand. The next thing he noticed was that it had long, serrated barbs down its side.

Tucker: "Well, what is it, lis?"

Lisa: "It's a barb spear head"

Ed: "The Cave people did this to the bear!"

Lisa: "Yes. But it doesn't belong to the Cro-magnon or Neanderthal."

Thomas: "You're right Lisa. This spear point doesn't match with any known Spear point arrowheads. We're either dealing with some undiscovered artifact or this tool is made by an unknown culture of people or an unknown species of human."

Lisa: "That's what I think it is Mr. Tran." (As she picks up the Communicator.) "Paleo Park to science girl over, We've found a dead steppe bear – who died in a rather… mysterious way. I think Dr. Akio might need to take a look at it."

Thomas: "Before they come I think we should camp out for the night until tomorrow."

The crew decides to sleep in this cave for the night, but they know a dead carcass would soon attract predators.

French Narrator: "As night falls, the prospect of easy meat attracts some more unwanted visitors."

As darkness fell over the taiga, the primordial night was filled with the eerie howls and cackling of the Ice Age predators, drawn by the smell of blood, prowling in the shadows. Needless to say, the haunting nocturnal orchestra was enough to put everyone on edge. Beams of light moved across the edge of the black forest, scanning for any potential threats.

Thomas: "Those sound like hyenas and wolves You see those glowing eyes. Those are Eyeshine in animals; it is produced by a special membrane, called the tapetum lucidum ("tapestry of light"), a reflective surface that is located directly behind the retina. Like the Cave hyenas."

Thomas was using his flashlight to scan the blackness. They presently fell upon the glowing eyes of a spotted figure skulking in the shadows.

Thomas: "You can tell by their yellow eyeshine."

The whooping of the hyenas was joined by a series of spine chilling howls, the voices of gregarious and tenacious predators that will persist long after the era of the mammoth would end.

Thomas: "There's wolves farther away. If they come closer, their eyes will shine green. And the worst predator of all, the human hunters know that the kill is there and we can't see their eyeshine just like us we're not equipped for the darkness of night.

French Narrator: "And humans have no eye shine at all, so they're the hardest to spot."

Soon the predators ran off as something more threatening was coming and the human hunters arrived. We placed torches around the cave and tents along with our flashlights, but it was enough to scare them away.

Leni: "They're scared of us? It's like they have never seen people like us before.

Charlie: "Of course, they don't. You know, future people."

. . . . .

French Narrator: "Back at the park, the head scientist is solving a controversial debate on one of the latest arrivals, the dome head Pachycephalosaurus. These bipedally dinosaurs had dome shaped heads for display and ramming their opponents, but new studies and based on current observation is that they fought by kicking with their legs and wrestling like kangaroos."

The Head Japanese Scientist Akio has come to the holding pens with Travis and Becca Chang. Below them from the catwalk are separate pens housing his subjects, the Pachycephalosaurs. They have divided based on age, juveniles and adults.

Travis: "Explain why you're doing this?"

Akio: "I'm going to solve a debate in the paleontological community which involves these subjects. Thomas stated that Dracorex and Stygimoloch are in fact juvenile life stages of the adult Pachycephalosaurus. But I need to confirm this by taking DNA samples of each of them. If they are three separate species or a single species."

Becca: "The plan is to tranquilize a few of each individual based on age. Take blood and skin samples and analyze and compare them in the lab."

Travis: "That would explain things, but Pachys are quite temperamental, especially that big male Sandor."

Becca: "Don't worry we will be careful from up here."

Soon they and several keepers aimed their tranquilizer guns at a few of the dome headed dinosaurs. When the dart hits them, the pachys rile up and run and ramming into fences or other individuals in the herd before the drug kicks in. Soon once they are knocked out, the rest of the herd are herded to another pen for the staff to check up on the tranquilized individuals without getting rammed by the herd. Soon Geronimo and Phoebe join the crew, as they check their vital signs including eyes, ears, mouth, and heartbeat. The scientists use scissors and small cutting tools to get samples from their skin, salvia, booger, bristle quill, and keratin from the dome head and place in test tubes to be brought back to the lab.