A few days later, the Wild Kratts Tortuga was at a clearing of a forest in North Carolina, in the Albemarle Peninsula. Chris and Martin mentioned that there was a rare species of wild dog that lives in the forest.

And that this forest has one of the only remaining ones left.

At the moment, Chris and Martin were hiking through the forest looking for them.

"They gotta be here somewhere." Martin said.

"Yeah, those footprints we've seen must lead here." Chris said.

Then Martin's Creaturepod beeped as a holographic screen appeared with Koki.

"Do you guys mind telling us what you're looking for?" Koki asked.

"It's a rare species of wild dog." Martin said. " And extremely rare."

"And the North Carolinian Albemarle Peninsula has some of the last surviving populations of them." Chris added.

"What are they?" Aviva asked, leaning into view along with Amber, Tyrana and Skylie.

"Hey, wait." Martin said. "I think I see something. So hold that though for a moment."

Chris and Martin got down, and less than a hundred yards from them was a small clearing, with some rocks.

"Looks promising." Chris said. "This could be it."

"Chris, what is it?" Aviva asked. "I don't see anything."

"This area does look like a den site that wolves would use." Chris said.

"Wolves?" Koki frowned. "Come on, guys. Wolves don't live in the Southeast region of the United States. We have to be further west to see Gray Wolves."

"Actually, there is a wolf here." Martin said.

"In fact, this is probably the rarest wolf in North America." Martin said.

"Wait, there's movement." Chris said.

They turned to the rocks, and inside a small cave, the familiar head of a wolf pokes out as it then walks out completely.

"A Red Wolf." Chris and Martin said in awe unison.

Aviva, Koki and Jimmy looked at the Red Wolf on the screen in total amazement as well as Amber, Tyrana, Skylie, Bumpo, Hornster and Grubby.

"Wow." Aviva said breathlessly.

"I didn't even know a wolf like that exists." Koki said.

"Yeah, these wolves are very endangered." Chris said. "Fewer than 120 left in the world."

The Red Wolf is a canine native to the Southeastern region of the United States, having a reddish-tawny color to its fur color. Morphologically it is intermediate between the Coyote and Gray Wolf, and is very closely related to the Eastern Wolf of Eastern Canada.

Then suddenly, they were in for a special surprise when an entire pack arrived. 2 adults had 2 raccoons, and placed them down as then 5 Red Wolf pups came out of the den.

"Whoa, there's wolf pups." Martin said.

"Ooh, they are so cute." Aviva said.

"They can't be more than 6 weeks old." Chris said.

"And every pup and Red Wolf is precious for their survival." Chris said.

"Yeah, habitat loss and many other reasons are driving the Red Wolf close to extinction." Martin sadly said.

Then a Flycam appeared with a magnetic tracker.

"Maybe the tracker can help us find new ways to protect them." Aviva said.

"Great idea, Aviva." Martin said.

The Flycam then flew over to the pack as they were eating. And the Flycam went over to the alpha male, and placed the tag on his ear.

"Tracker is on." Chris announced.

3 days later, the Tortuga was in Lock-Down Mode as a massive storm blows over in the start of a hurricane.

Wind and rain this strong would force every animal to find shelter.

Everyone inside was doing their own thing, Aviva working at her station with Skylie, Koki checking on the status of the hurricane, Jimmy playing a video game with Bumpo, Hornster and Grubby, while Martin and Chris were playing with Amber and Tyrana as Martin had a laser light moving it around as Amber and Tyrana chased the red dot. They recently found that Amber and Tyrana at their age have the reflects of a house cat.

Even at 1 time, they shined the red dot on the wall and Amber would leap after it and jump 2 feet off the floor, while Tyrana could only a third that height.

Then suddenly, the lights went out, making Jimmy jump with a fright, and startling Bumpo, Hornster and Grubby a little.

"And there goes our power." Koki said.

"Hang on, I've got a flashlight around here somewhere." Aviva said blindly, feeling around her station. "Flashlight, flashlight..."

"OW! That was my foot!" Koki said.

"Sorry." Jimmy apologized.

A few minutes later, they managed to place a few lanterns on the table as they were turned on.

"Must be that the power generators need rebooting." Koki said. "But that'll take a few hours."

"No problem." Aviva said. "That's why we have these lanterns, anyway."

"Good thing we had our night vision goggles close by." Chris said with his on as well as Martin's.

"Hey, it looks like Amber, too, has her night vision too." Martin said.

"And so does Tyrana." Chris said

Close by, Amber and Tyrana were wandering around the room as if they could see perfectly. And when they got near Koki's station, they then sniff the chair and walk in a different direction.

"Hmm." Chris pondered and brought out his Creaturepod.

He then scans Amber, and then Tyrana, and soon the results came in, and showed a close-up on their eyes.

"Okay, let's see." Chris said. "Ooh, nice binocular long-range vision. Forward-facing eyes, and look at that. They can see just as well as cats at night. Big cats can see 6 times better than we can at night."

"And they're just as sharp as some Birds of Prey." Martin added.

Tyrannosaurs and Raptors, like all theropod dinosaurs, have much larger eyes than those of any other type of species of dinosaur, which gives them superb, low-light/night vision.

"Wait a second." Koki noticed something. "The results also say that there's traces of Eagle DNA for Amber's vision. And traces of Lion DNA for Tyrana's vision."

"Eagle and Lion DNA?" Jimmy frowned. "But, they're each a dinosaur. Not an eagle. Or a lion."

"Maybe not 100% pure dinosaur." Koki said.

"Oh. You're right." Martin said, remembering something. "Amber, Tyrana, Skylie, Bumpo, Hornster and Grubby are all actually not 100% pure in dinosaur."

"What do you mean?" Jimmy asked.

"Remember from one of our previous visits to Jurassic World?" Aviva inquired. "On our tour, Henry Wu said that when Jurassic Park was in production, geneticists used Frog DNA to fill in the missing gaps of the genetic code."

"Ohhhh, so if the genetic code was 100% pure, they would've looked completely different." Jimmy said getting the point.

"Exactly." Martin said. "So, even though they all do have some of their DNA, some missing gaps were filled in with the genes of other animals."

"Who knows what the dinosaurs would look like if their genetic code was pure." Chris said. "It's all part of restoring their DNA."

"I've always wondered, what do they always mean by "DNA"?" Jimmy asked.

"DNA is the biological code that gives every animal their special features." Aviva explained showing her tablet of a human and a dolphin and their DNA strand. "Every type of animal has their own DNA code hidden within every cell of their body. The building blocks of life. And it made Jurassic World possible."

"It's what makes us, us." Chris said. "And dinosaurs, dinosaurs. Like Amber, Tyrana, Skylie, Bumpo, Hornster, and Grubby, here."

"Yeah. I mean, who knows what other traits and genes from other animals they have." Martin said.

Koki then yawned. "Well. I don't know about you. But I'm gonna get some sleep now."

"Looks like Jimmy is already out." Aviva said.

Jimmy was in his chair at his station already asleep.

Amber then let out a yawn-like growl and then heads over to her bed and curls up and lowered her head and went to sleep.

And Tyrana, Skylie, Bumpo, Hornster and Grubby followed her in suite as they each let out a yawn-like growl or sound of their own and went over to their own beds and layed down in them and went to sleep.

Before long, they all went to sleep.

Author's Note:

I've just recently seen all the new Wild Kratts episodes and movie special, Our Blue and Green World, No Name Dream, Backpack the Camel and A Fish out of Water.

Now, as a reminder, Like Bvega42's story, this story takes place 3 years before the events of Jurassic World. Starting in 2012, which is when there were over 100 Red Wolves then.

Red Wolves are so rare, they really need constant human protection, if their numbers are to grow back and repopulate again. And the Wild Kratts should do an episode on them eventually, sooner or later.