History Characters / PrehistoricPark

* TheKirk: Plenty snarky, though of a more jovial than sassing nature. He is prone to emotional and logical choices in equal measure.

* TeamMom: Especially in one episode where she had to nurse the surviving baby ''Smilodon'' because his mother's milk has ran out.

* TeamMom: Especially in one episode where she had to nurse the baby ''Smilodon'' because his mother's milk has ran out.

* TeamMom: Especially in one episode where she had to nurse the baby ''Smilodon'' because his mother's milk has ran out. [[TearJerker Sadly]], the cub dies despite her best efforts.

* TeamMom: Especially in one episode where she had to nurse the baby ''Smilodon'' because his mother's milk has ran out.

%%* CoolOldGuy

* RaptorAttack: Fossilized melanosomes in the feathers of a ''Microraptor'' fossil suggest it was completely black in color, instead of being largely white like in the show

* HandicappedBadass: ''After'' getting gored in the left thigh by a ''Triceratops'', she manages to hunt and kill an ''Ornithomimus'' (a species of dinosaur that usually runs too fast for even a ''healthy T.rex’’ to catch) to feed to her young, and when a rival male ''T.rex'' attacks Terence and Matilda, the still-injured mother fights the male before he overpowers and kills her.

[[folder:Martha]]
A lone female woolly mammoth Nigel discovered mourning its dead sister (killed by prehistoric human hunters) and seriously injured (by the same hunters). At the park, she is adopted into a herd of modern African elephants.

A large flock of man-sized ostrich-like dinosaurs that prove to adjust quite well to the present, even becoming the first animals to reproduce at the park.

The ''Triceratops'' who Nigel rescued from a ''Tyrannosaurus'' attack. Started out a baby, he grew rather quickly.

* DemotedToExtra: Other than his introduction episode he's had only minor cameos.

The ''Tyrannosaurus'' siblings that Nigel brought back to the park.

* TeensAreMonsters: Taken very literally with Matilda, who is a raging teenage T. rex that tries to attack anyone that crosses her path, including her own brother.

The mammoth Nigel saved from death and managed to lure back to the park.

[[folder:The Terror Bird]]
A giant flightless bird, likely a ''Phorusrhacos'', that Nigel rescues during his first trip to Pleistocene South America.

* EscapeArtist: At the park, it has a habit of managing to get out of its enclosure. You'd think a ten foot tall carnivorous bird would be a problem, but see below.
* FeatheredFiend: Subverted. It is a big and potentially dangerous predator, but its behavior is downright placid once its taken to the park.

[[folder:The Titanosaurs]]
The park's resident sauropods, and a major source of headaches for Bob.

* NoNameGiven: Their species is never stated in series.

[[folder:The Carboniferous Arthropods]]
A ''Pulmonoscorpius'', ''Meganeura'' and ''Arthropleura'' brought back from the Carboniferous and kept in a special, climate-controlled bug house with a high-oxygen atmosphere. They're the most ancient creatures kept within the park.

* BigCreepyCrawlies: A scorpion the size of a cat, a dragonfly with the wingspan of an eagle, and a millipede about two meters long. Notably, the ''Arthropleura'' manages to win the sympathy of the insectophobic Bob simply because it was just that big that it loses its creepy factor.

[[folder:The ''Deinosuchus'']]
The last animal that Nigel intentionally retrieves.

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: It's at least a third larger than the largest known real life specimen, and appears even bigger than that in the scene where it eats a ''Nyctosaurus''.

[[folder:The ''Troodon'']]
A stowaway from the final mission.

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: It's depicted with only a thin feathered coat. The real animals are believed to have had a full covering of complex feathers.
* HungryMenace: How did it get into the park? [[spoiler:It snuck on the jeep to eat the leftover ''Deinosuchus'' bait and was still in it when Nigel returned to the present]].
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:It's the reason the mass breakout in the final episode happens: after stowing away on Nigel's jeep (it was eating the leftover bait meat), it attacks Bob, almost causing him to collide with a titanosaur. The spooked sauropod promptly runs off, smashing open every exhibit it comes by]].

%%* ButtMonkey: Terence is the second biggest Butt Monkey in the series (the other being Bob).%%How?

[[folder: Park Staff]]

!!Nigel Marven

!!Bob

!!Suzanne

!!Saba Douglas-Hamilton

[[folder: Animals]]
!!Theo

!!The ''Ornithomimus'' flock

!!Terence and Matilda

!!Martha

!!The Terror Bird

!!The Titanosaurs

!!The Carboniferous Arthropods

!!The ''Deinosuchus''

!!The ''Troodon''

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: They're significantly more slender as adults than ''Tyrannosaurus'' were in real life, barely changed from ytheir juvenile forms.

* KingOfTheDinosaurs: Matilda by the end definitely represents the menacing aspects of this trope.

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: They're significantly more slender than ''Tyrannosaurus'' were in real life.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: While sauropods are a staple of dinosaur fiction, titanosaurs are rare in media, as they are usually ignored in favor of diplodocoids or brachiosaurs.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: ''Troodon'' is usally ignored in media in favor of other, more well known raptors.

* ScienceMarchesOn: Beginning in 2011, about five years after the series aired, ''Troodon'' was found to be an artificial melding of several distinct genuses and split into a number of new taxa -- and, due to the genus' convoluted discovery history, the only "true" ''Troodon'' remains left were a pair of teeth, leading to most paleontologists no longer considering it a valid genus. The dinosaur seen here would most likely be considered ''Stenonychosaurus'' today.

* DemotedToExtra: Terence, as the series went on. Watch all the episodes (except for Episode 5) and you'll see that it is Matilda who plays the bigger role.

!! The Titanosaurs

!!The ''Troodon''
A stowaway from the final mission.

* FeatheredFiend: [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology Only has a thin coat, though.]]

A stowaway from the final mission. [[spoiler:He causes the mass breakout]].

* NoNameGiven: Their species is never stated in series. {{Fanon}} is that they are either ''Borealosaurus'' or ''Daxiatitan''.
** An alternative, given recent discoveries, is that they could be ''Dongbeititan''.

* TheMillstone: Due to simply [[PrecisionFStrike not-giving-a-damn]] about anyone other than themselves, they frequently cause trouble for the park.