History Fanfic / PrehistoricParkReturnedFromExtinction

* ImprobableTaxonomySkills: The end-of-chapter notes tend to include the genus and species name of each creature rescued, something that is usually rather rare, even in the source material and other Prehistoric Park fanfiction. Some chapters include this simply for the sake of keeping things clear to the readers -- the mission to rescue dinosaurs from Jurassic North America explicitly lists [[spoiler:Big Al]] as an ''Allosaurus fragilus''. ''That'' example, though, was also because all ''Allosaurus'' species from that time and location were rescued (for reference, North America has five different species of ''Allosaurus'' -- ''A. fragilus'', ''A. lucasi'', ''A. jimmadseni'', ''A. atrox'', and ''A. amplus''.

* AlwaysABiggerFish: A frequent occurrence in the story, where a predator or other creature that is proving to be an obstacle/danger for Nigel and his team is quickly confronted with a larger, more dangerous creature. Nigel often exploits this to rescue both creatures. It happens enough that it gets a LampshadeHanging in "Rise of the Mammals".

* BearsAreBadNews: Two varieties of short-faced bear -- a South American species under the genus ''Arctotherium'' and the more well known ''Arctodus simus'' -- appear in the story. The ''Arcotherium'' was rescued in ''Saving the Sabertooth'' via a {{Retcon}} (the author has said he will write in the scene, [[ScheduleSlip but it's been a few years and that still hasn't happened]]), whilst the ''Arctodus'' was encountered in ''The Last Supper'' when it fell thoruhg the portal whilst fighting a ground sloth, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments after which both were unceremoniously tranquilized by the staff.]]
** The cave bear from the original series also shows up, and this time around it's rescued.

* CanisMajor: ''Epicyon'', the largest species of dog to ever live, was rescued in ''The Great American Safari''. Dire wolves show up in ''The Last Supper''.

* FeatheredFiend: Most of the theropod dinosaurs, including all of the park's birds. For a specific example, the ''Bathornis''. Later joined by the giant teatorns.

* HemisphereBias: Most of the chapters focus on animals from North America. Granted, there are a ''huge'' number of well known fossil sites from North America (including Hell Creek, the La Brea Tar Pits, and the Texas Red Beds, among others), but it is still a rather obvious bias.
* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: To test the effects of the time portal, people were sent back to -- among other things -- remove infamous dictators from power. When they came back to the present, nothing changed, confirming that the portal doesn't affect their timeline. Instead, it creates alternate timelines/universes. Because of this, the Park can potentially rescue extinct animals, [[spoiler:even famous individuals like Big Al]], without the risk of causing a paradox or otherwise damaging the time stream.
* HonorableElephant: Besides Martha the Mammoth, the park also plays host to a herd of ''Zygolophodon'' (a type of mastodon) as well as several gomphotheres. Chapter 30 sees the American Mastodon and Columbian Mammoth join the park's residents.
* LastOfHisKind: Of all the animals in the park, only Martha, the Elasmotherium, and Finn fulfil this role, as every other prehistoric species in the park had at least a breeding pair rescued. Later, they are joined by the ice Age Jaguar.
* TheMarvelousDeer: ''Megaloceros''.

* RhinoRampage. As with the original show, ''Elasmotherium'', but the fanfic also contains the more well-known wooly rhino ''Coelodonta'' and the obscure North American rhinoceros genera ''Teloceras'', ''Menoceras'', and ''Aphelops''.
* RunningGag: In ''Time of the Titans'', whenver an animal falls over, it will usually be trampled by several smaller animals. This happens to a ''Torvosaurus'' and a ''Saurophaganax''. The only predator to avert this is a ''Ceratosaurus''.
** Note that both of the trampled animals ''survived'' being trampled by other creatures. The ''Saurophaganax', in particular, only comes out of being stepped on by a ''Stegosaurus'' and a ''Ceratosaurus'' with a few broken ribs.

* SeaMonster: Besides sharks, the park is home to mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, giant nautiloids, giant ichthyosaurs, eurypterids, and eugenodonts. And more are on the way....
** The author has also included a completely speculative species of filter-feeding pliosaur at the park. [[FanDumb He would appreciate it if people remember that they are completely fictional and stop mentioning it in the reviews.]]
** Granted, [[DownplayedTrope these animals are not portrayed as monsters, but merely normal animals]].

** Vera and Marcus' MushroomSamba in ''Double Crested Lizard'' appears to be based on Evan Cross' from ''Series/PrimevalNewWorld'', including its cause - [[spoiler:being sneezed on by a ''Pachycephalosaurus'' that consumed hallucinogenic materials]].

* SwissCheeseSecurity: The park's security teams seem to be rather inept, seeing how they completely fail to notice [[spoiler:that Terence and Matilda have escaped their exhibits '''multiple times''']]. Per WordOfGod, this is because they are regularly trying to deal with the smaller animals of the park, who tend to escape their exhibits with annoying regularity. [[spoiler:They finally catch onto the fences being broken in Chapter 22, and immediately set to work repairing them]].
** That being said, they ''do'' tend to place a bit of thought into the enclosures and what goes in them - the tyrannosaur exhibit, at the very least, has a moat around it, in addition to the obvious fencing. Then again, nobody knew that tyrannosaurs could swim.

* ThreateningShark: The park is home to several prehistoric sharks. Additionally, Nigel also rescued a ''Stethecanthus'' and the juvenile ''Megalodon'' from Sea Monsters prior to the start of the story. The park is also home to several shark relatives, such as the eugenodont ''Edestus''. {{Downplayed}}, though, in that the sharks aren't portrayed in an overly menacing manner and even get P.O.V. segments all to themselves.

-->''More interesting to Tristan, though, was [[spoiler:the large swollen spot on the dinosaur's middle toe on its right foot]]...''

-->'''[[spoiler:[[UnexpectedCharacter Passenger Pigeon:]]]] 20 individuals'''

* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife:
** In Zhao's chapter, she meets a ''Richardoestesia'', a very poorly known species of theropod, that is purple and yellow.

* HumansThroughAlienEyes: Humans are frequently noted to be odd in many of the animal [=POVs=], leaving many of the animals unsure about how they should act toward them.
** This can also be extended to any other prehistoric creature that appears in each chapter, as creatures we can recognize are completely alien to the temporally displaced residents of the park.

* XenoFiction: The animals aren't humanized at all in this story, and it shows.
** A big result of this is that we get to see how strange many modern animals are to extinct ones. This is especially true in the case of Ben, because as an arthropod from the Carboniferous, the only vertebrates he would have seen were (essentially) lizards and amphibians, yet now he is seeing some creatures that are bigger than he is.

* ShoutOut: At one point, a [[Film/DragonsAFantasyMadeReal Dr. Ian Tanner]] is mentioned, having apparently published his claims about dragons. [[spoiler:This is {{Foreshadowing}} for the appearance of dragons in ''Dinosaurs from the East'']].

** An interesting one -- during "The Tale of the Sail", the team goes back to rescue ''Dimetrodon'', [[spoiler:and literally encounters one the minute they step out of the portal, along with a small group of ''Edaphosaurus''. They only need a few minutes to bait it into the portal]]. {{Downplayed}}, though, because there are still plenty of other creatures they still need to rescue. Additioanlly, they still need to rescue more ''Dimetrodon'' in order to estabolish a breeding colony]].

* BigCreepyCrawlies: In addition to the Carboniferous arthropods rescued in the original series, the park is also home to several types of eurypterids, including the earliest known species, ''Pentecopterus''. Chapter 27 sees the rescue of ''Websteroprion'', an animal from the Devonian period that was essentially a giant [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_aphroditois Bobbit worm]]. And while it isn't the focus animal, Chapter 31 has the team save a group of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeodictyoptera palaeodictyopterans].

* DivergentCharacterEvolution: In-universe example with the park's ''Allosaurus'', and applied on a species level -- since the park rescued multiple species of ''Allosaurus'' ([[ScienceMarchesOn some of which are now defunct]]), they're able to observe the unique nuances that differ between each species in both appearance and behavior. The more common ''Allosaurus fragilis'', for example, really live up to their epithet of being [[KingOfBeasts the Lion of the Jurassic]], being the FantasticFaunaCounterpart to lions (including apparently living in prides). ''A. jimmadseni'', meanwhile (the one that Big Al and Alicia belong to) are monogamous and live in mated pairs, though it isn't specified if this is serial monogamy (pairs seek out different partners each season) or a more devoted relationship. Finally, ''A. lucasi'' is solitary except during mating season.

* SmallTaxonomyPools: [[{{Averted}} Completely and utterly nuked.]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeodictyopteroidea Paleodictyopteroids?]] ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmostylidae Desmostylids?]]'' '''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piatnitzkysauridae Piatnitzkysaurs???]]''' Who the hell has heard of these creatures?

* StockDinosaurs: Too many to count. [[ZigZaggedTrope However, many more obscure genera are featured as well.]]

* GrandUnifiedTimeline/TheFarFuture: [[spoiler: ''The City of Cactus'' takes place about seven million years in the future, and environmentally takes cues from ''Series/TheFutureIsWild'' (a new Ice Age has happened, and North America has undergone mass desertification]].

* TurtlePower: The park is home to prehistoric turtles, including the titanic ''Hesperotestudo''. Among its marine residents is the Cretaceous sea turtle ''Desmatochelys''.
** The park is also home to modern turtles, including alligator snapping turtles. One wild snapping turtle ends up being eaten by Terence.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: One of the chapters features a staff member interacting with a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drepanosaur drepanosaur]], which even in the main story are barely given an acknowledgement (seeing how they are roughly the size of an average lizard).

* BigCreepyCrawlies: In addition to the Carboniferous arthropods rescued in the original series, the park is also home to several types of eurypterids, including the earliest known species, ''Pentecopterus''. Chapter 27 sees the rescue of ''Websteroprion'', an animal from the Devonian period that was essentially a giant [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_aphroditois Bobbit worm]]. And while it isn't the focus animal, Chapter 31 has the team save a group of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeodictyoptera palaeodictyopterans]] [[SeldomSeenSpecies who, prior to this story, have only appeared in ]]''VideoGame/Mandibles2017''.

** And that's not including all the land living crocodilians ([[SeldomSeenSpecies such as ''Diplosaurus'', ''Fruitachampsa'', and ''Carnufex'']]) and crocodilian relatives ([[SeldomSeenSpecies such as ''Smilosuchus'', ''Postosuchus'', and ''Vivaron'']]) that have also been rescued.

* ScaryStingingSwarm: A horde of bees ends up chasing Tristan, Pamela, and a ''Sinocalliopteryx'' in the first segment of ''Sea Lions, Seals, and Walruses, Oh My!'' Instead of Honey Bees, though, [[SeldomSeenSpecies they're actually members of the genus]] ''[[SeldomSeenSpecies Melipona]]'', a type of [[{{Irony}} stingless bee]]. They ''do'' '''bite''', though. They weren't initially interested in the humans or the dinosaur, but the compsognathid ended up tackling Pamela, who collided with Tristan, who then hit the hive.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Too many to count. [[JustifiedTrope The author prefers to go with obscure species, because many of them are very interesting in their own right.]]
** Amongst modern examples, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingless_bee Stingless Bees]] show up in one chapter, where they are used to pollinate several prehistoric flowers.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Many examples, that work both for and against our protagonists:
** More often than not, when a predator attacks, '''there is no warning'''. Fortunately...
** The vast majority of large predatory dinosaurs in the series tend to ignore the park's staff in favor of larger prey. Predators in general prefer to hunt animals they are familiar with, as they know both the defenses of these animals and how much food an individual of this species will provide on average.
** The ''Acrocanthosaurus'' Finn, who happens to be hungry enough to defy the above mentioned rule and attempt to attack a human, collapses from hunger the minute he tries to do so. If a multi-ton predator is hungry enough to consider attacking a relatively small human, it's unlikely its going to be very healthy to begin with.
** Additionally, when Vera attempts to tame Finn, it isn't a quick process where the two rapidly bond together - the former needs to spend quite a bit of time nursing the giant carnivore back to health before he is willing to even let her touch him.
** The sheer number of creatures rescued in just about every episode is implied to be very taxing on the keepers, who end up missing a few of the residents when they check for new arrivals. Case in point, several ''Didelphodon'' and ''Westlethonia'' go unnoticed for several chapters until they do something to expose themselves.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: [[UpToEleven Too many to count.]] [[JustifiedTrope The author prefers to go with obscure species, because many of them are very interesting in their own right.]]

* StockDinosaurs: [[UpToEleven Too many to count.]] [[ZigZaggedTrope However, many more obscure genera are featured as well.]]

* GrandUnifiedTimeline/TheFarFuture: [[spoiler: ''The City of Cactus'' takes place about seven million years in the future, and environmentally takes cues from ''Series/TheFutureIsWild'' (a new Ice Age has happened, and North Americana has undergone mass desertification]].

* BigCreepyCrawlies: In addition to the Carboniferous arthropods rescued in the original series, the park is also home to several types of eurypterids, including the earliest known species, ''Pentecopterus''. Chapter 27 sees the rescue of ''Websteroprion'', an animal from the Devonian period that was essentially a giant [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_aphroditois Bobbit worm]]. And while it isn't the focus animal, Chapter 31 has the team save a group of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeodictyoptera palaeodictyopterans]] [[SeldomSeenSpecies who, prior to this story, have only appeared in ]]''VideoGame/{{Mandibles}}''.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Besides the human cast, there are also plenty of animals that get focus segments in the series.