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* SmallTaxonomicPools: [[{{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?

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* SmallTaxonomicPools: 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?
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* SmallTaxonomicPools: [[{{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?

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* MythologyGag:
** The final episode of ''Series/SeaMonsters'' referred to the Most Dangerous Sea of All Time (The Western Interior Seaway) as ''Hell's Aquarium''. The name of the chapter in this story where Nigel goes to rescue the creatures of that sea is titled ''Return to Hell's Aquarium''.
** When [[spoiler:Big Al]] find evidence of a female in his territory, he initially feels amorous, before instantly growing cautious, wit the story noting his previous experiences with the opposite sex were responsible for more than few injuries. In ''[[spoiler:The Ballad of Big Al]]'', his impulsiveness in attempting to charm a female resulted in him almost getting torn apart, resulting in multiple broken ribs and an arm injury.



* TurtlePower: The park is home to prehistoric turtles, including the titanic ''Heserotestudo''. Among its marine residents is the Cretaceous sea turtle ''Desmatochelys''.

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* TurtlePower: The park is home to prehistoric turtles, including the titanic ''Heserotestudo''.''Hesperotestudo''. Among its marine residents is the Cretaceous sea turtle ''Desmatochelys''.
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** 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.


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* ToiletHumour: There's been a few scenes where the park has had some of the staff clean through the droppings of residents in order to retrieve prehistoric insects that were...well, [[{{Squick}} eating the animal waste.]]
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: While Suzanne and Bob are busy cleaning out sauropod dung in order to gather prehistoric maggots using it as lunch, a confused ''Haplocanthosaurus'' watches on, before proceeding to inflict a GroinAttack on an approaching ''Stegosaurus''. A security team watching this [[ShareTheMalePain cannot help but wince,]] regardless of gender.

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* GroinAttack: ''Tale of the Sail 4'' has an implied one with a ''Haplocanthosaurus'' and a male ''Stegosaurus''. The injury isn't specified, but the reactions of a security team make it rather obvious what happened.



** The park has a botanist named [[ComicBook/PoisonIvy Pamela]]. WordOfGod has confirmed this was intentional, but only after a rewrite.



** The park has a botanist named [[ComicBook/PoisonIvy Pamela]]. WordOfGod has confirmed this was intentional, but only after a rewrite.


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** One Mega-Chapter is called ''The Tale of the Sail'', a name shared with an episode of ''Series/{{Paleoworld}}''. Both focus on permian synapsids from North America.
** The scene involving a ''Haplocathosaurus'' and a ''Stegosaurus'' in ''The Tale of the Sail'' are clearly based on an image from ''Literature/AllYesterdays''.
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Turns out there was a paleodictyopteran in Mandibles. Oops


* 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,]] [[UpToEleven have never been portrayed in fiction before.]]

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* 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,]] [[UpToEleven story, have never been portrayed only appeared in fiction before.]]]]''VideoGame/{{Mandibles}}''.
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** As of the end of ''New Blood'', the female ''Postosuchus'' and the baby cynodonts can be added to this list as well.
** ''Time of the Titans sees the saving of [[spoiler:Big Al]].
** '''EVERYONE''' from ''Death of A Dynasty''.
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* MegaCrossover: In addition to be an explicitly stated crossover between ''Series/PrehistoricPark'' and ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs'', its also one with ''WesternAnimation/WhenDinosaursRoamedAmerica'', ''[[spoiler:Film/DragonsAFantasyMadeReal]]'', ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/AgeOfReptiles]]'', and ''[[spoiler:Film/JurassicPark]]''.

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* MegaCrossover: In addition to be an explicitly stated crossover between ''Series/PrehistoricPark'' and ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs'', its also one with ''WesternAnimation/WhenDinosaursRoamedAmerica'', ''[[spoiler:Series/{{Primeval}}]]'', ''[[spoiler:Film/DragonsAFantasyMadeReal]]'', ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/AgeOfReptiles]]'', and ''[[spoiler:Film/JurassicPark]]''.
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* BearsAreBadNews: Two varieties of Short Faced Bear - a South American species under the genus ''Arctotherium'' and the more well known ''Arctodus simus'', have appeared 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 ''Arctodous'' was encountered in ''The LastSupper'' when it fell thoruhg the portal whilst fighting a ground sloth, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments after which both were unceremoniously tranquilized by the staff.]]

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* BearsAreBadNews: Two varieties of Short Faced Bear - a South American species under the genus ''Arctotherium'' and the more well known ''Arctodus simus'', have appeared 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 ''Arctodous'' was encountered in ''The LastSupper'' Last Supper'' when it fell thoruhg the portal whilst fighting a ground sloth, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments after which both were unceremoniously tranquilized by the staff.]]
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* BearsAreBadNews: Two varieties of Short Faced Bear - a South AMerican species under the genus ''Arctotherium'' and the more well known ''Arctodus simus'', have appeared 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 ''Arctodous'' was encountered in ''The LastSupper'' when it fell thoruhg the portal whilst fighting a ground sloth, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments after which both were unceremoniously tranquilized by the staff.]]

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* BearsAreBadNews: Two varieties of Short Faced Bear - a South AMerican American species under the genus ''Arctotherium'' and the more well known ''Arctodus simus'', have appeared 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 ''Arctodous'' was encountered in ''The LastSupper'' when it fell thoruhg the portal whilst fighting a ground sloth, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments after which both were unceremoniously tranquilized by the staff.]]



* 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]] [[SeldomSceneSpecies who, prior to this story,]] [[UpToEleven have never been portrayed in fiction before.]]

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* 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]] [[SeldomSceneSpecies [[SeldomSeenSpecies who, prior to this story,]] [[UpToEleven have never been portrayed in fiction before.]]
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* 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]].

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* 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]] [[SeldomSceneSpecies who, prior to this story,]] [[UpToEleven have never been portrayed in fiction before.]]
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* Anticlimax: 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.

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* Anticlimax: {{Anticlimax}}: 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.

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* Anticlimax: 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.
* BearsAreBadNews: Two varieties of Short Faced Bear - a South AMerican species under the genus ''Arctotherium'' and the more well known ''Arctodus simus'', have appeared 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 ''Arctodous'' was encountered in ''The LastSupper'' 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 showed up, and this time around, it was rescued.



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

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* 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.
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-->'''[[UnexpectedCharacter Passenger Pigeon:]] 20 individuals'''

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

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* WhamLine: Chapter 177 has this bit of description regarding an injured ''Allosaurus'' Tristan encounters:

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Chapter 177 has this bit of description regarding an injured ''Allosaurus'' Tristan encounters:


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** Additionally, there's this gem from the rescue list for ''The Last Supper'':
-->'''[[UnexpectedCharacter Passenger Pigeon:]] 20 individuals'''
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* HonorableElephant: Besides Martha the Mammoth, the park also plays host to a herd of ''Zygolophodon'' (a type of mastodon) as well as several gomphotheres.
* 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.

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* HonorableElephant: Besides Martha the Mammoth, the park also plays host to a herd of ''Zygolophodon'' (a type of mastodon) as well as several gomphotheres.
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.
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* OhCrap: In Chapter 30, Part 5, the away team has this reaction when [[spoiler:they realize that the "pond" a group of animals is running towards is actually a tar pit]].
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* MeanwhileInTheFuture: The focus will sometimes shift back to the park during a mission.

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I'll go to other continents once I'm satisified with what I've rescued from North America.


* 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''.



* HemisphereBias: Most of the chapters focus on animals from North America.

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* 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.



** There's also a bunch of smaller prehistoric crocodilians running around the park, such as ''Brachychampsa'', ''Borealosuchus''. and ''Thoracosaurus''.

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** There's also a bunch of smaller prehistoric crocodilians running around the park, such as ''Brachychampsa'', ''Borealosuchus''. ''Borealosuchus'', ''Gaviolosuchus'', and ''Thoracosaurus''.



* PantheraAwesome: Besides ''Smilodon'', the park also has several other species of feliforms, ranging from other machairodonts (''Machairodus'') to close relatives (''Barbourfelis'').

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* PantheraAwesome: Besides ''Smilodon'', the park also has several other species of feliforms, ranging from other machairodonts (''Machairodus'') to close relatives (''Barbourfelis''). The American Cheetah, ''Miracinonyx'', is rescued in ''The Last Supper''.
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* BeyondTheImpossible: The team actually manages to rescue the dinosaurs from ''[[spoiler:Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom]]'', despite the fact that [[spoiler:said film is explicitly stated InUniverse to be fictional]].


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* BrickJoke: In the fourth segment of ''Rise of the Mammals'', Alice suggests that the time portal could be used to rescue [[spoiler:dinosaurs from movies like ''Film/JurassicPark'']], since the group already rescued as [[spoiler:[[Film/DragonsAFantasyMadeReal prehistoric dragon]]]]. While this is more or less treated as a joke InUniverse, [[spoiler:this actually happens in the fourth part of ''Time of the Titans'']].
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* MegaCrossover: In addition to be an explicitly stated crossover between ''Series/PrehistoricPark'' and ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs'', its also one with ''WesternAnimation/WhenDinosaursRoamedAmerica'', ''[[spoiler:Film/DragonsAFantasyMadeReal]]'', ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/AgeOfReptiles]]'', and ''[[spoiler:Film/JurassicPark]]''.

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* 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''.

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* 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.
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* ShoutOut: At one point, a [[Film/DragonsAFantasyMadeReal Dr. Ian Tanner]] is mentioned, having apparently published his claims about dragons.

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* 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'']].
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** During one scene in ''Time of the Titans'', [[Series/WhenDinosaursRoamedAmerica a Ceratosaurus chases after a trio of Dryosaurus]], [[ButtMonkey only to be immediately knocked out by BigAl.]]

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** During one scene in ''Time of the Titans'', [[Series/WhenDinosaursRoamedAmerica [[WesternAnimation/WhenDinosaursRoamedAmerica a Ceratosaurus chases after a trio of Dryosaurus]], [[ButtMonkey only to be immediately knocked out by BigAl.]]
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* 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''.


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** During one scene in ''Time of the Titans'', [[Series/WhenDinosaursRoamedAmerica a Ceratosaurus chases after a trio of Dryosaurus]], [[ButtMonkey only to be immediately knocked out by BigAl.]]

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* 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.

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* 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.


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* WhamLine: Chapter 177 has this bit of description regarding an injured ''Allosaurus'' Tristan encounters:
-->''More interesting to Tristan, though, was [[spoiler:the large swollen spot on the dinosaur's middle toe on its right foot]]...''

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* AdaptationExpansion: The story has an explanation for how the time portal was created, though it hasn't been elaborated on that much.

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The story has an explanation for how the time portal was created, though it hasn't been elaborated on that much.much. [[spoiler:It's implied to have something to do with [[Series/{{Primeval}} anomalies]]]].
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* 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 Bobbin worm]].

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* 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 Bobbin Bobbit worm]].
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* 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''.

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* 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 Bobbin worm]].

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