Line #80 FanFic/PrehistoricEarth


1	''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12068276/1/Prehistoric-Earth Prehistoric Earth]]'' is a fanfiction by Drew Luczynski and Nathanoraptor, which serves as a crossover between the ''Series/PrehistoricPark'' and ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs'' franchises.
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3	The basic premise is simple: Zoologist and adventurer Drew [[TimeTravel travels back in time]] to [[BringItBackAlive bring back]] various creatures from prehistoric eras, whom he and his team then place in the titular park. But mostly it's about lonely nobodies hanging around and pretending they have friends. While episodic in nature, the story does have an overarching plot, as the issues of many animals took several episodes to resolve. And several personal issues and arcs that several major characters had to deal with also took multiple episodes to be resolved.
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5	Although the story is written as if it tells the story of a real park, it contains many obviously sci-fi inspired elements, such as the mysterious time portal, the workings of which are never explained.
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7	As of April 12, 2020, the story is finally complete...and as of April 13, 2020, it has been given a full-on reboot in the form of ''Fanfic/PrehistoricParkReimagined''.
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9	!! The work provides examples of:
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11	* AbortedArc: Several appeared over the course of the story.
12	** Nikolai was originally intended by Drew (the writer) to be the butt of a running gag in which Kyle constantly refers to him by the nickname 'Koli', which would have constantly annoyed Nikolai.
13	** Nikolai and Kyle were also initially planned by Nathanoraptor to have a rivalry between them during the earlier missions of the story, and this same planned arc even received a small degree of setup before behind the scenes strife caused it to never see the light of day.
14	** Adrian and Alice were initially planned at first to have a small romance between them. This idea was later changed to an intent for Adrian to just have a one-sided crush on Alice. And then any plans of romance between Alice and Adrian in any capacity (even a one-sided capacity) were scrapped altogether.
15	** The dynamic hinted at between Jack and Nikolai at the end of ''Alien Empire'' was initially intended to be extended upon in further chapters, complete with Nikolai himself playing a prominent role in Jack and Colette's mutual arcs later in the story.
16	** In fact, quite a large number of plans for various characters intended to play prominent roles ended up scrapped as a result of behind the scenes strife that occurred.
17	* ActionGirl: Alice, Collete, and Cynthia.
18	* ActorAllusion: The fancasts lead to several.
19	** This wouldn't be the first time Scarlett Johansson has played a NiceGirl who works [[Film/WeBoughtAZoo at a zoo]].
20	** Collete has had [[Film/PansLabyrinth previous experience]] with giant amphibians.
21	** Considering [[Creator/TomHolland Leon's]] [[ComicBook/SpiderMan alter-ego]] in the MCU, it's somewhat amusing to see him act unnerved around [[SpidersAreScary arachnids]].
22	** If [[WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}} Captain Bogo]] were a human and the head keeper of a zoo as opposed to the captain of a police force, a similar situation were the case for [[Series/{{Luther}} John Luther]], or if [[Film/{{Thor}} Heimdall]] were an ordinary human in similar conditions, you'd get Kyle Taymor.
23	** This is also not the first time Yolanda has had experience with something [[Film/TheLastAirbender water-related]]. Nor is it the first time she's had experience with [[Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction dinosaurs]] (although this time they're not robotic).
24	** Nor is this the first time Drew [[Series/StrangerThings has worked with a team to handle mysterious and strange creatures.]]
25	** From a certain point of view, [[Creator/DaisyRidley Alice]] was a very appropriate choice of partner for Drew to have with him during the gorgonops mission. Alice even lampshades this by naming the rescued juvenile Gorgonops [[Film/TheForceAwakens Rey]].
26	** And for that matter, this is also not the first time that [[Creator/AlexPettyfer Will]] has found himself playing the role of a [[Literature/AlexRider reluctant spy]].
27	** And while we're at it, this is also not the [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb first time]] that [[Creator/ThomasBrodieSangster Jack]] has traveled back in time.
28	** And finally, this is not remotely the [[Series/TheGoodDoctor only time]] that [[Creator/FionaGubelmann Cynthia]] has acted like the [[AlphaBitch resident bitch]] of a team and had a low opinion of the resident autistic member of said team.
29	* AdaptationalNameChange: Half-Tooth is named Broken Fang in this continuity.
30	* AdaptedOut: Original Prehistoric Park series mainstays Nigel, Bob, and Suzanne are nowhere to be found in this story.
31	* AlwaysABiggerFish:
32	** The huge eurypterid Pterygotus killing the alleged Big Bad of the episode, Brontoscorpio. Nikolai even [[SummonBiggerFish exploits this]] in the final act of "The First Steps"; releasing the female Pterygotus into the Brontoscorpio tank to scare them off.
33	** Later played for drama in "Life in Transition" when Drew becomes aware of a Dunkleosteus's presence after he sees it chomp on and kill a shark before turning its attention towards him.
34	** As big as most t-rex are, Sharptooth absolutely dwarfs them.
35	* AmicableExes: Unlike [[MasculineGirlFeminineBoy Jack and Collete]] and [[SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl Leon and Yolanda]], Drew and Cynthia ultimately break up and become this at the end of the story instead of happily staying together due to Cynthia wanting to leave the park to both go after the escaped von Grimm and do her own thing afterward and the both of them being well aware of how badly long distance relationships tend to work out. Drew doesn't at all mind this though.
36	* AmphibianAssault: The crassigyrinus prove quite eager to try to take a bite out of the rescue team at the time of their rescue in the Carboniferous Period.
37	* AnimalStampede: Frank is killed when one of these causes the porta potty he was hiding in to get trampled while he was still inside, crushing him to death.
38	* ArcWords:
39	** "Life finds a way" for Phase One.
40	** "Change is the natural course of life" and "Extinction doesn't have to be forever".
41	* AdaptationInducedPlothole: [[spoiler: It's never elaborated on why the other female ''Dimetrodon'' didn't take the opportunity once the resident mother died to just eat her rival's eggs before the team moves to save them]].
42	* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Most examples present in the parents series' are present here. The story refers to Megalodon as ''Otodus megalodon''. While the official name of ''megalodon'' has been in the air for a while, it was eventually decided to be ''Carcharocles megalodon'' about three years before it appeared in the story. This also isn't a case of dated science, because in ''Sea Monsters'', it was classified as ''Carcharodon megalodon''. The co-author has admitted he messed up there.
43	* AssholeVictim: Just about all the villains (amongst both the black ops squad and the smuggling operation) are mean-spirited, cruel, and unambiguously deserving of hatred scumbags. Consequently, there is precious little chance of feeling bad when they later end up dying horribly.
44	* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Even by T-rex standards, Sharptooth is an absolute giant! And he really causes a lot of trouble whenever he so happens to go rampaging around.
45	* AuthorAppeal:
46	** Cynthia's name, appearance, and personality were heavily influenced by this on Luczynski's end (understandable considering he's the one who created her). She was named after the Sinnoh region champion from ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' (whom Luczynski has explicitly admitted is an anime character that he's had a crush on in the past), her personality was remarkably similar to that of pre-CharacterDevelopment [[Franchise/HowToTrainYourDragon Astrid Hofferson]], and she was a blonde fair skinned girl just like both of them.
47	** More of this on Luczynski's end also played heavily into multiple names he chose to give to some of the animals (or in the case of a few others, had wanted to give to animals, only for the plans to end up changed) coming from characters in ''Anime/AkameGaKill'' and ''Franchise/TheLionKing''.
48	* BackForTheFinale: After spending a sizable amount of time out of focus throughout a large portion of the story, Adrian, Colette, Nikolai, and Kyle all take on prominent roles once more in time for the final four episodes of the story. And Spiny and Rey are able to be present for a brief cameo in the epilogue.
49	* BadassBookworm: Drew is a zoologist by trade, but proves his badass credentials when dealing with some very dangerous prehistoric animals. Leon can also, despite occasional crippling moments of nervousness, be surprisingly badass himself when pushed far enough.
50	* BadassCreed: "No species left behind."
51	* BearsAreBadNews:
52	** An entire sleuth's worth of cave bears get rescued for the park. The last one rescued in particular proves especially dangerous over the course of its rescue. Baloo also switches between this and BearyFriendly depending on the circumstances.
53	** Whilst not true bears, the Megatherium in "Ten To Midnight" resemble brown bears somewhat and are portrayed as huge, intimidating creatures that are dangerous when they need to be.
54	* BearyFriendly: Baloo serves as this when in a good mood.
55	* BigCreepyCrawlies: The main creatures in the first half of Phase One; the largest being Hepetet. But unlike most examples of the trope, these ones manage to win the sympathy of the Park workers, simply because it was just that big that it lost its creepy factor.
56	* BigDamnHeroes:
57	** Thanks to Nikolai, a large female pterygotus is released into a holding pen full of brontoscorpio (its natural prey) just in time to allow Leon and Mia to safely escape from them (and rescue Yolanda in the process).
58	** Cirrus helps save Linda from a pack of raptors during the mass carnivore breakout in ''Nightmare Labyrinthine''.
59	** Both Leon and Sharptooth manage to intervene just in time to save Yolanda from getting killed and eaten by a dinofelis in the finale of ''Anthropomorphous Apes''.
60	** In a sense, [[spoiler: Adrian, by virtue of catching Duncan and the black-ops unit in the act of stealing the time portal in time to sound the alarm in spite of their attempts at stopping him from doing so by tasing him]].
61	** Baloo pounces into action just in time to kill Zander before he can [[BoomHeadshot kill Will]].
62	** Thanks to Leon's quick work with his summoning whistle, the three Allosaurs Drogon, Rhaegal, and Viserion are able to intervene in time to bust him, Drew, Nikolai, and Cynthia out of an unpleasant situation with Frank, von Grimm, and several mercenaries.
63	* BirdsOfAFeather: In a way, Drew and Cynthia qualify as this by virtue of both of them being hotheaded and quick to rush into things without thinking.
64	* ButtMonkey: Kyle gets a lot of grief. And so do Leon and Jack for that matter.
65	* CanonDiscontinuity: Both Nathanoraptor and Drew Luczynski have made it quite clear (in response to a reviewer no less) that they have zero intention of letting the story have anything to do with the infamous 2013 ''Film/WalkingWithDinosaurs'' movie.
66	* CarnivoreConfusion: Averted, as this being a zoo, even the most ferocious carnivores are taken care of.
67	* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Alice, despite having worked with various dangerous modern day animals prior to being hired to work at Prehistoric Earth, seems rather jarringly nervous during the events of the mission in ''New Beginnings'' and not at all like the unflappable and collected action girl she is throughout the rest of the story. Jack similarly starts out as a one-dimensional jokester before later being revealed to have substantially larger amount of depth and layers to his personality.
68	** For that matter, during his appearances in the Cretaceous Period during ''The Wavering Gulfs'', Sharptooth is considerably more ruthless and vicious than he becomes over the course of Phase 3.
69	* CompressedAdaptation: For most of the Mesozoic missions, as they cover events that took place over a few months or years but, in this story, only take place over a few days at most.
70	* CoolBoat: The Ancient Mariner, which the rescue team uses for Mesozoic ocean animal-based missions.
71	* CoolGate: The time portal.
72	* CoolVsAwesome: The hostile t-rex summoned by the smuggling operation vs Martha the Woolly Mammoth.
73	* CowardlyLion: Leon.
74	* CrazyEnoughToWork:
75	** Easily applicable to a large number of Jack's plans (at least the ones that work anyway).
76	** The same can be said of Khatin's ultimate plan for helping Squishy fully recover.
77	* TheCretaceousIsAlwaysDoomed: ''Continent of Blight'' (the t. rex rescue episode) involves the rescue team being present to rescue t. rex and several other Cretaceous Hell Creek fauna just in time for the infamous asteroid strike [[spoiler:, with Drew ending up temporarily marooned in the past ''after'' said asteroid strike]].
78	* CruelAndUnusualDeath:
79	** Ed the Novum black-ops agent ends up eaten by Thanatos after a failed attempt at taking out Nikolai.
80	** Ed's partner Zander ends up getting his head crushed in Baloo's jaws after [[PapaWolf threatening Will]].
81	* CruelElephant:
82	** An adult male deinotherium in musth proves to be a dangerous obstacle for Drew, Leon, and Jack over the course of their adventure in ''Anthropomorphous Apes''.
83	** Similarly, an adult male mammoth also proves a similarly dangerous obstacle for a neanderthal before it gets attracted (read: goaded) into charging through the portal by Drew and Leon.
84	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Nikolai's time in the Spetsnaz (and that's ALL he'd like you to know).
85	** Leon also was bullied in school for being an autistic before he met and befriended Drew and Adrian. This plays a key role in why he snaps at Jack in "Life in Transition."
86	* DeathByAdaptation:
87	** [[spoiler:The resident mother ''Dimetrodon'' ends up succumbing to her injuries from fighting the challenger for her nesting site in ''The New Rulers'']].
88	** The mother leptictidium also ends up getting suffocated by the gas cloud in this version of the continuity.
89	** Due to the mentioned DecompositeCharacter case below, the Diplodocus that gets ambushed by the Allosaurus peck at the back of the herd dies rather than being saved by another Diplodocus.
90	* DeathOfAChild:
91	** [[spoiler: The baby cynodonts.]]
92	** Graphically, in the clearing scene in "All Great and Precious Things", in which many, many baby ''Diplodocus'' die.
93	* DecompositeCharacter: Due to the passing of time being condensed for ''Prehistoric Earth'''s take on the second episode of ''Walking With Dinosaurs'', the Diplodocus hatchlings who grow throughout the episode are subject to being split into several different animals assuming the roles of the hatchlings in the original episode (the hatchlings who escape the Ornitholestes, the juveniles who escape the Allosaurus and the forest fire and meet the Brachiosaurus, and the subadult/weaker animal that gets targeted by an Allosaurus pack).
94	* {{Deuteragonist}}: Whilst Drew is the Protagonist of each phase, the role of deuteragonist, tritagonist and tetratagonist changes depending on season. However, Leon is the series' true deuteragonist - his role greatly outweighs that of the other characters (aside from Drew, he has been on the most missions) and his overall character arc is given equal attention to Drew's. The results for each season are:
95	** Phase 1: Leon serves as the Deuteragonist, with the beginnings of his romance with Yolanda and his tensions with Jack being a prominent part of the phase. Jack serves as the Tritagonist of the season, with his tensions with Leon acting as a source of drama for the whole phase, with Kyle and Nikolai serving as the Tetragonists.
96	** Phase 2: Leon once again serves the role of Deuteragonist and shares this role with Jack. The former has a character arc training the allosaurs and plays a significant role in the finale, whilst the latter takes a significant level in badass, gets a romance arc with Collete and helps take down Sharptooth. Collete and Linda serve as the Tritagonists, with the former being Jack's love interest and the latter having a bonding arc with Cirrus and playing a prominent role in a high number of subplots. Finally Kyle and Nikolai serve as the Tetragonists, with each playing a prominent role in subplots.
97	** Phase 3: Leon once again takes the reigns as the Deuteragonist and shares this position with Alice. The former gets a RomanceArc with Yolanda, [[spoiler: and plays an important role in the finale]], whilst the latter gets ShipTease with Will, gets a bonding arc with Raksha and [[spoiler:is among the first to find out about Percival's infiltration of the park]]. Will and Yolanda serve as the Tritagonists, with the former's feelings for Alice playing a prominent role in the plot, and the latter serving as Leon's love interest and bonding with Sharptooth. Finally we have Cynthia and Sharptooth as Tetragonists, with the former's [[spoiler:attempts to find out what Percival and the Novum board are planning]] playing a prominent role, while the latter gets a bonding arc with Yolanda.
98	* DeviousDolphins: Whilst not technically dolphins, the territorial cymbospondylus encountered in ''Degrees of Greatness'' sort of qualify by virtue of being ichthyosaurs.
99	* DidntSeeThatComing: NO ONE (not even Leon and Theodore) was at all expecting to find a [[GiantSpider large species of extinct spider]] within the Carboniferous period.
100	* DoubleMeaningTitle: "The First Steps" both refers to the creatures of the story being the first creatures to go onto land and the first steps towards Leon taking a level in badass.
101	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In some of the earlier 'episodes', an 'introductory theme page-break' was included. This eventually got done away with later in the series. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that, unlike in the original ''Series/PrehistoricPark'' and the stories from the Extinction World mythos, Prehistoric Earth didn't have the presence of a camera crew or intent of this story telling the events of a TV-show as an excuse for these elements' presence the way the aforementioned previous works did.
102	* EatenAlive: Thanatos the liopleurodon subjects one of the villainous Novum black-ops agents to this fate. Sharptooth also subjects one of the other black-ops agents, plus TheMole, to this fate.
103	* EnemyMine:
104	** To put it simply, several staff members consider themselves to have a common enemy in Collete.
105	** This trope is further discussed later when Kyle and Nikolai agree that it's best to hope that no one is ever stupid enough to make enemies out of both [[VolleyingInsults Collete]] [[TeethClenchedTeamwork AND Leon]] strictly because of what sort of horror they could achieve if they were to unite together against someone.
106	** During one giant carnivore's rampage, all the herbivorous dinosaurs team up to scare it away in the style of a scene from Disney's Dinosaur.
107	** A large number of predator and prey animals huddle together in mutual fear of a massive wild fire in the finale of ''Ten to Midnight''.
108	* EscapedAnimalRampage: Happens multiple times, with one especially notable instance being when all the carnivorous dinosaurs engage in a mass breakout during ''Nightmare Labyrinthine''. Also invoked by both the villains and the heroes during ''Isle Full of Noise''.
109	* EurekaMoment: While trying to help Cynthia come up with a new way to feed the carnivores, Jack starts musing about Drew's increasing ControlFreak tendencies. He starts thinking Drew would put every one of the park's systems under his personal remote control if he could... and then thinks of the solution: a very durable remote-controlled car the size of a moped.
110	* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Leon, Jack, and Drew certainly do; and possibly so does Alice.
111	* {{Expy}}: Several expies.
112	** Drew himself is basically a younger time traveling version of Steve Irwin.
113	** Whilst Linda Eberhart may seem like an expy of Kelly Foster, Nathanoraptor has clarified that he has never seen the film and the similarities were unintentional.
114	** Furthermore, Kyle Taymor is basically John Luther as a head zookeeper instead of a police captain.
115	* ExtinctAnimalPark: The zoo features various animals from the original ''Series/PrehistoricPark'' series as well as from [[Series/WalkingWithMonsters the larger]] ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs'' [[Series/WalkingWithBeasts franchise]], which are rescued from the past via time portal by the adventurous zoologist Drew Luczynski and his team of allies.
116	* EyeScream: The first rescued cave bear (later named Baloo) is completely blind in one eye, and it is clearly through an injury there.
117	* FiendishFish: The ''Hyneria'', ''Dunkleosteus'', and ''megalodon'' all prove highly dangerous fish for the rescue team to encounter over the course of their respective rescues.%%Megaladon is a species name, not a genus, and not normally capitalized.
118	* FluffyTheTerrible: One of the park's Anomalocaris is given the terrifying name of... Squishy. Word of God states that this was deliberate in order to show his BadassDecay after being seriously injured.
119	* FullBoarAction: The entelodonts prove rather vicious creatures over the course of their rescue.
120	%%* GentleGiantSauropod: The majority of the sauropods featured in the story prove to be this.%%Prove to be what?
121	%%* GiantFlyer: The ''Ornithocheirus'' (with Cirrus in particular being especially large).
122	* GiantSpider: The mesothelae from ''Series/WalkingWithMonsters''. As no such animal is known from the fossil record (in the show, it was based on the sea scorpion ''Megarachne'', which was once believed to be a spider), it's treated as an undiscovered species in-universe.
123	%%* GodzillaThreshold: More than once.
124	%%* HandicappedBadass: Baloo. Cirrus also qualifies as this before he's fully healed.
125	* HeinousHyena: The wolves that attacked Martha in the original Prehistoric Park episode are replaced by an entire pack of hungry cave hyenas (all of which get sent to the park). The hyaenodons are also written to vocalize similarly to and even somewhat behave like hyenas.
126	%%* HonorableElephant: Martha the woolly mammoth is present in this continuity.%%And?
127	* HospitalHottie: Head vet Linda is quite attractive.
128	* INeedAFreakingDrink: Kyle's response after the arrival of the Pterygotus.
129	* InSpiteOfANail: Ultimately, the team is unable to do anything to stop [[spoiler:the deaths of the baby cynodonts]]. This was probably for convenience, as [[spoiler:it would be rather difficult to get the cynodonts to leave the burrow while their babies were still inside, and even harder to remove them]].
130	* ImprobableInfantSurvival: Happens to several other baby animals; most notably with the baby gastornis, which gets successfully SparedByTheAdaptation in this story due to the titanomyrma that would have killed it [[ForWantOfANail getting distracted by a dead propalaeotherium the gang throw in between them and the baby gastornis (and subsequently deciding to claim it as their prize instead) before they got the chance to do so]].
131	* KeepingSecretsSucks: Alice and Will certainly think so [[spoiler: when they become aware of Cynthia's true reason for being hired and sent to work at the park, and subsequently get forced to keep it a secret from everyone else]].
132	* KnowWhenToFoldEm: The phorusrhacos manage, unlike in Prehistoric Park, to actually intimidate the female smilodons, whilst trying to steal their kill. And in the end, only the arrival of Broken-Fang (aka. Half Tooth) is enough to convince them to reluctantly give up their attempts to steal the kill.
133	* LaserGuidedKarma: The very creature that nearly killed Drew as a result of Leon and Jack's childishness and ill-timed confrontation is the creature that they end up having to deal with personally as punishment the very next mission.
134	* LeeroyJenkins: Drew and Cynthia. [[spoiler: The former grows out of this after these tendencies end up getting him temporarily marooned in the post KT event Cretaceous period landscape.]]
135	* MadeOfIndestructium: The remote-control car used to feed the carnivores is built for durability. Made of Teflon, it's crush-proof, fireproof, bite-proof, and even bulletproof.
136	* TheMagicGoesAway: The whole point of the series is to [[TheMagicComesBack rectify that]].
137	* MammothsMeanIceAge: Deliberately invoked for the sake of Jack, Alice, and Drew's side of the mission in "Full Fathom Five".
138	* TheMarvelousDeer: The megaloceros are given seemingly rather majestic descriptions in "Full Fathom Five".
139	* MaybeEverAfter: Ultimately, whether or not Alice and Will become an OfficialCouple at the end is deliberately left ambiguous[[spoiler:...although Nathanoraptor personally believes that they will]].
140	* MeanwhileInTheFuture: The format of the episodes. While Drew and his companions are millions of years in the past trying to catch a prehistoric creature, the park crews in the present are trying to put together suitable habitats for the creatures they have captured, and dealing with other issues to pop up.
141	* MisplacedWildlife:
142	** During ''Degrees of Greatness'', Drew and Adrian encounter a pair of ''Liliensternus'', a strictly European genus, in Arizona. [[LampshadeHanging They note how far the dinosaurs are from home]] [[HandWave and assumed they are migrants.]]
143	** A similar justification is given when had earlier encountered a flock of ''Peteinosaurus'' (a genus only known from Italy).
144	* TheMole: [[spoiler: A security guard named Duncan turns out to have been hired by Novum senior board member Percival von Grimm to help sabotage the park for the sake of a sinister secret dinosaur trafficking operation. And over the course of Cynthia's attempts at finding and exposing him, she [[RedHerring initially makes HERSELF appear to be the mole]]]].
145	* MonsterWhale: Downplayed with the basilosaurus and averted with the dorudon. The dorudon are portrayed as very social and amicable creatures, while the basilosaurus are portrayed as more aggressive and vicious, but no more so than any modern animal.
146	* MythologyGag:
147	** The team has to make a ''Stegosaurus'' prop when one of the males starts acting aggressive due to hormones. The original series had Bob doing something similar when Theo hit puberty.
148	** Lightning and Thunder are named after characters from the Wonderbook game, though they aren't related in this story.
149	* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: The deinosuchus is amongst the animals rescued for the park. And the ones that get rescued naturally prove quite a handful to deal with over the course of their capture. The sarcosuchus rescued similarly prove reason for concern.
150	* OfficialCouple:
151	** Drew and Cynthia hook up over the course of 'Phase 2'. [[spoiler: But unlike the two couples that form after them, they ultimately part ways amicably instead of staying together due to Cynthia deciding to leave the park to go after Von Grimm and likewise pursue her own interests and Drew and her both well aware of how difficult it is to maintain long distance relationships.]]
152	** Jack and Collete are similarly a couple by the end of 'Phase 2'.
153	** [[RuleOfThree And then]] we have Leon and Yolanda finally getting together in 'Phase 3'.
154	* OhCrap: With all the dangerous events and unexpected surprises that unfold, this happens quite often.
155	** To name a specific example, Alice's reaction when she realizes she's alone with a ''Cymbospondylus'' in ''Degrees of Greatness''.
156	* OppositesAttract: All three major pairings of Prehistoric Earth showcase this.
157	** Leon is a solitary nerd; Yolanda is an outgoing social butterfly.
158	** Jack is an outgoing and carefree jokester; Collete is a guarded and tough girl who can be rather difficult to get to know.
159	** Drew is very serious and no-nonsense [[spoiler: and is always willing to trust his friends]]; Cynthia is a happy go lucky and carefree Maverick [[spoiler: who proves very raw and untrusting, and implied to [[LovesSecrecy love secrecy]] over the course of her spy work]].
160	* PantheraAwesome: Dinofelis, Smilodon, and Cave Lion are amongst the animals rescued and brought to the park.
161	* PoorCommunicationKills: Played with. During Alien Empire, the book Mia gives to Jack and Leon for the sake of helping them with their duties with the dunkleosteus turns out to be in French instead of English. They hurriedly try their best to find some way to translate it, but in the end, are forced to make do. While they could have tried to find Mia or asked Collete for help, they're not doing so is justified in that they were in a hurry, Mia was busy, and Leon may not necessarily have been all that keen on asking Collete for help anyway.
162	* PrecisionFStrike: A couple times.
163	* PrehistoricMonster: Averted, though many large predators do appear to be quite nasty. The scorpion-like animals are also given quite sinister descriptions.
164	* RaptorAttack: While not to the exaggerated extent usually associated with this trope, the park's repertoire of rescued animals include such creatures usually guilty of this trope as velociraptor, Utahraptor, and troodon.
165	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Leon and Jack give each other one during their time together in 'Life in Transition'. The one Jack gives to Leon is particularly scathing and mean spirited.
166	* RhinoRampage: A woolly rhino ends up briefly at risk of menacing a neanderthal before then getting goaded into charging at Drew and Leon (at which point it ends up rushing right through the portal). A crash of elasmotherium encountered by Cynthia and Adrian in the same mission likewise prove unamused by them seemingly intruding on their territory. Similarly, the embolotherium and arsinotherium that get rescued (especially the males) also prove rather vicious and aggressive over the course of getting brought through the portal.
167	* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: The ship tease between Leon and Yolanda showcases this in droves.
168	* ScaryScorpions: Whilst ''technically'' averted, it is important to note that, of all the creatures in the series, it's the various sea scorpion species that receive the most sinister descriptions.
169	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Invoked by Alice after a close encounter with a Hyneria in "Life in Transition." Adrian, knowing that the fish qualifies for Drew's 'no species left behind' policy, vetoes this idea.
170	* ShoutOut:
171	** "The First Steps" is named after the first album by the band Music/{{Faces}}.
172	** "Life In Transition" is named after a 2005 documentary film short exploring the concept of surrealism.
173	** That same chapter has Drew joke to Leon that he [[WesternAnimation/Madagascar1 "probably won't survive", which causes Leon to break his pencil nervously]].
174	** Several animals are named after recognizable characters from other media.
175	** The scene with the guard at the beginning of 'Isle Full of Noises Part 2' is based on a similar scene from ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE''.
176	* ShoutOutToShakespeare: The titles of each part of the three-part finale are all named after quotes from ''Theatre/TheTempest''.
177	* ShownTheirWork: While the series is mostly faithful to the original ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs'' and its sequels, several instances of incorrect science have been corrected.
178	** The ''Postosuchus'', for example, is portrayed as being both bipedal and quadrupedal, as opposed to just being able to walk on four legs.
179	** All of the theropods are given feathers; even the ones that did not have feathers in the original media.
180	** This one is speculative, but the therapsids all have a thin coat of fur on their backs.
181	** The andrewsarchus are given hooves, and made to look somewhat more like carnivorous pigs then the 'tiger-dog hybrids' (Nathanoraptor's own approximate words) that they were in Walking With Beasts.
182	** It is explicitly noted that, despite looking like pigs, the entelodonts are more related to hippos.
183	** The terror birds, as opposed to their portrayal as cowardly scavengers in ''Series/WalkingWithBeasts'', are portrayed as intimidating and powerful predators, almost driving a pride of Smilodon off their kill.
184	** The ''Gastornis'' is accurately portrayed as a herbivore. To a lesser extent, the Gastornis chick is fully feathered and able to walk right out the egg, like Gastornis' closest relatives, the anseriforms.
185	* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan:
186	** [[spoiler:Yolanda is initially attracted to Leon by his quirkiness and knowledge. It isn't until she gets to truly know him, see him let down his walls around her, and be exposed to all his other good traits hidden behind them that this attraction turns into love.]]
187	** [[spoiler:Collete gradually falls for Jack as a result of his charm, sense of humor, and the fact that he's one of the only staff members who isn't turned off and repulsed by her behavior and attitude.]]
188	* SlidingScaleOfPlotVersusCharacters: The story largely appears to have relatively equal focus on both plot and characters, while also seeming to alternate at times between placing more focus on the plot[[note]]i.e. the adventures in the past, rescues, care for the animals in present time, and a later conspiracy involving corporate spies and a smuggling operation[[/note]] and on the characters[[note]]many of the characters had important character arcs to fulfill, issues to resolve, and romance arcs to blossom[[/note]]. Part of this alternation has since been revealed to have been caused by [[CreativeDifferences behind the scenes upheaval between the two writers]].
189	* SmallRoleBigImpact:
190	** Percival von Grimm has so far only appeared at least thrice in the whole story. [[spoiler: Turns out, he's the story's BigBad and is responsible for setting up a dinosaur trafficking operation while also hiring a security guard named Duncan to serve as his mole.]]
191	** Duncan the security guard only appeared very briefly in ''one'' mission from the Phase 1 'season'. [[spoiler: Turns out, he's von Grimm's [[TheMole mole]].]]
192	** Adrian fell heavily out of focus in the story for a long while due to the role initially intended for him getting supplanted by Jack. [[spoiler: But in the end, he's the one who gets to catch Duncan and the Novum black-ops unit in the act of stealing the time portal and sound the alarm.]]
193	* SnakesAreSinister: Very much averted with Kaa the dinilysia.
194	* SpannerInTheWorks: In their eagerness to get a hold of the time portal after getting most of the other park staff distracted by their rampaging female t-rex, they completely forgot about Adrian. [[spoiler: And sure enough, he shows up in time to catch them in the act of stealing it, and also sound the alarm when their subsequent tasing of him ends up taking longer than they'd hoped to knock him unconscious.]]
195	* SparedByTheAdaptation:
196	** The adult female ''Postosuchus'', as Drew and Adrian scared off the ''Coelophysis'' and ''Liliensternus'' trying to eat her.
197	** Eventually extended to the male ''Ornithocheirus'', male ''Liopleurodon'', and the juvenile ''Argentinosaurus''.
198	** This would apply to Thunder, but his character is so different from the one in the wonderbook that it doesn't really count.
199	** The mother gastornis's chick is safely spared and able to live alongside its mother in the park by virtue of the team distracting the titanomyrma that [[WouldHurtAChild would have killed and eaten it]] with a dead propaleotherium before they can do so.
200	** In the same mission, the male Ambulocetus is saved by Alice before the gas cloud can suffocate him.
201	** Whilst the dominant brother Smilodon is still killed by the Megatherium, the smaller one doesn't fight Half-Tooth and is brought back to the park.
202	** {{Subverted}}, however, with the baby cynodonts. One of them was killed by Coelophysis in ''Walking With Dinosaurs'', while the other two were eaten by their own parents to deny the dinosaurs their food. In ''Prehistoric Earth'', ''all'' the cynodont pups are eaten by the dinosaurs.
203	* SpidersAreScary: Don't get Leon wrong, he likes all animals in general. But even so, he's not ashamed to admit that he's more than a little unnerved around spiders.
204	* TeamShot: How the story ends, with the team positioning themselves for such in preparation for the [[spoiler: upcoming opening of the Prehistoric Earth park to the public]].
205	* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Becomes a major point of drama for Drew in regards to rising hostility between Leon and Jack in "Life in Transition." [[spoiler:This puts Drew's life in danger in that mission's finale, in which Jack and Leon are too busy arguing to pay attention to the radar, causing him to be attacked by a Dunkleosteus]].
206	* TemperCeratops: The protoceratops in ''Storm in the Desert'' prove rather aggressive and territorial in their behavior towards Drew before later charging at him in time for him to send them through the portal. The triceratops and torosaurus rescued in ''A Continent of Blight'' similarly prove very ill-tempered and stubborn over the course of their rescue compared to the other Cretaceous Montana herbivores.
207	* TentacledTerror: The cameroceras rescued in "Devils of the Deep" prove quite nightmarish in Drew and Leon's efforts at getting them through the portal. And as Jack will gladly tell you from his efforts at trying to prevent them from overfeeding themselves in "The First Steps", they are no less difficult to deal with at the park than they were in the wild.
208	* ThreateningShark: The megalodon and squalicorax; albeit, in a more realistic fashion compared to most examples.
209	* TimeTravel: Made possible through a unique time portal technology.
210	* ToughArmoredDinosaur: Stegosaurus and ankylosaurus are amongst the animals rescued, and they both prove animals that the rescue team and keepers are not at all willing to get on the bad side of.
211	* WorldOfSnark: The PE crew all snark prodigiously.
212	* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Happens multiple times over the course of the series.

Context FanFic / PrehistoricEarth