Headscratchers / Dino Squad

Why does Victor Veloci have human grunts?

Do they know that he's probably going to kill them if he succeeds? or are they just motivated by money?

• If it seemed like Veloci wanted to keep things the way they are but replace humans with dino-people they might be in it for the money, but he only creates prehistoric monsters, meaning he probably wants to take over the world by destroying human civilization.
• Maybe he cut some deal with them, where if they serve him well enough, he'll turn them into dino-people like the teens are.
  • Except he's always trying to catch the teens to find out how their mutation is so complete.
    • "We'll use what we find out by capturing the teens to turn you into full dinos."
    • He doesn't know the teens are the dinosaurs.
    • The teens can turn from complete humans to complete dinosaurs. Victor's plan is probably more along the lines of turning humans into dinosoids, or something.

In the very first episode why did the shark become a mosasaur?

Veloci's whole purpose was to take everything back to prehistoric times. (The fact that velociraptors are from the Cretaceous, meaning the Jurassic and Triassic dinosaurs weren't around anymore is a separate puzzle.) There were sharks in the time of dinosaurs. A shark going through that ooze should have become something like Megalodon, not a mosasaur.

• The show actually does call the de-evolved shark a "mutant megalodon". That doesn't explain why it looks and acts like a mosasaur, though.
  • Actually, Megalodon lived in Cenozoic. So, to correct you my friend, I could say that shark going through that ooze should have become something like Ginsu shark, not a mosasaur (which ironically lived during the same time period and ecosystem like the Ginsu shark).
• It seems that creatures exposed to the ooze don't necessarily become their actual ancestors. For example, in the episode where the various pets got oozed, Fiona's rabbit became a reptilian kangaroo-like creature unlike anything in the fossil record, and in the finale, a group of puppies became giant dogs with spikes and fangs. The ooze seems to function more like a mutagen than a straight-up evolution reversal.

How can they do this shapeshifting?

I'm not talking about the kids, because Applied Phlebotinum is apparent there, but about Victor and the Teacher (Ms. Moynihan). They, as ordinary velociraptors, survived in a cave for millions of years, gained human level intelligence and the ability to assume human form. All without explaining how they survived that long, or how they gained these abilities. Would it have killed the writers to mention a radioactive meteorite or maybe the result of scientific experimentation by Neglectful Precursors? A single line of dialogue is all I'm asking for here.

• They are members of two factions of the reptilian elite?
• Ms. Moynihan did mention that "over time their genes mutated", implying something in the cave altered their DNA.
  • So aliens then?

Plot hole?

The show established that the main heroes and the raptors are "perfect" dinosaurs. But in fourth episode, two football players (the American one, not the soccer one) turn into raptors (with spikes on their heads), and they aren't treated by characters as "perfect dinosaurs". WTF?

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