Prehistoric Park. The Second Attempt

Prehistoric Park. The Second Attempt is a National Geographic production based on Prehistoric Park which was made in 2006. The series is about Nigel Marvin traveling into the past to give prehistoric creatures a chance in the present day by rescuing them. Prehistoric Park. The Second Attempt was released on June 15th 2023 on Disney Plus

Episode 1: The Second Attempt
It is a large isolated island in Britain where the massive mission will be taken, Nigel Marvin will be using extremely advanced technology to give ancient creatures a second chance to live in captivity. Nigel introduces the crew and the facilities. Everything is set up for all the missions and the planned creatures to be rescued. Today he is going to the Hell Creek formation 65 million years ago. He is going to do this mission using his jeep and time portal. Nigel drives through the portal and finds himself in a rocky plain with a triceratops corpse and about 5 quetzalcoatlus scavenging. Nigel got off the jeep and sneaked past the giant pterosaurs. They ended up flying off after hearing huge dinosaur stomps. Nigel runs to the jeep to avoid the dinosaur, in the jeep he notices a forest-like area and he parks his jeep. After walking in the forest he finds a group of ornithomimus and he decides to rescue them, when he opens up the portal a loud boom sound was heard and the ornithomimus scurry into the portal. They are placed in the holding area as the head of the keepers decided to place them in one of the large field pens. Nigel returns out of the forest and hops into his jeep and rides away. To the west of the rocky plain was a shrubland and he can see some sort of animal from the shrubland. With closer inspection he discovered that it was a lone triceratops. The triceratops was angry somehow and was missing a horn, he lead the triceratops to the portal. He now must search for a female triceratops. He was a couple of Pteranodons flying in the sky and lured them into the portal. He drove further through the shrubland finding some thescelosaurus and leptoceratops running near the jeep. He finally found a female triceratops with a baby, this triceratops was much calmer and easy to put into the portal. Meanwhile at the park the ornithomimus were put into their pen and they seem happy. Nigel still is searching for the tyrannosaurus but then he finds an adult tyrannosaurus fighting an ankylosaurus and the tyrannosaurus falls down and dies. Out of the shrub comes another ankylosaurus. Both of them were rescued and then out of the blue a stampede of leptoceratops, ornithomimus, thescelosaurus, and pachycephalosaurus came running towards the portal as a huge sound of a volcano eruption commenced. Some of the small dinosaurs ran through the portal and then Nigel closed the portal and two roars were heard and the portal was reopened and two juvenile tyrannosaurs ran through the portal. Nigel ran through the portal as he knew that extinction was coming. At the park the triceratops was placed in the pen and they began to fight. Their enclosure was seperated, as for the ankylosaurus the male and female get along. Finally the tyrannosaurus started fighting between each other so they were separated.

Episode 2: A Mammoth Undertaking
At the park the first baby was born. A baby leptoceratops was born in the Hell Creek pen and he was healthy. The tyrannosaurus were eyeing each other down through the fence, the male triceratops didn't move much so he was moved to the hospital. Today Nigel will be traveling to prehistoric Europe in the Pleistocene to rescue the Woolly Mammoth, the Woolly Rhino, Elasmotherium, and the giant elk. He enters the portal during fall, most species are beginning to migrate as he sees herds of saiga, aurochs, tarpan, and other creatures migrating north. After some consideration he rescues some saiga, aurochs, tarpan, and he accidentally rescues some wisent, caribou, and musk ox. The hoofed animals where placed in the holding pen as their exhibit is being constructed. The triceratops at the hospital ended up having a broken leg as the team created a cast for the triceratops. Nigel now discovers a troop of cave hyenas foraging on a giant deer, the hyenas charge at Nigel and he must rescue them to defend himself. Some of the hyenas broke loose from containment and one of them was killed by one of the aurochs. Nigel drove even further when he found a wooly rhinoceros he was about to rescue it when a group of Neanderthals run up to it and began to fight it two of the Neanderthals were killed but the rhino was killed as well. Nigel got away fast and didn't stop driving until he found some giant deer, the giant deer was planned to be rescued so Nigel rescued it. When the deer walked through a cave bear was seen stalking the animal one deer was killed by the bear and the bear walked towards the portal, before the animal walked in another bear came and they began bashing skulls with one another which was an unknown behavior, both bears walked through the portal. When the bears walked through the portal he was quickly separated from the deer. Nigel drove a little bit further until his one of the tires popped now he had to walk to complete the mission. After a bit of walking Nigel found a wooly rhinoceros which ended up charging into him through the portal. He had to jump onto a platform to not get trampled. The rhino was placed in the holding pen, meanwhile at the park the saigas, aurochs, tarpan, caribou, musk ox, and wisent were are placed in an enclosure and seemed to get along same can be said about the cave hyenas and cave bear but they seemed very stressed out due to lack of shelter. The crew decided to construct shelter as a placeholder for a cave. He encounters a male Elasmotherium with it's mate which he also rescued to brought to the park. Nigel now must head back to the Pleistocene to rescue a mammoth luckily when he enters the portal he finds a small herd of them they were spooked however and later rescued. The mammoths and the musk ox had to have its fur cut due to the warm weather.

Episode 3: A Feathered Dynasty
At the park musk ox seemed to be uncomfortable without their fur however, the mammoths and rhino were fine as they shed their fur, because of this the oxen where sent away to a zoo in Toronto. To test things out the t rexes where put in the same enclosure it started with them fighting but they later calmed down and stopped fighting the crew realized that they can get along. Todays mission is to Cretaceous Asia to find a microraptor, psittacosaurus, and others. Nigel enters the portal and finds out he is in a lush beautiful jungle, after a bit of walking he runs into a small lizard he decided to use the lizard to lure a possible dinosaur. The trap was set and after a while of waiting six Nemicolopterus flew down to the lizard, using a special net they were caught and placed in the portal. At the park one mammoth was in critical condition, the mammoth nearly died. Nigel had trouble catching flying dinosaurs until he finally caught two confuciusornis and a jeholornis and they were placed in the portal, suddenly dinosaurs were gliding everywhere as a herd of titanosaurs were on the move Nigel did not rescue them. At the park the rhinos seemed really stressed and escaped his enclosure, they gave him a larger space and he seemed a bit calmer but still on edge. Nigel walked further and discovered a lone baby psittacosaurus, he noticed that a young sinotyrannus was stalking the baby dinosaur. Nigel ran in zig zags with the dinosaur in his hand until loud stomping of the titanosaurs were heard and the sinotyrannus ran away. Nigel and the young Psittacosaurus went into the portal, he went back to find the Microraptor and another psittacosaurus. Nigel was distraught when he found seven psittacosaurus calling out of sadness as their babies were killed he let them though the portal and they began to bond with the baby. Meanwhile a pachycephlosaurus was discovered to have an unknown disease the crew wore protected equipment and separated him from the group, the test showed that the disease was very contagious and could've spread to all the other dinosaurs, they checked and only three other dinosaur got it unfortunately one died. Nigel found a few other confuciusornis and jehlornis and he finally found two pairs of microraptors, they were all saved and put in an aviary where they got a good amount of flying space, the psittacosaurus were put in the aviary as a experiment if the wouldn't harass the dinosaurs

Episode 4: The Sabertooth
At the park all the animals seemed healthy and happy aside from one ankylosaurus as he would sit by the fence and groan for most of the day the crew decided to give them some enrichment which seemed to make them happy, also a saiga had three babies one passed away. Today Nigel will be traveling to South America in the Pleistocene to rescue a Smilodon, Terror Bird, Megatherium, Doedicurus, and others. He entered the portal and drove a bit and found some Mixtoxodons he thought a bit and decided to rescue them, they later dispersed into multiple directions after a pack of smilodons began chasing them he was able to rescue nine of them including a baby. He saw a flock Terror Birds feasting on a carcass so he grabbed a piece of meat so he can lure them through the time portal. The Smildons got away to fast to be rescued meanwhile, at the park harassment happened between the psittacosaurus and the microraptors they were moved to an enclosure nearby. After some driving Nigel found a group of doedicurus and decides to rescue them whilst they were walking in a herd of long horned bison came charging near Nigel the Doedicurus walked in then he jumped behind a log whilst the bison ran by and he noticed one was killed by a smilodon, he decided to wait for them to finish and then to rescue them. Soon later a pack of titanis came and scared away the smilodons, Nigel was spotted and chased through the portal with them barely surviving. Meanwhile at the park the cave bear broke the fence and got out, the crew was able to sedate it and put it back in holding so the team could repair the fence, the triceratops were put together as an experiment and they began eyeing each other and later calmed down. Nigel went back to find the ground sloth and the smilodon, he later found a glyptodon and decided to rescue it as well, whilst the glyptodon was walking another came out from the brush and walked up to the portal, fortunately they were a breeding pair. At the park the Mixotoxodons have settled into their enclosure and the doedicurus have been mixed with the glyptodons, the Kelenken had a spacious enclosure and seemed happy. He found a megatherium which was very angry, Nigel needed to sedate the animal to contain it, He found a second and he walked in calmer later a pack of smilodons came chasing they came into contact with the megatherium, the Smilodons were killed, running out of the brush came a herd of macrauchenia running from a pack of smilodons they all ran through the portal. At the park the doedicurus began fighting so the males were separated from the females, the macrauchenia and the smildons seemed happy but, the megatherium seemed stressed so they were given toys and seemed a bit happier.

Episode 5: Creatures Of the Carboniferous
At the park a smilodon broke his tooth and the tooth was replaced with a model tooth, the tooth worked just as well. All the other animals seemed happy and healthy, today Nigel is going to the Carbonifeorus to find various bugs and amphibians. He enters the swampy land through the portal, after a bit of walking he found a Pulmonoscorpius hididng, he almost got stung but was able to successfully contain it. Meanwhile six eggs were spotted in the t-rex pen, they were placed in insulation. In the Carboniferous Nigel successfully caught some meganeura and they were placed in the portal, he still wanted more. Nigel later saw a megarache swimming, he threw a net but a cassygyrinus came inside instead he was placed in the portal. At the park the bug house was ready for the fist inhabitants, the house included a stream for amphibians, the inhabitants were placed in and seemed happy. In the carboniferous he set some traps for the night in the first trap a pair of cassygyrinus, nothing in the second and third, and 3 pulmonoscorpius, an arthropluera, and four Euphoberia which really surprised Nigel. They were all placed in the bug house, at the park the psittacosaurus and nemicolopterus began laying eggs and they eggs were incubated. Now he needed to find another arthropleura and a megarache. He set some traps for the night in one he caught some proterogyrinus and a Pteroplax and in the second one he found another athropleura, all were rescued. He finally successfully caught a megarache by throwing a net, at the park all the bugs and amphibians were happy and healthy and seemed not to harass one another, the exhibit was made with more carbon dioxide so animals can thrive, also more babies were being born including a doedicurus, mixotoxodon, and a microraptor.

Episode 6: Jurassic Titans
At the park the three t-rex finally hatched, they were placed with their parents and they began caring for them, today Nigel planned to go to Cretaceous Texas to rescue a Deinosuchus but the portal glitched and he was sent to Jurassic North America which was a planned mission so he decided to do it instead. He got his supplies and entered the portal and saw an allosaur nest he decided not to rescue this allosaurus as it would be an angry mother, After a bit of walking he found a herd of camptosaurs, they were a easy rescue and were placed in holding. At the park the psittacosaurus and nemicolopterus egg hatched and the mothers began caring for the babies. Nigel found a dead dryosaur and used it as a trap, after a couple of minutes and ceratosaurs walked to the corpse and the dinosaur was rescued. They had issues containing the animal but he was finally put in his enclosure, in his enclosure he starting banging the fence and he was sedated whilst they improved his enclosure. In the jurassic he saw a giant plain with sauropods, it was a dangerous rescue but he rescued a herd of diplodocus, camarasaurus, dryosaurus, more camptosaurs, a herd of apatosaurus,, and one barosaurus. They were hard to contain and were directed with food to their spacious enclosure, some of the dinosaurs got spooked and ran off so they were sedated and transported with a sling. Nigel now went Into the forest and found baby diplodocus coming out of the ground, some ornitholestes began to attack the baby dinosaurs Nigel saved a few alongside the ornitholestes. At the park the sauropods tried to knock down the fence but the crew made sure they couldn't do that, also a the megatheriums gave birth to a baby who barely survived. In the jurassic he found a torvosaurs fighting a pack of allosaurus, Nigel hid whilst watching and after the fight he rescued two of the allosaurus, one was pregnant and another was injured. Eggs were laid in the holding exhibit and were placed in incubation, also the ornitholestes were placed in their enclosure and seemed happy. Now he needed to find a brachiosaurus, stegosaurus, and another ceratosaurs, he was fortunate enough to find another ceratosaurs chasing a few small coelurus they weren't expected to be rescued but were rescued anyway alongside the ceratosaurs, unfortunately it was a male. The ceratosaurs were placed together as an experiment and one killed another one before they could be separated, Nigel was informed. At the park the ornithomimus were overbreeding so some babies sadly had to be euthanized as some were also unhealthy. Nigel found an angry stegosaurus fighting another one for dominance over a female seen behind them, one male was injured and the male and female were slowly guided through the portal, they seemed to get along in their enclosure. Now he needed to find a brachiosaurus and a ceratosaurs, he instead found a pack of tanycolagreus he attempted to sneak past them but they ran off after seeing five tall brachiosaurus, Nigel was nearly trampled when he rescued them. They couldn't be lured so they were sedated and barely transported with multiple slings, the fence was properly built so they couldn't escape. Finally after days of searching and running into a close situation with a torvosaurus which had to be shot he finally found one and she was rescued and separated properly from the mate. The crew really wanted the smilodons and mammoth to breed but they weren't breeding whilst some other animals like the microraptors were breeding a lot.

Episode 7: Lost To Man
At the park the triceratops finally laid an egg and it was taken to incubation, also there was a security breach with one of the Meganeueras fortunately, the Meganeura was taken back. Today Nigel will be taking the extinction plane all over the world many years ago when animals that went extinct due to man or a bit before man. There are several stops he will make the first is Madagascar and he will ride his extinction plane to Mauritius and the African continent. He enters the portal in the holocene and runs into a desert with modern day lemurs which were currently alive so they were not rescued, he got in the plane and rode to a biome where the elephant bird lived he did a but of walking but instead found more lemurs a few of them though were the extinct archaeolemur he diverted the other lemurs but since the archaeolemur were slower they were able to be rescued. At the park the ornitholestes began digging to escape, the crew put them in an indoor barn in dug up the enclosure made it undiggable and gave them mounds so they can dig. In Madagascar he finally found giant Moa eggs he sneakily took the eggs and placed them in the portal, when the mother came back she was lured in with plants, a nest was built in her exhibit. Now he needed to find a Malagasy giant hippo and a koala lemur. He entered a jungle where he found lemurs of today some being critically endangered, he rescued them for conservation purposes with the later goal of them being released in the wild. At the park the kelenken broke a toe, the crew had to sedate the animal and take it to the hospital, the injury was so bad that the animal needed an entire new leg. The smilodons, mammoths, and aurochs also wouldn't breed showing fear to the crew as the crew needed babies from all the animals rescued at a certain date, they decided to controversially use artificial insemination to breed the animals which didn't work as the baby smilodons and mammoths that were born were unhealthy but the aurochs were healthy. Nigel found a pool where an angry hippo was thrashing about the hippo attacked Nigel causing a broken leg, the hips entered the portal and was taken to the hospital, it was discovered that the hippo was infected by a deadly leech which could be surgically removed. The hippo was healthy after that Nigel had to rest and he couldn't continue the mission so his friend Sarah did. Sarah hopped in the plane and flew to a biome where it is almost guaranteed to find another hippo, no luck but she did find two koala lemurs about to mate she had to climb up a tree to rescue them. They were placed in a high point in holding so they can mate in peace, at the park the crew finally got a baby from one mammoth the mammoth was kept isolated from all mammoths but one during this process. Sarah flew to one last biome where a Malagasy hippo was finally found alongside a baby, both animals were rescued, the moa seemed fine as she got to building a nest immediately, the koala lemurs were left in peace, and the hippos seemed to get a long decently well. Now Sarah flew to Mauritius to find the iconic dodo bird, she flew to a beach and began walking through the jungle whilst she heard the sounds of many bird species, she found a nest with several eggs which was identified to be a dodo bird nest, she collected half the egg until she was chased by the mother dodo bird, she was placed in her exhibit and made a new nest. Now Sarah went to Africa, she had to keep a very low profile to not be spotted by the natives so she did the mission on foot. She found a herd of gazelles, zebras, wildebeest and she fortunately found a bluebuck, she tried her best to not disturb the herd whilst only rescuing bluebucks and it fortunately worked, the bluebucks seemed content and one was pregnant. At the park the team got a sponsorship from the world wildlife foundation and were given a huge salary as long if they rescued some extinct species in the coming weeks, some were already rescued but they needed to rescue a thylacine, megalania, stellars sea cow, great auk, and the passenger pigeon. Fortunately all these animals were planned to be rescued in the future, also a barosaurus was being incredibly inactive, the animal was inspected and had some sort of disease. The animal needed a giant pill which was sneaked under the food. In Africa Sarah found a small group of quaggas they began walking through until early humans came running, Sarah rushed the quaggas into the portal and she wasn't seen. All the new animals seemed fine, and the koala lemurs were given a pregnancy tests it came back positive. Nigels foot began healing and other people would be doing missions instead.

Episode 8: Adventure Call
It is a very warm day at the park which many animals liked, aside from the wooly rhino and mammoths, fortunately an advanced indoor quarters were built with artificial snow, cooler temperatures, and a glass ceiling. Also staff found a mother arthropleura canabalizing on half of her babies, she was given more food and she stoped. Today a biologist named Julian will be doing todays mission which is to the Permian period to rescue the dimetrodon, edaphosaurus, and others. He enters the portals and finds a forest like area and sees an odd figure in the water, Julian used bait to lure the mysterious create and found out it was an eryops which got away. Julian crossed the river and entered a forest where he found some mysterious eggs but no mother until a seymouria came and guarded over her eggs, Julian wanted the seymouria and the eggs so he trapped the seymouria and took the eggs, he did receive a nasty bite and the animals was given materials to build her nest. Julian was healed and continued his mission whilst at the park the babies began to grow up and the koala lemurs gave birth to a healthy baby and the young smilodons began to grow up, because of this the crew needed to separate them from the others so they did safely. In the Permian Julain found a baby dimetrodon running away, he decided to rescue the tiny squirming animal where his finger was bit again. Julian was okay and the small animal was placed in a terrarium due to the nature of dimetrodons. Julian noticed how many dead young dimetrodons were there and he made an observation that most dimetrodons had certain parts of the body taken off meaning the adult dimetrodons only go for small parts of the body. He entered a marshy creek and noticed another shadow he knew what it was snatched the eryops up and placed in the portal. At the park the first visitors came to see the animals all of them were very happy alongside the guests, they had to keep it low-key as they didn't want a ton of people to come at the moment, also a mystery baby triceratops was found even though the crew knew they didn't breed the animal seemed healthy. Julian spotted a lone edaphosaurus and wanted to rescue it however out of nowhere a pack of ophiacodon came and ambushed the synapsid it seemed like the animal was suffering not with wounds but with venom alongside the fact that ophiacodons were not known to hunt in packs lead to new discoveries, he did a bit more walking and found a massive herd of edaphosaurus and wanted to rescue a lot of them, the animals walked through the portal just fine until a lone dimetrodon came and attacked them scaring them away and killing a few, a solid amount of edaphosaurus walked into the portal so Julian was content but the dimetrodon escaped. Julian sat towards a creek and recorded some data whilst a small platyhystrix walked into Julians hand and soon another, and another until there was over 50, only 10 were rescued as the others were attacked by an eryops and the giant creature walked into the portal. At the park most animals had to get their vaccines, it was a massive undertaking as most large animals had to have been sedated, many ran away, and many were angry. In the end all the animals except for the allosaurus and t-rex were not able to get their shots. After a while of walking he found a whole nest of dimetrodons, he lured them into the portal until the mother came and trampled Julian and attacked some of the babies, after the animal walked through the portal it was sedated and taken to an outdoor pen. All of the new animals seemed happy, the eryops was placed in the bug house and the platyhystrix were placed in the house too. The edaphosaurus were already beginning to breed, and the dimetrodon mother was separated from her babies. Unfortunately an allosaurus was being extremely over defensive whenever keepers would come near his pen, the keepers realized that the environment that the dinosaur was in was a stressful one so after a day of renovations the environment was changed and the the allosaur was still defensive though the other one was not.

Episode 9: The Wonder Lizard
At the park there have been issues with breeding, Bob tried to incubate the eggs of the psittacosaurus along with other animals and he was attacked, staff tried to assist the long horned bison with breeding but some staff was attacked. Nigel contacted breeding experts and they recommended to let the breeding just happen naturally however when this would happen more babies would die. Aside from this the defensive allosaur was still extremely defensive to the point where staff couldn't go in the enclosure even with the allosaurus in holding, they decided to give the allosaur a separate enclosure, didn't work. Aside from. that Nigels foot healed and was ready for todays mission which was to Pleistocene Australia to rescue the Australian megafauna including the Megalania. He enters the portals into the outback and notices modern day kangaroos boxing like they do today they end up scurrying away after the Australian aborigine people came, Nigel watched from afar and saw one of the kangaroos die. After that Nigel drives deeper into the outback and notices a group of five extinct large turtles known as meiolania, they were easily rescued though due to their slow speed the rescue took about 10 minutes. Not so soon after that he saw dead meiolania with it's shell cracked open Nigel set up cameras in this area to see if any animals come to scavenge in came a pack of thylacines, Nigel opened the portal and the thylacines ran away. The meiolania was placed in an enclosure not to far from the ankylosaurus and doedicurus