This series follows a team of zoologists that travel through a time portal to various geological time periods and bring live specimens of extinct animals back to the present day, where they are exhibited in a wildlife park named Prehistoric Earth.
Premise[]
Rebecca Slatters, a talented veterinarian, is wrongly blamed for the death of a family pet belonging to a wealthy patient and forced to resign. Out of a job for months, she is then recruited by Allen Johnson, a well-known zoologist and animal wrangler, and hired to work at Prehistoric Earth, a wildlife park created for various animals, including prehistoric animals. When finally shown the reality of Prehistoric Earth, Rebecca joins Allen and a team of adventurous zoologists on missions to find and collect extinct animals from the distant primeval past by use of a time portal.
Characters[]
Main Characters[]
- Allen Johnson: An Irish zoologist, researcher, naturalist, and adventurer. He is in charge of operations going back in time to rescue extinct prehistoric animals. Alongside Jo, he is the co-creator of Prehistoric Earth and is very knowledgeable about animals, both in the past and present.
- Rebecca Slatters: A once successful Los Angeles veterinarian until fired from her job when a wealthy benefactor's pet dies in her care. Out of a job and no other place willing to hire her, she accepts an offer from Allen Johnson and Joanna Bakker at Prehistoric Earth.
- Crystal "Chrissie" Johnson: Allen's well-behaved teenage daughter. At first too young to accompany them on missions, she has managed to sneak onto the team's vehicles from time to time.
- Shaun Wells: Allen's long-time best friend and is in charge of the research of Prehistoric Earth.
- Rachel MacLeod: The park's tough, Scottish warden. Head of security and animal containment.
- Joanna "Jo" Bakker: The eccentric, enigmatic founder and CEO of Prehistoric Earth. Allen's boss, she is also his godmother.
- Samantha "Sam" Wilson: (recurring Series 3; regular in Series 4) An American archaeologist who studies the cultures of prehistoric humans especially when they started to live in the park.
- Korrina: (regular Series 4) A recently-hired Paleo veterinarian. Young and new to Prehistoric Earth, she is determined to prove herself.
Supporting Characters[]
- Ruby Van Pelt: A talented hunter whose methods put her at odds with Allen.
- Edward Quartermain: An elderly naturalist who is the grandfather to Allen's daughter Crystal.
- Johnathan Winston: An American genetic zoologist and head of a company known as PaleoSyn. He is also an old friend turned rival of Allen's.
Fauna[]
The animals at Prehistoric Earth were brought to the park from various times in prehistoric; from the shallow seas of the Cambrian to the cold lands of the Ice Age. There also over a thousand species of Holocene animals that roam in enclosures with their prehistoric ancestors.
Named[]
- Sue: A large female Tyrannosaurus that was rescued from Late Cretaceous Montana 65 million years ago.
- Big Al: A large male Allosaurus brought back from Late Jurassic Wyoming 150 million years ago.
- Half-Tooth: A male Smilodon rescued from Early Pleistocene South America 1 million years ago.
- Martha: A female Mammuthus rescued from Late Pleistocene Siberia 30,000 years ago.
- Sarah: A female Triceratops that was rescued from Late Cretaceous Montana 65 million years ago.
- Meg: A large female Megalodon rescued from Late Miocene Peru 15 million years ago.
- Scarlet-Eye: A female Dimetrodon rescued from Early Permian Germany 280 million years ago.
- Terri: A male Deinonychus rescued from Early Cretaceous North America 127 million years ago.
- Nate: A male Ambulocetus rescued from Early Eocene Germany 49 million years ago.
- Allie: A large female Deinosuchus rescued from Late Cretaceous Texas 75 million years ago.
- Terra: A female Pteranodon that was rescued from Late Cretaceous Montana 65 million years ago.
- Gorgon: A male Gorgonops that followed the team from Late Permian Siberia 250 million years ago.
- Gorgo: A male Gorgosaurus rescued from Late Cretaceous Canada 75 million years ago.
- Flat-Dog: A female Kaprosuchus rescued from Middle Cretaceous Africa 95 million years ago.
- Hercules: A male Australopithecus rescued from Late Pliocene Africa 3.2 million years ago.
- Arthur: A large male Arthropleura rescued from Late Carboniferious Scotland 300 million years ago.
- Hunter: A large male Australovenator rescued from Middle Cretaceous Australia 106 million years ago.
- Tarzan: A male Homo Habilis rescued from Early Pleistocene Africa 2 million years ago.
- Tublat: A male Paranthropus rescued from Early Pleistocene Africa 2 million years ago.
- Patchi: A male Pachyrhinosaurus rescued from Late Cretaceous Canada 75 million years ago.
- Nancy and Sid: A pair of Diictodon rescued from Late Permian Siberia 250 million years ago.
- Polly and Patrick: A pair of Phorusrhacos rescued from Early Pleistocene South America 1 million years ago.
- Rex: A male Coelurosauravus rescued from Late Permian Siberia 250 million years ago.
Episodes[]
| E# | Description | Era/Time Period | COI |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.01 | PILOT: NEW SAFARI
When the pet of a hospital benefactor dies of unforeseen complications, well-renowned veterinarian Dr. Rebecca Slatters is fired and blacklisted. Her fiancé also left her. Six months later, she encounters Allen Johnson, a famed zoologist and conservationist who believes she has potential. Therefore, he offers her a position as his new protégée at Prehistoric Earth, a privately-owned wildlife park dedicated to being a sanctuary for all animals, including those lost to prehistory. |
Holocene 2023 AD |
None |
| 1.02 | WATER DWELLERS
Believing she is submersed in the world of Prehistoric Earth, Allen takes Rebecca on her first mission and travel back in time with their team to the Cambrian Era to rescue the super-predator Anomalocaris and the first fish Haikouichthys, described as the first vertebrate on Earth. |
Early Cambrian 530 MYA |
Anomalocaris Haikouichthys |
| 1.03 | EYE OF THE BEAST
The team travels back in time to the Ordovician Era to rescue Megalograptus and Cameroceras. |
Late Ordovician 450 MYA |
Cameroceras |
| 1.04 | DANGEROUS SEAS
The team travels back in time to the Silurian Era to rescue a species of jawless fish called Cephalaspis, which is often hunted by the giant marine scorpion Brontoscorpio. |
Late Silurian 420 MYA |
Cephalaspis |
| 1.05 | AGE OF FISHES: LAND DWELLERS
The team travels back in time to the Devonian Era to get the amphibian-like tetrapod Hynerpeton, primitive shark Stethacanthus, and the giant river-fish Hyneria. |
Late Devonian 360 MYA |
Hynerpeton |
| 1.06 | AGE OF FISHES II: ARMORED FISH
The team returns to the Devonian to rescue the giant predatory placoderm Dunkleosteus. |
Late Devonian 360 MYA |
Dunkleosteus |
| 1.07 | GIANT SWAMP BUGS
The team travels back in time to the Carboniferous Era, where high oxygen content in the atmosphere has allowed arthropods to once more reach giant sizes. The coal forest is also inhabited by Petrolacosaurus. |
Late Carboniferous 300 MYA |
Arthropleura Meganeura Megarachne Pulmonoscorpius Petrolacosaurus |
| 1.08 | SAIL BACKS
The team travels back in time to the Early Permian Era to bring back two different species of pelycosaur, the herbivorous Edaphosaurus and carnivorous Dimetrodon, particularly following a lone Dimetrodon mother guarding her nest against raiders, such as Seymoria. |
Early Permian 280 MYA |
Dimetrodon Edaphosaurus |
| 1.09 | DESERT MONSTERS
The team travels back in time to the Late Permian Era on the supercontinent Pangaea, covered by a vast and inhospitable desert, to bring back various prehistoric lifeforms, including Diictodon and Inostrancevia. |
Late Permian 250 MYA |
Diictodon Inostrancevia |
| 1.10 | DAWN OF THE MESOZOIC
In this finale, the team travels back to the Early Triassic to rescue both Lystrosaurus and a small reptile called Euparkeria, an early forerunner of the dinosaurs. |
Early Triassic 248 MYA |
Lystrosaurus Euparkeria |
| E# | Description | Era/Time Period | COI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.01 | NEW BLOOD
The team travels back in time to the Triassic to rescue a variety of prehistoric animals, including the first dinosaurs. |
Late Triassic 225 MYA |
Coelophysis Plateosaurus | ||||
| 2.02 | NEW BLOOD II: MARINE REPTILES
The team returns to the middle Triassic to rescue a few species of marine reptiles, including Cymbospondylus. |
Middle Triassic 225 MYA |
Cymbospondylus youngorum | ||||
| 2.03 | KILLERS OF THE RAINFOREST
The team travels back to the Early Jurassic to rescue a Dilophosaurus. |
Early Jurassic 200 MYA |
Dilophosaurus | ||||
| 2.04 | LAND OF GIANTS
The team travels back in time to the Late Jurassic to bring back the giants of the era, including the mighty sauropods. |
Late Jurassic 150 MYA |
Allosaurus Diplodocus | ||||
| 2.05 | LAND OF GIANTS II: BALLAD OF BIG AL
The team returns to the end of the Jurassic period to collect the lion of the Jurassic: Allosaurus. |
Late Jurassic 150 MYA |
Allosaurus | ||||
| 2.06 | CRUEL SEAS
The team once again returns to the Late Jurassic of North America. This time, they venture to bring back Ophthalmosaurus, and the apex predator of the Mesozoic seas: Liopleurodon. |
Late Jurassic 149 MYA |
Liopleurodon Ophthalmosaurus | ||||
| 2.07 | MASTER OF THE SKIES
The team travels back in time to the Early Cretaceous. This time, they venture across the world (starting in South America, then North America, and finally Europe) via a large cargo airplane to follow and rescue one of the largest pterosaurs, Ornithocheirus. Along the way, they come across deadly packs of dromaeosaurs, and a well-known dinosaur called Iguanodon. |
Early Cretaceous 127 MYA |
Ornithocheirus | 2.08 | DINOBIRDS
The team travels back in time to Early Cretaceous, China to rescue specimens of Microraptor from a massive volcano on the verge of erupting the entire world. |
Early Cretaceous 125 MYA |
Microraptor |
| 2.09 | SPIRITS OF THE ICE FOREST
The team travels back in time to Early Cretaceous Antarctica to bring back various strong-spirited animals of the cold world, including Leallynasaura. |
Early Cretaceous 106 MYA |
Leallynasaura | ||||
| 2.10 | CLASH OF THE TITANS
The team travels back in time to Middle Cretaceous Argentina, South America to search for and get two of the largest dinosaurs of all time. |
Middle Cretaceous 100 MYA |
Argentinosaurus Giganotosaurus | ||||
| 2.11 | TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN
The team travels back in time to Early Cretaceous Africa to collect two predatory dinosaurs: a Carcharodontosaurus and a Spinosaurus. |
Early Cretaceous 95 MYA |
Carcharodontosaurus Spinosaurus | ||||
| 2.12 | THE GIANT CLAW
The team travels back in time to the deserts and forests of Late Cretaceous Mongolia to search for the Therizinosaurus, an obscure dinosaur with massive fossil claws, believing it to have been a huge carnivore. |
Late Cretaceous 80 MYA |
Therizinosaurus | ||||
| 2.13 | SUPER CROC
The team travels back in time to the Late Cretaceous to get the Deinosuchus, an ancient species of giant crocodilian. |
Late Cretaceous 75 MYA |
Deinosuchus | ||||
| 2.14 | SUPER CROC II: RIVER OF DEATH
The team travels back to the Late Cretaceous, this time in Alberta, to rescue a Pachyrhinosaurus. |
Late Cretaceous 75 MYA |
Pachyrhinosaurus | ||||
| 2.15 | JUNGLE OF THE CANNIBAL
The team travels back in time to Late Cretaceous South America to collect a Carnotaurus. |
Late Cretaceous 70 MYA |
Carnotaurus | ||||
| 2.16 | DEATH OF A DYNASTY: TO HELL'S AQUARIUM... AND BACK?!
The team travels back in time to the end of the Cretaceous to a place known as "Hell's aquarium" (the deadliest seas of all) to bring back a sheer number of different marine life, including the ocean's most apex predator: Tylosaurus. |
Late Cretaceous 65 MYA |
Tylosaurus | ||||
| 2.17 | DEATH OF A DYNASTY II: THE RETURN OF THE KING
The team travels to the end of the Mesozoic era to collect a variety of animals, including the huge and most famous dinosaur: Tyrannosaurus. |
Late Cretaceous 65 MYA |
Tyrannosaurus |
| E# | Description | Era/Time Period | COI |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.01 | NEW DAWN
After a long six month break, the team travels back in time to Early Eocene Germany to collect a Leptictidium, which lives in a forest where birds such as Gastornis rule this time. They also rescue other animals such as an early form of horse and the earliest whale ancestor. |
Early Eocene 50 MYA |
Leptictidium |
| 3.02 | BIG BLUE KILLER WHALE
The team travels back in time to Late Eocene Africa to get the giant predatory primitive whale known as Basilosaurus and even collect the strange land mammals of the time. |
Late Eocene 36 MYA |
Basilosaurus |
| 3.03 | THE BIG, THE BAD, and THE UGLY
The team travels back in time to Late Oligocene Mongolia to get the largest land mammal to walk the Earth, the Indricotherium. |
Late Oligocene 25 MYA |
Indricotherium |
| 3.04 | INTO THE MEGA JAWS OF DEATH
The team travels back in time to Late Miocene Peru to collect the most menacing beast ever to rule the waters - a shark of enormous power and proportions called Megalodon, the largest shark of all time. |
Middle Miocene 15 MYA |
Otodus |
| 3.05 | THE WALKING APE
When Allen falls ill, Rebecca and the team travels back in time to Late Pliocene Africa to rescue a species of prehistoric ape capable of walking upright and began the evolution of humans. While also going to Early Pleistocene Africa to rescue a species of upright ape that began making tools and a species of ape-man with attributes similar to a gorilla. |
Late Pliocene/Early Pleistocene 3.2/2 MYA |
Australopithecus Homo Habilis Paranthropus |
| 3.06 | SAVING THE SABRE TOOTH
The team travels back in time to Early Pleistocene South America to collect a Smilodon, the most well-known prehistoric cat of all time, as well as a species of predatory bird known as Phorusrhacos. |
Early/Late Pleistocene 1 MYA/30/10 TYA |
Smilodon Phorusrhacos |
| 3.07 | MAMMOTH'S UNDERTAKING JOURNEY
The team travels through North America, Europe, and Siberia during the Ice Age to get many kinds of animals including one of the most prehistoric mammals of all time, the Mammuthus. They also try to avoid two species of humans that are coexist at the same time. |
Late Pleistocene 150/30/10 TYA |
Mammuthus |
| E# | Description | Era/Time Period | COI |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.01 | NEW ARRIVALS
Having already traveled through all of the time periods, a new member of the park suggested that Allen can bring back more species and Allen accepts. He goes back and forth through prehistory to collect more prehistoric beings including North American terror birds, the first European hominids, the earliest Homo sapiens, and eventually the first human hunters. |
Various time periods | Various |
| 4.02 | POUCHED SABRE TOOTH
Allen and the team goes back in time to Late Pliocene South America when terror birds are the top predators, and must rescue a Thylacosmilus. |
Late Pliocene 3 MYA |
Thylacosmilus |
| 4.03 | DRAGON OF THE OUTBACK
The team goes back in time to Late Pleistocene Australia, when humans had first arrived. He goes into the Late Pleistocene, to collect a handful of weird and dangerous creatures of this time period, including Megalania, Australia's most apex predator of all time. |
Late Pleistocene 65 TYA |
Megalania |
| 4.04 | THE REAL KING KONG
The team goes back in time to Middle Pleistocene India to rescue Gigantopithecus, a large species of ape that dwarfs even the largest gorillas. At the same time they meet the first hominids to leave Africa and started to use fire called Homo Erectus. |
Middle Pleistocene 500 TYA |
Gigantopithecus |
| 4.05 | THE END OF EDEN
The team goes back in time to Late Holocene New Zealand at a time when Polynesians were arriving on the island. They go to rescue two species of birds living on the island the first is the South Island Giant Moa, the tallest bird to walk the earth and the other is the Haast's Eagle, the largest bird of prey to fly in the sky. |
Late Holocene 7 HYA |
Haast's Eagle
South Island Giant Moa |
| 4.06 | WELCOME TO PREHISTORIC EARTH
With the park filled with many kinds of prehistoric animals, the team prepares to open the park to the public so guests can see the animals they have rescued. |
Holocene 2023 AD |
None |
| 4.07 | THE MASS BREAKOUT
As the park has become a great success to the public, some Adorhynchus, lab-made reptiles broke out and lets some of the animals loose. It's up to Allen to recapture the animals and put them back into their enclosures. |
Holocene 2023 AD |
None |
Locations[]
Enclosures[]
Ape-Man Jungle[]
Ape-Man Jungle is an enclosure home to many of the park primates including the earliest ape ancestors of humans, however other animals resides there as well such as Chalicotherium, rhinos, and antelopes. The enclosure consist of dense jungle with a patch of open savanna. The enclosure is located next to Sauropod Savannah which the two enclosures are separated by a large lake.
Mammoth Tundra[]
Mammoth Tundra is an enclosure where many of the park's Ice Age herbivores resides most notably Martha and her herd of Woolly Mammoths, however a number of modern day animals live there such as the African Elephant, a modern day relative of mammoths. The exhibit includes a tundra environment with open grassland and patches of forest.
Sauropod Savannah[]
Sauropod Savannah is an enclosure where many different species of sauropod dinosaurs resides. The enclosure consists of open savannahs with scattered tree. The exhibit is located next to the Ape-Man Jungle enclosure which a large lake separates the two enclosures but allows the animals in both enclosures to drink from it.
Exhibits[]
Saber-Tooth Rock[]
Saber-Tooth Rock is an exhibit where Half-Tooth and his pride of Smilodon resides.