| “ | Previously we rescued the largest crocodiles that ever walked the earth. This time, we go back the Late Cretaceous only to bring back one of the most famous ceratopians that ever lived. | „ |
| — Allen, opening narration | ||
Super Croc II: River of Death is the fourteenth episode of Series 2 and the twenty fourth episode of Prehistoric Earth: A Natural History.
Synopsis[]
The team travels back to the Late Cretaceous, this time in Alberta, to rescue a Pachyrhinosaurus.
Plot[]
As they already rescued Deinosuchus, Allen informs Joanna that he will go back 75 million years ago again, but only to go to the Canadian landscapes of Alberta during the Late Cretaceous to rescue a ceratopsian dinosaur called Pachyrhinosaurus. They go through the portal and arrive on Alberta's prehistoric lands where they saw a small birds with teeth called Alexornis flying in the sky. The team gathers a flock of them for the park while they go search Pachyrhinosaurus. They travel through the landscape until they saw a herd of Pachyrhinosaurus led by a male who has a hole in his frill. Allen calls him Patchi while he also calls his mate Juniper and his brother Scowler as they watch them led the herd to vegetation.
Soon Allen saw a small ankylosaur roaming the area called Edmontonia which astounded him. He gathers a few of them along with another species called Euoplocephalus for the park's ankylosaur enclosure. They later saw a pair of oviraptor dinosaurs called Chirostenotes looking for food. Allen gathers a pack of them and gets them to the park along with a pack of Hesperonychus. They continue to watch Patchi and his herd migrate across the plains until they were attacked a pack of tyrannosaurs related to Albertosaurus called Gorgosaurus as the herd defends their young from the predators.
The pack leader kills one of the herd members as the Pachyrhinosaurus herd flees. The Gorgosaurus pack soon spots Allen and the team and gives chase until the team sets the portal and rescues the pack of tyrannosaurs and names the leader Gorgo. Later while following Patchi's herd, the team saw a herd of hadrosaur dinosaurs called Maiasaura migrating across the land not too far away from a herd of Parasaurolophus. However little did the suspect that they're being watched by another tyrannosaur ancestral to Tyrannosaurus called Daspletosaurus. The team rescues the herd of Maiasaura along with a herd of hadrosaurs with dome shape crests called Corythosaurus.
Later after rescuing both hadrosaur herds along with a group of pachycephalosaur called Stegoceras and flock of ornithopod dinosaurs called Parksosaurus, the team saw a herd of ceratopsian dinosaurs with a horn curved forward called Einiosaurus traveling to a nesting site. Soon the herd was attacked by a pack of dromaeosaurs called Dromaeosaurus hunting for food causing the ceratopsians to defend their young. The team rescues the Dromaeosaurus pack and Einiosaurus herd and puts them into their enclosures with the Dromaeosaurus pack residing the raptor enclosure and the Einiosaurus herd in the park's ceratopsian enclosure along herds of Chasmosaurus and Centrosaurus they also rescued.
Soon the team saw Patchi and his herd again and they set up the portal to get them along with a herd of Styracosaurus to the park. However little did they know that a pair of Daspletosaurus followed them to the park. Allen gets them to the park's tyrannosaur enclosure as they get the Pachyrhinosaurus herd to the ceratopsian enclosure. Allen watches as Patchi and his herd enjoy browsing on vegetation with some of their other relatives.
| “ | Next time, we go back 70 million years to rescue an ill-tempered theropod dinosaur that had two horns on it's head. | „ |
| — Allen, closing narration | ||
Characters[]
Animals[]
- Alexornis
- Centrosaurus
- Chasmosaurus
- Chirostenotes
- Corythosaurus
- Daspletosaurus
- Dromaeosaurus
- Edmontonia
- Einiosaurus
- Euoplocephalus
- Gorgosaurus
- Hesperonychus
- Maiasaura
- Pachyrhinosaurus
- Parasaurolophus
- Parksosaurus
- Saurolophus
- Stegoceras
- Styracosaurus
- Troodon
Time[]
Late Cretaceous - 75,000,000 BC