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The Walking with... series (also known as the Trilogy of Life or Walking with Prehistoric Life series) is a collection of shows that are produced by the BBC and are made by Impossible Pictures. The aim of the series and specials, along with its books, is to recreate extinct animals and presents them as a wildlife documentary. All the shows (with the exception of Chased by Dinosaurs and Sea Monsters) focus on one individual of a certain species or that species as the main characters in each episode. Creatures were realized through computer graphics and animatronics and are directed by Tim Haines. The concept for the series was imagined by Tim Haines and Jasper James.


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1 Series
2 Specials
3 Timeline of episodes
4 Books
5 References
6 External links

Series[edit]
Walking with Dinosaurs (1999)
This six-part series is focused on the rise, success, and the demise of the dinosaurs and other animals in the Mesozoic Era.
Walking with Beasts (2001)
This six-part series was a sequel to Walking with Dinosaurs, and its focus is on the world after the dinosaurs, and the rise of the mammals in the Cenozoic Era. It was released in North America as Walking with Prehistoric Beasts.
Walking with Cavemen (2003)
This four-part series recounts the evolution of humans.
Walking with Monsters (2005)
The three-part series was a prequel to Walking with Dinosaurs, and its focus is life before the dinosaurs, in the Paleozoic Era.
Specials[edit]
The Ballad of Big Al (2001)
This special follows the life and death of "Big Al", a famous Allosaurus skeleton found with various injuries. In the North American market, it was released under the title Allosaurus: A Walking with Dinosaurs Special.
Chased by Dinosaurs (2002)
In these two episodes, real-life zoologist Nigel Marven travels through time in search for various dinosaurs.
Timeline of episodes[edit]

Time
Geological period
Series
Episode

4400 mya Early Precambrian Walking with Monsters "Water Dwellers"
530 mya Early Cambrian Walking with Monsters "Water Dwellers"
418 mya Late Silurian Walking with Monsters "Water Dwellers"
360 mya Late Devonian Walking with Monsters "Water Dwellers"
300 mya Late Carboniferous Walking with Monsters "Reptile's Beginnings"
280 mya Early Permian Walking with Monsters "Reptile's Beginnings"
250 mya Late Permian Walking with Monsters "Clash of Titans"
248 mya Early Triassic Walking with Monsters "Clash of Titans"
220 mya Late Triassic Walking with Dinosaurs "New Blood"
152 mya Late Jurassic Walking with Dinosaurs "Time of the Titans"
149 mya Late Jurassic Walking with Dinosaurs "Cruel Sea"
145 mya Late Jurassic The Ballad of Big Al "The Ballad of Big Al"
127 mya Early Cretaceous Walking with Dinosaurs "Giant of the Skies"
106 mya Early/Middle Cretaceous Walking with Dinosaurs "Spirits of the Ice Forest"
100 mya Early/Middle Cretaceous Chased by Dinosaurs "Land of Giants"
75 mya Late Cretaceous Chased by Dinosaurs "The Giant Claw"
70 mya Late Cretaceous Walking with Dinosaurs the 3D movie Walking with Dinosaurs the 3D movie
65 mya Late Cretaceous Walking with Dinosaurs "Death of a Dynasty"
49 mya Early Eocene Walking with Beasts "New Dawn"
36 mya Late Eocene Walking with Beasts "Whale Killer"
25 mya Late Oligocene Walking with Beasts "Land of Giants"
3.2 mya Late Pliocene Walking with Beasts "Next of Kin"
3.2 mya Late Pliocene Walking with Cavemen "First Ancestors"
2 mya Early Pleistocene Walking with Cavemen "Blood Brothers"
1.5 mya Early Pleistocene Walking with Cavemen "Savage Family"
1 mya Early Pleistocene Walking with Beasts "Sabre Tooth"
500,000 ya Late Pleistocene Walking with Cavemen "Savage Family"
400,000 ya Late Pleistocene Walking with Cavemen "The Survivors"
30,000 ya Late Pleistocene Walking with Beasts "Mammoth Journey"
30,000 ya Late Pleistocene Walking with Cavemen "The Survivors"

Books[edit]
Related books issued by the BBC and Dorling Kindersley include:
Walking with Dinosaurs: A Natural History by Tim Haines
Walking with Dinosaurs 3-D Dinosaurs by Stephen Cole
Walking with Dinosaurs: The Evidence by David Martill and Darren Naish
Walking with Dinosaurs Sticker Book by Stephen Cole
Walking with Dinosaurs: Fascinating Facts by Mike Benton
Walking with Dinosaurs Photo Journal by Stephen Cole
Walking with Beasts: A Prehistoric Safari by Tim Haines
Walking with Beasts Photo Journal by Stephen Cole
Walking With Cavemen by John Lynch
Allosaurus! The Life and Death of Big Al by Stephen Cole
The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life by Tim Haines and Paul Chambers
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Space Odyssey (TV series)
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Space Odyssey:
 Voyage to the Planets
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Format
Sci-fi Docufiction
Created by
Joe Ahearne
Christopher Riley
Narrated by
David Suchet
No. of episodes
2
Production

Producer(s)
Impossible Pictures
Running time
100 min.
Broadcast

Original channel
BBC
Discovery Channel
Picture format
Widescreen
Original run
2004-11-09 – (UK)
Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets (released as Voyage to the Planets and Beyond in the United States) is a fictional documentary about a manned voyage through the solar system. Space Odyssey premiered in 2004 and was made by the BBC. It was written and directed by Joe Ahearne and produced by Christopher Riley, who was presented with the 2005 Sir Arthur Clarke Award for Best TV & Radio Presentation.[1]
The story is set at an unspecified time in the future, though in the accompanying book, the mission's chief science officer recalls reading Arthur C. Clarke's 2010 (published 1982) some 40 years earlier.[2]


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1 Story
2 Characters
3 Production
4 Tie-in book
5 See also
6 References
7 External links

Story[edit]
Five astronauts pilot the nuclear thermal rocket powered Pegasus spacecraft on a tour of the solar system. Their mission is a collaboration of the NASA, CSA, ESA and РКА space agencies and takes the crew to Venus, Mars, a close flyby of the Sun, Jupiter’s moon Io and Europa, Saturn, Pluto, and the fictional Comet Yano-Moore. Most of the planetary destinations the crew reaches are followed by a manned landing there. Prior to the mission large tanks of hydrogen were deposited in stable orbits around the planets to allow the crew to refuel to have sufficient delta-v for the multi-year mission.
The crew encounter many hardships and disappointments along the way. A Venus EVA that almost ends in disaster when the lander Orpheus encounters launch delays, the near-loss of the shield during the aerobrake in Jupiter's upper atmosphere (according to the first part of the miniseries) and the loss of samples from Jupiter's moon Io all test the crew's resolve. The most devastating blow comes when the ship's medical officer dies of solar radiation-induced lymphoma in Saturn orbit, forcing the crew to decide whether to continue the mission to Pluto, or abort and return to Earth. In the original British release, the crew decides to press on to Pluto, making history. The American version, broadcast on The Science Channel, was trimmed for length, the crew deciding to turn back at this stage rather than continue. The programme is narrated by David Suchet.
Characters[edit]
Tom Kirby (played by Martin McDougall) - mission commander. American citizen.
John Pearson (played by Mark Dexter) - flight medic. British citizen.
Yvan Grigorev (played by Rad Lazar) - flight engineer. Russian citizen.
Nina Sulman (played by Michelle Joseph) - exobiologist. British citizen.
Zoë Lessard (played by Joanne McQuinn) - geologist. Canadian citizen.
Also, several members of Mission Control, most notably:
Alex Lloyd (played by Mark Tandy) - mission scientist. British citizen.
Claire Granier (played by Hélène Mahieu) - flight surgeon. French citizen.
Production[edit]
The film had initially been titled Walking with Spacemen[3] due to the involvement of Tim Haines, the creator of the Walking with Dinosaurs series. This title was eventually dropped as Space Odyssey had little in common with the Walking with . . . series. To prepare them for the roles, the actors undertook basic cosmonaut training at Star City with the Russian space program. Many scenes were shot in simulated zero-gravity aboard a Russian Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft. Backgrounds of the spacecraft interior were later digitally composited in.
The series DVD describes the selection of locations in the Atacama Desert, Chile to represent both Venus and Mars. Weather conditions troubled production, needing to be overcast for Venus,[4] but cloudless for Mars.[5]
The fate of the Titan probe was deliberately ambiguous to prevent any conflicts with the findings of the then imminent landing of the Huygens probe.
The film's score was written by American composer Don Davis, who wrote the music for the Matrix trilogy.
Tie-in book[edit]
BBC Books published a book written by Christopher Riley with the same title as the UK version of Space Odyssey. It was based on the fictional diary entries of the ground staff and crew on Pegasus, with supplementary factual information on the planets they visited and the real robotic missions which have explored them through history. It is illustrated with specially commissioned digital still images and screenshots taken from the drama.
See also[edit]
Defying Gravity, a show based on a similar premise
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "2005 Winners". The Sir Arthur Clarke Awards. Retrieved 5 December 2008.[dead link]
2.Jump up ^ Alex Lloyd: "I first read of a manned Jupiter mission in Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2010 when I was a boy; little did I know I'd be involved... some 40 years later."
3.Jump up ^ Space exploration underway with BBC Worldwide, Discovery and ProSieben. BBC Worldwide Press Office. 26 March 2003. Retrieved 16 February 2008.
4.Jump up ^ Narrator: "Ideally, we needed a cloudy desert to film our Venus exploration scenes."
5.Jump up ^ Associate Producer: "Another day on Mars... a bit of cloud, which we could have had for Venus, but didn't."
External links[edit]
Space Odyssey homepage
BBC Press Pack
Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets at the Internet Movie Database


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Ocean Odyssey (TV series)
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Ocean Odyssey (working title "Oceans") is a two-part, two-hour (the two parts last an hour long) television programme produced for the BBC by the production company Impossible Pictures.
It follows the life of a bull sperm whale from his first deep dive until his death, stranded on a beach (originally it was to be a voyage in a submarine).
Unlike most Impossible Pictures productions, it uses CGI to recreate currently living rather than extinct creatures. Also, most of the backgrounds are CG as well.


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The Last Dragon (2004 film)
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The Last Dragon
 Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real (U.S. title)
The Last Dragon
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Genre
Fantasy / Docufiction
Created by
Charlie Foley
Developed by
Charlie Foley
David McNab
Justin Hardy
Kevin Tao Mohs
Starring
Paul Hilton
Katrine Bach
Aiden Woodward
Narrated by
Ian Holm (English release)
Patrick Stewart (U.S. release)
Original language(s)
English
Production

Executive producer(s)
John Smithson
 David McNab
Alice Keens-Soper
Producer(s)
Ceri Barnes
Running time
99 mins
Broadcast

Original channel
Channel 4
Animal Planet
Original airing
2004
External links
Website
The Last Dragon, known as Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real in the United States, and also known as Dragon's World in other countries, is a British docufiction made by Darlow Smithson Productions [1] for Channel Four and broadcast on both Channel Four and Animal Planet that is described as the story of "the natural history of the most extraordinary creature that never existed".
It posits a speculative evolution of dragons from the Cretaceous period up to the 15th century, and suppositions about what dragon life and behavior might have been like if they had existed and evolved. It uses the premise that the ubiquity of dragons in world mythology suggests that dragons could have existed. They are depicted as a scientifically feasible species of reptile that could have evolved, similar to the depiction of dragons in the Dragonology series of books. The dragons featured in the show were designed by John Sibbick.
The program switches between two stories. The first uses CGI to show the dragons in their natural habitat throughout history. The second shows the story of a modern day scientist at a museum, Dr. Tanner, who believes in dragons. When the frozen remains of an unknown creature are discovered in the Carpathian Mountains, Tanner, and two colleagues from the museum, undertake the task to examine the specimen to try to save his reputation. Once there, they discover that the creature is a dragon. Tanner and his colleagues set about working out how it lived and died.


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1 Synopsis
2 Dragon biology and behaviour 2.1 Hydrogen production
2.2 Flight
2.3 Fire breathing
2.4 Reproduction and courtship
2.5 Territory
3 Dragon species 3.1 Prehistoric dragon
3.2 Marine dragon
3.3 Forest dragon
3.4 Mountain dragon
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

Synopsis[edit]

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The story begins 65 million years ago, sometime in the late Cretaceous period. A Tyrannosaurus rex is stalking a creature that has been raiding its territory and food sources. The creature is revealed to be a juvenile prehistoric dragon. The T. rex had not eaten for days and prepares to attack the young dragon: in an attempt to defend itself, the dragon extends its wings to give the illusion that it is much larger than it really is, but the T. rex is not convinced and continues to advance. The young dragon then tries another tactic: it utters a piercing scream that carries for miles. Although the screech disorientates the T. rex, hurting its sensitive ears, the attack only goads the dinosaur on. Suddenly, the dragon's mother swoops down from the sky to the rescue and attacks the T. rex, slashing the dinosaur's skull with its talons. During the short fight, both animals cause serious injuries to the other; the T. rex breaks the female dragon's wing and in retaliation, the dragon breathes a jet of fire at the Tyrannosaur's face. The Tyrannosaurus limps away with fatal burns, while the female dragon is left unable to hunt for herself or her offspring.
65 million years in the future, at the London Museum of Natural History and Science, England. Dr. Jack Tanner, a young palaeontologist, who has been fascinated with dragons since childhood is introduced. Upon discovering talon marks on a skull of a T. rex, Dr. Tanner shares his theory about the creature that caused the damage to the skull with other palaeontologists. He tells them that the damage was caused by a creature unknown to science. However, he says that it was not the talons that killed it; a blast of fire, precisely aimed at the head was the cause of death, as evidenced by carbon deposits discovered down both sides of the skull. Unfortunately, his colleagues aren't convinced and Tanner's academic reputation is left in tatters.
In his office Dr. Tanner studies photographs taken of a new discovery at Romania. Several human corpses, dating from the Middle Ages, were found in a cave in the Carpathian Mountains while some straying skiers were being rescued. Along with the bodies, a carcass of an unidentified animal was discovered. The Romanian authorities ask the museum to investigate the find. Most of the professors at the museum want nothing to do with the specimen, but Tanner asks if he can go on behalf of the museum. The museum agrees and Tanner prepares to travel to Romania, under one condition - if it is a hoax, they leave immediately: if it's of interest, the body is shipped back to London. Tanner, along with two associates, arrive to discover that the remains have been moved off the mountain, Tanner wonders what evidence may have been lost in the process. The three scientists enter the shed where the carcass is being housed and begin analyzing the specimen.
After initial analysis, Tanner notes that the creature has a scaly hide and a tail, suggesting a reptile, but also has wings and foot talons, characteristics of powered flight. When he finds the wings, he wonders if the creature could really fly, as its wingspan is too small to allow flight. After further investigation, Tanner finds that the bones of the creature have a honeycomb structure, which would allow for flight, being hollow but strong. Internal scans of the creature show a huge heart, needed to pump oxygen-rich blood to the chest muscles during hard work, and two bladder-like structures. Tanner suggests that they could be gas bladders: the gas contained inside is hydrogen, which is lighter than air and would give the creature extra lift. He tells his associates that the creature has everything needed for flight but that they don't add up.
Back in the Cretaceous, two weeks after the fight with the T. rex, the mother dragon is dead, having succumbed to infection; the starving juvenile must now teach itself how to fly, while evading the scavengers seeking to feed on his mother's body: at present, only pterosaurs, but more dangerous creatures will come. The juvenile begins to eat the only food source available; its mother's carcass. While eating, an aged male dragon arrives to feast on the mother. The juvenile, sensing danger, flees, but the older dragon, seeking fresh meat, gives chase. The juvenile flees into a forest where the adult male cannot fly. Body working overtime, the juvenile begins to make hydrogen, essential for flight, as the adult is gaining on the juvenile, nature kicks in and the juvenile regurgitates the contents of its stomach to remove excessive weight and takes to the air, narrowly escaping the adult male.
In the present, Tanner inspects inside the mouth of the creature and declares it a carnivore, but also notices molars and wonders about their purpose in a carnivore. He also notes a fleshy palate at the back of the throat and wonders if it could have been used to prevent backdraft from fire. Noting that the mouth shows no evidence of ever having been exposed to fire, he reconsiders. He theorizes that dragons breathing fire is biologically possible, explaining that the bombardier beetle can emit liquid at a temperature of 200 °C.
The prehistoric dragon, now a young adult, is preparing to fight an alpha male for territory and mates. Before it goes to fight the other adult male it eats rock rich in minerals, which is found at the heart of every dragon territory. The young adult ventures into the territory of an old alpha male. The two fight and the young male wins.
Tanner says that to create fire, they need fuel, oxygen and a source of ignition. He then realizes that he had already found fuel inside the flight bladders, hydrogen and methane, both combustible and lighter than air. He then takes samples of the crushed rocks found on the molars of the creature to discover they are rich in platinum, which can start a fire in a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen. Tanner is now convinced that his theories have been correct and the creature is a dragon. Tanner begins to wonder how dragons survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, when other large land-dwelling creatures like the dinosaurs didn't. The narrator then explains that at the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event|, a meteor the size of Mount Everest smashed into the Earth, wiping out nearly all life on the planet. Sharks, coelacanths, turtles, and crocodiles all survived and all had one thing in common: they were all marine species. Tanner then remembers that crocodiles also have a false palate like the one found in their dragon, and deduces that it is an evolutionary relic passed down from a marine ancestor. The narrator continues to inform us that the land-dwelling prehistoric dragon was wiped out, but explains that the prehistoric dragon was not the only dragon species alive at the time of the K/T Event. There was also a marine dragon, a cousin of the prehistoric dragon, both descended from a common ancestor.
It is explained that the marine dragon lived in the sea and its the flight bladders became swim bladders allowing extra buoyancy, the wings became vestigial and served as fins, and the large tail became a rudder. As the land recovered from the impact of the meteor, some dragons returned to shallower waters and eventually made the transition back to land. Tanner suggests that the legends of sea serpents were actually recollections of true encounters with marine dragons. One of his associates discovers that a fossil of a false palate had been found in bamboo forest, in China. Tanner theorizes that the marine dragon came back onto land and evolved into a new species in the bamboo forests of Asia. The dragons of Chinese mythology are low-slung, elongated, and slender; all characteristics of a body recently adapted from water, but Tanner wonders if this would have been suitable for living in a forest.
We are taken back 50,000 years to the bamboo forests of China. The age of the dinosaurs has ended, and now the mammals have since risen up to fill the void. Here we are shown the newly evolved forest dragon, adapted to its new environment. We follow the dragon as it stalks its prey, and discover that the dragon has evolved a unique adaptation; mimicry. By controlling the flow of gases out of its bladder, the dragon is able to mimic animals in distress. The vestigial wings are too small to allow flight, the dragon only able to glide small distances; but the buoyancy of the gas bladders let it tread less heavily and thus quieter when stalking prey. The dragons also use their natural fire-breathing abilities to cook their captured prey, as the fur on some of its prey is not easily digested. The dragon succeeds in dealing with several mammalian intruders to its territory, including wild pigs and tigers, but in the distance, another species watches the dragon's use of fire with inquisitive eyes, a species that will turn the dragon's own weapon on it: humans.
In the present, Tanner, after theorizing about the marine and forest dragons, begins to wonder what other dragon species may have evolved within this family of creature. Tanner's associate shows him something strange on the monitor, bone fragments. He thinks they may be ribs, but the ribs are intact. The three scientists lift the wings of the dragon to discover that it has four legs and two wings. Tanner is amazed saying, "No vertebrate that ever lived had six limbs". They check the DNA, knowing that if it is not a hoax then the limbs will show up in the DNA. The DNA test shows that the dragon has a genetic adaptation in the gene responsible for creating limbs. Tanner tells us that world mythology was correct all the time, all depictions of dragons show them to have six limbs. He cites the different depictions of dragons as evidence of a whole family of dragons existing all over the world. He dubs their carcass the mountain dragon, and wonders if this is the dragon in European folk history.
As the three scientists prepare the dragon carcass to be packed up and shipped to England, they perform one final check to see if they missed anything. They find the tip of a broken sword buried in its heart, Tanner goes to where the Romanian scientists are studying the human corpses and find the sword that the tip came from. The narrator tells us the dragons survived until the emergence of humans, who used the dragon's fire against it. These encounters between humans and dragons are recorded in folklore throughout the world. Tanner discovers that the human bodies show evidence of carbonization, showing that the bodies were burnt, but their dragon specimen never breathed fire. As the Romanian authorities come for the dragon, Tanner studies x-rays that had been taken, he sees that the ovaries of the dragon show no follicular activity, and concludes that their dragon was a baby. The three scientists travel to the cave, hoping to find a nest.
We are taken back over 500 years, to the Carpathian Mountains in the Middle Ages. Dragons have been driven to live in remote places of Europe by encroaching human. A female mountain dragon is searching for a mate: she marks her territory with her scent. The female is near the end of her season.
The scientists arrive at the cave and find rocks that have been scorched in symmetrical lines. They scan inside the cave using echo scanning. As the female returns to her den, a male dragon arrives, having traveled to Romania from his territory in the Atlas Mountains, and the female goes to him. Instinct then takes over as the two begin their courtship ritual, where they fly to a great height then freefall together, only pulling apart at the last instant. Inside the cave, Tanner finds a nest, containing egg shell fragments and one intact egg.
Back in the 15th century we see the female dragon, using her fire to incubate the eggs inside the nest. The male returns from hunting, with no food. Instead, he brings another rock for the nest. The female, now being very protective of her nest, allows the male to enter the cave and take care of the nest. As the female takes her turn to hunt, the male enters the nest and places the rock on the nest. But instead of keeping the temperature at a high level, he lowers the temperature of the eggs in order for the eggs to develop into all females, as another male may be a rival for him; the resulting imbalance in sex ratio would have been tolerable in a healthy population but is a severe risk in a species which is now nearly extinct. The female returns from the hunt and finds the male not attending to the eggs. She quickly senses that something isn't right inside the nest. She finds out that the temperature in the nest is dangerously low and attempts to raise it again: one infant dragon has already died, but the other can still be saved. The male senses trouble and makes his escape.
The adult female has been stealing livestock from local villages in order to feed her young daughter, despite the risk of provoking the villagers. As the adult female begins to teach her daughter the secret of fire, a pair of local knights arrive to kill the dragon. They find that the young female cannot defend herself because she cannot breathe fire yet, and kill her. The adult female returns to the lair too late and finds her daughter dead. Both of the knights are soon killed by the enraged female, with one nearly managing to escape. With her daughter now dead, the adult female comes back into heat and begins trying to attract another mate. As winter comes, the female hibernates. More warriors (mercenaries paid by the locals) come to the den and catch her with her gas bladder nearly empty due to hibernation and attack her. She fights bravely, cutting down the mercenaries until only one man is left, badly wounded. As she rears above the man to crush him, he holds a spear upright. As she fatally impales herself on the spear, her toppling corpse crushes the last mercenary beneath her.
In the present, Tanner discovers a chamber. He enters it and finds the adult female. Back at the museum in England, Tanner shows the specimens to his colleagues: the legends of dragons were real, but had been twisted. The narrator tells us:

The story of life on our planet has been rewritten, by a mother and her child...reunited. The last of a legendary line. Myth made real. The myth of a sheep stealer, the reality of a mother struggling to feed her young. The myth of a vicious beast, the reality of survival...at any cost. The myth of brave knights who climb a mountain to slay a dragon, the reality of persecution and extinction. Now every dragon myth from around the world begs the same question: Were they real too? And more importantly, were these really the last dragons?
The story picks up one year later. Tanner, now Professor Tanner, is given a file by one of his colleagues. Tanner opens the file to find photographs. He looks at them, while his colleague tells him that they were taken only two months ago. Tanner runs off ecstatic, flapping his arms like wings, preparing to track down the dragon that was presumably in the photographs.
Dragon biology and behaviour[edit]

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This work of docufiction presents fictionalized accounts of dragon biology and behaviour.
Hydrogen production[edit]
Sometime in the evolutionary development of dragons, they succeeded in harnessing their natural gut bacteria in two unique ways, flight and fire. Many animals possess in their guts active bacteria which aid in the digestion of food. The bacteria inside the dragon's gut produces hydrogen. The hydrogen produced in the gut is then transferred into the internal bladders. This was seen as the dragon breathed fire.
Flight[edit]
Dragons have several characteristics typical of flight. The honeycomb structure of their bones allows them to be light, while retaining their strength. Huge hearts are also typical of flight, as chest muscles would need vast amounts of oxygen-rich blood in order to move the large wings. Although they possess large wings, just under 20 feet (6.1 m), the wing-span/weight ratio of dragons is not enough for the wings to give enough lift.
Dragons overcame this by utilizing two internal bladders. Fully inflated, these bladders had a combined volume of 30 cubic feet (0.85 m3). The bladders, when filled with hydrogen and methane; both of which are lighter than air, provide the extra lift needed to get the dragon off the ground.
Fire breathing[edit]
As well as the flight bladders being used as buoyancy aids, they also double as fuel stores for the fire that dragons are famous for breathing. The hydrogen and methane combine with oxygen in the presence of platinum, as a catalyst, and combust. The inside of dragons mouths are armor-plated and it has a false palate in its throat, similar to a crocodile, to stop backdraft.
Because of the dual use of the bladders, the more fire a dragon breathes, the shorter the distance it can fly.
Reproduction and courtship[edit]
Female dragons come into season for one month every year. They will only mate once every seven years. As dragons are naturally attracted to shiny objects, a female may use this for attracting a mate. When a male and female dragon prepare to mate, they begin a frightful courtship ritual: they fly to a great height, lock talons and free-fall, only releasing each other at the last moment. Once successful in mating, a female will build a nest of rocks and lay a clutch of two eggs. Like crocodiles, dragon embryos do not possess sex chromosomes, and the sex of the offspring is determined by the temperature of the egg, lower temperatures producing females and higher temperatures, males. The shells of dragons' eggs have heat-resistant properties, enabling them to withstand the intense heat generated from the dragons' fire, without which the chicks would die. The female ensures the eggs are kept from falling below the critical temperature, 60° Fahrenheit, by using her fire to incubate the eggs. Dragons possess special sensors in their genitilias which allow them to check the temperature of the nest.
Territory[edit]
In order to create fire, dragons need access to plentiful supplies of platinum. Because of this necessity, dragons always ensure that they establish their territory in areas which have rocks rich in platinum ore.
Dragon species[edit]



 Tree showing the evolution of the five dragon species.
In the program, four dragon species are explored in detail. These are the prehistoric dragon, marine dragon, forest dragon, and mountain dragon. On the evolutionary tree shown during the program, a fifth species, the desert dragon is identified by name only, and the program does not theorize about its possible evolutionary path.
The program's associated website theorizes that dragons split from other reptiles some time in the late Triassic period,[2] citing this time as a period of great diversification. All dragons species descend from an aquatic or semi-aquatic ancestor. Some of these ventured further onto land and evolved into the fully terrestrial prehistoric dragon, while others went further out to sea, evolving into the marine species.
Prehistoric dragon[edit]
The prehistoric dragon lived during the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous, alongside the last of the non-avian dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus Rex, Triceratops, Torosaurus, Edmontosaurus, Ankylosaurus, Pachycephalosaurus, Alamosaurus, and Troodon; as well as the last pterosaurs like Pteranodon and Quetzalcoatlus. Dragons, having evolved from reptiles, were originally quadrupeds, having four limbs and unable to fly or breathe fire. Via the process of natural selection, one species developed the ability to run on two legs. No longer having much use for the forelimbs, they eventually evolved into wings allowing for flight. This evolutionary path mirrors that of birds evolving from small bipedal dinosaurs.[3]
At some point in their evolution, dragons harnessed unique bacteria in their guts. Gut flora are present in all creatures' guts, and help to aid digestion. Dragons, however, harnessed bacteria which was able to produce hydrogen.[3] The production of hydrogen allowed dragons to utilize the gas in flight. With this extra lift dragons were able to grow into the largest known flying animal. At another point dragons began ingesting inorganic material, one of the rocks they ingested was rich in platinum ore. The dragons then developed the ability to breathe fire by igniting the hydrogen and methane in their guts by exposing it to the catalyst of platinum.[3]
The prehistoric dragon became extinct along with most of the dinosaurs at the K/T Event, 65 million years ago, when an asteroid or meteor the size of Mount Everest crashed into the Earth near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, destroying nearly all life on the planet.
Marine dragon[edit]
As some dragons took to land, others remained in shallow waters and coastal swamps and eventually evolved into the marine dragon. After the K/T Event, these were the only dragons that survived, the terrestrial prehistoric dragon, along with many dinosaur species, were wiped out.[4] A mutation in the gene responsible for the generation of limbs, provided dragons with an extra pair of limbs, an adaptation unique from all other vertebrates.
As some of these dragons repopulated the land, their rudimentary limbs evolved into wings[4] as seen in all dragon species post K/T.[5] Other dragons went further out to sea and became more specialized to a life at sea. Over time the rudimentary limbs became fins, the long tail became a rudder and the limbs evolved into flippers.[4] As dragons colonized the seas and oceans, those living in colder waters developed a blood protein to prevent their blood from freezing.
Forest dragon[edit]
After the K/T Event, as global temperatures increased, some marine dragon species ventured back into shallower waters and rivers. It was here that these dragons took their steps back onto land. Over time these dragons evolved into the forest dragons of Asia. Here they lived in bamboo forests.[6] They kept the long, slender bodies of their marine ancestors as they were ideal for rapid movement through the forest undergrowth. The swim bladders, also inherited from their ancestor served to give extra lift, allowing them to move more silently through the bamboo. As their ancestor had no need for them their wings remained only as vestiges. The forest dragon was unable to fly, but could use its tiny wings, and air-filled bladders to allow it to glide short distances.[6]
The forest dragon also developed a unique use for its bladder, mimicry. By controlling the flow of gases from its bladder it was able to manipulate its voice, producing squealing sounds, to sound like a distressed mammal to entice its prey. It is thought that as these dragons ventured further out of the forests into the open country, subspecies evolved, notably the Chinese and Japanese dragon.[6]
Mountain dragon[edit]
Also known as the Carpathian dragon or Mountain Devil. As humans encroached further and further into the dragons' natural habitat, they were forced into the more remote and inhospitable regions of the world, such as the deserts and other barren places of the planet.[5] One species eventually made its home in the mountains of Europe. Thus the dragon of medieval legend has been dubbed the mountain dragon, due to its habitat, although the species was not restricted to the mountains and lived in a wide range of habitats until the advance of humans on those lands.[5]
The mountain dragon, like all other dragon species after the K/T Event possessed six limbs. The mountain dragon's shorter body is even more specially adapted for flight, a long spine being a disadvantage. The tail grew as long as the body, and ending in an arrow-shaped tip could be used as a formidable weapon.[5]
According to the film, the mountain dragon is stated to have been the last (if not one of the last) species of dragons to have existed during the Middle Ages, as many other species at the time presumedly were driven to extinction by human activities. The individuals in the film were probably the last two dragons to ever lived, although this is made relatively ambiguous.
See also[edit]
Dragon
Animal Planet
Tyrannosaurus rex
Mermaids: The Body Found (2012), a similar program airing on Animal Planet that attempted to describe mermaids in a scientific manner.
The Flight of Dragons (book) (1979)
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ http://www.imdb.com/company/co0000130/?ref_=tt_dt_co
2.Jump up ^ "Dragon Evolutionary Theory". Animal Planet. Retrieved 2007-04-10.
3.^ Jump up to: a b c "Prehistoric dragon". Animal planet. Retrieved 2007-04-10.
4.^ Jump up to: a b c "Marine dragon". Animal planet. Retrieved 2007-04-10.
5.^ Jump up to: a b c d "Mountain dragon". Animal planet. Retrieved 2007-04-10.
6.^ Jump up to: a b c "Forest dragon". Animal planet. Retrieved 2007-04-10.
External links[edit]
The Last Dragon at the Internet Movie Database
Animal Planet's Official Site
 


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Planet Dinosaur
Planetdinosaurtitle.jpg
The title card of Planet Dinosaur

Genre
Documentary
Created by
Nigel Paterson
 Phil Dobree
Written by
Nigel Paterson
 Tom Brass
Directed by
Nigel Paterson
Creative director(s)
Phil Dobree
Narrated by
John Hurt
Composer(s)
Ilan Eshkeri
Country of origin
United Kingdom
Original language(s)
English
No. of episodes
6
Production

Executive producer(s)
Andrew Cohen
Editor(s)
Andy Walter
Running time
30 minutes
Production company(s)
Jellyfish Pictures
Distributor
BBC Worldwide
Broadcast

Original channel
BBC One, BBC One HD, BBC
Original run
14 September 2011 – 19 October 2011
External links
Website
Production website
Planet Dinosaur, not to be confused with Dinosaur Planet, is a six-part documentary television series produced by the BBC, narrated by John Hurt, first aired in the United Kingdom in 2011, produced by VFX studio Jellyfish Pictures. It is the first major dinosaur-related series for BBC One since Walking with Dinosaurs. There are more than 50 different prehistoric species featured, and they and their environments were created entirely as computer-generated images, for around a third of the production cost that was needed a decade earlier for Walking with Dinosaurs.[1][2][3] Much of the plot is based on scientific discoveries made since Walking with Dinosaurs. The companion book to Planet Dinosaur was released on 8 September 2011 and the DVD on 24 October 2011.[4]


Contents  [hide]
1 Spin-offs
2 Reception
3 List of episodes
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

Spin-offs[edit]
CBBC aired a spin-off, Planet Dinosaur Files, from 29 September 2011, hosted by Jem Stansfield.[5] Each episode compares three Mesozoic creatures and involves practical tests to replicate certain behaviours in an attempt to find out which creature holds a certain title, such as the "most powerful" theropod.[6] A 60-minute 3-D spin-off of Planet Dinosaur was announced in July 2011,[7] and was broadcast on 19 August 2012 under the name Ultimate Killers.[1]
Reception[edit]
Tom Sutcliffe of the Independent found that it was visually "polished and jazzed up" but that the "knowledge and science generally take second place to B-movie spectacle".[8] Brian Switek from the Smitsonian Science blog "Dinosaur Tracking" commented, "What sets Planet Dinosaur apart, and what I enjoyed most, is the fact that a modicum of science is woven into each episode to back up the different vignettes being presented." He also added "...[while] Planet Dinosaur is not that perfect dinosaur documentary that we have all been hoping for, it is still far better than just about anything that I have seen lately."[9]
Gordon Sullivan, from DVD Verdict concluded in a positive way "Planet Dinosaur is a fine series that gives viewers a good sense of where our knowledge about dinosaurs is at the moment. Combining nature-documentary stylings with a competent narration from smooth-voiced John Hurt, Planet Dinosaur is sure to please budding paleontologists and older dinosaur fans alike."[10]
List of episodes[edit]

No.
Title
Era
Director
Writer(s)
Original air date
UK viewers
 (million)[11]

1
"Lost World" 95 mya Nigel Paterson Nigel Paterson & Tom Brass 14 September 2011 4.74
95 million years ago, Late Cretaceous (North Africa)
In a swamp in North Africa a herd of Ouranosaurus are spooked by a Spinosaurus, which ignores them. Instead, it hunts Onchopristis (a giant sawfish), which are migrating into freshwater rivers to breed. A Rugops feeds off its leftovers. The episode cuts to a pair of Carcharodontosaurus, which are fighting to gain hunting rights to a herd of Ouranosaurus. The victor then hunts and kills one of the herbivores. The episode then cuts to the Spinosaurus habitat, where a drought is taking place and the Spinosaurus, scared away from the remaining water by a Sarcosuchus (which unlike the dinosaur can hibernate during droughts), is forced to hunt on land. After killing and eating a pterosaur, it comes across a group of Ouranosaurus. Catching the scent of a kill, it discovers a Carcharodontosaurus, which has brought down one of the iguanodonts. After a fight over the carcass, the Spinosaurus drives off the other theropod, although it is left with bite marks in its sail. It then journeys into the desert, taking a rest as the bites weaken it. The narrator explains that a million years later, rising sea levels destroyed the Spinosaurus habitat, ultimately dooming the species. The last scene shows the Spinosaurus, dead, presumbaly from the bite infections.
Species:
Ouranosaurus ·
 Spinosaurus ·
 unknown crocodile ·
 Onchopristis ·
 Rugops ·
 Carcharodontosaurus ·
 Sarcosuchus ·
 Alanqa
 
2
"Feathered Dragons" 154 / 85 / 120 mya Nigel Paterson Nigel Paterson 21 September 2011 6.368
154 million years ago, Late Jurassic (China, Asia)
 85 million years ago, Late Cretaceous (Mongolia, Asia)
 120 million years ago, Early Cretaceous (China, Asia)
In a late Jurassic forest in what is now China, an Epidexipteryx escapes from a juvenile Sinraptor by climbing a tree. It finds a beetle grub in the tree bark, being shown to use its elongated fingers in a similar way to a modern day aye-aye. However, its prey is stolen by another, larger Epidexipteryx, and after a brief bout of posturing, the smaller individual goes to find more food. It drops a second grub to the forest floor, where the other Epidexipteryx retrieves it, only to be killed by the juvenile Sinraptor. The episode then cuts to a desert in late Cretaceous Mongolia, where a Saurornithoides is shown brooding a nest of eggs. When it leaves the nest, an Oviraptor raids it, fleeing when the troodontid returns. The Saurornithoides is suddenly attacked and eaten by a Gigantoraptor, which then heads to compete in a breeding ritual for mates. The males use their feathers for display, a brief fight between two erupting at one point, allowing the females to choose the best suitor. The episode finally cuts to an early Cretaceous forest in China, where a Xianglong is being hunted by a Microraptor, which uses its feathers to pursue the gliding lizard in the air. A Sinornithosaurus attacks it, and after a brief chase the Microraptor manages a lucky escape. The Sinornithosaurus, alongside two other members of its species is then shown hunting a Jeholosaurus and its three young. The group brings down the parent, the narrator explaining that their possibly venomous bite allowed them to tackle animals much larger than themselves. A montage is then shown of the feathered dinosaurs featured in the programme, with the narrator saying that Microraptor not only hints at how flight might have developed, but also that dinosaurs still live amongst us today, as birds.
Species:
Epidexipteryx ·
 Sinraptor ·
 Larva ·
 Saurornithoides ·
 Oviraptor ·
 Gigantoraptor ·
 Xianglong ·
 Microraptor ·
 Sinornithosaurus ·
 Jeholosaurus
 
3
"Last Killers" 75 / 70 mya Nigel Paterson Nigel Paterson 28 September 2011 3.97
75 million years ago, Late Cretaceous (Alberta, North America)
 75 million years ago, Late Cretaceous (Alaska, North America)
 70 million years ago, Late Cretaceous (Madagascar)
In late Cretaceous Canada, in what is now known as Dinosaur Provincial Park, a Daspletosaurus stalks a Chasmosaurus in a forest, but loses the element of surprise and is forced to retreat. The Chasmosaurus comes across a younger Daspletosaurus, before being ambushed by a group of the Tyrannosaurids. The episode then cuts to the high arctic, where Edmontosaurus are hunted by a large species of Troodon. The theropods attack at night, separating a juvenile from the herd and severely wounding it, only to be driven away by an adult. In the morning, they return to eat the carcass of the juvenile, which died during the night. The episode returns to the Daspletosaurus, who chase and bring down the Chasmosaurus. The larger adults bully the youngsters off the carcass, forcing them to wait until they have finished. The episode then cuts to Madagascar, where a mother Majungasaurus (an Abelisaurid) and her two offspring chase a group of Rahonavis off a carcass. However, they are temporarily driven off themselves by a male Majungasaurus. But, after he steals some food from one of the young, the female attacks him, before she and her young cannibalise his body. The episode returns once again to North America, where the Daspletosaurus are waiting for the annual migration of Centrosaurus. They attack during a rainstorm, killing some of the ceratopsians. The Centrosaurus make it to a flooded river and begin to swim across, and although many make it to the other side, some are caught by giant crocodilians (which are probably Deinosuchus) or are severely wounded by floating debris and thus drown, or drown for unseen reasons. In the morning, the carcasses attract scavengers, including the Daspletosaurus. A montage is then shown of Daspletosaurus and Majungasaurus, the narrator saying that together, the tyrannosaurids and abelisaurids were the last of the killer dinosaurs.
Species:
Daspletosaurus ·
 Chasmosaurus ·
 Troodon ·
 Edmontosaurus ·
 Majungasaurus ·
 Rahonavis ·
 Centrosaurus ·
 giant crocodile (Deinosuchus?)
 
4
"Fight for Life" 150 mya Nigel Paterson Nigel Paterson & Tom Brass 5 October 2011 25
150 million years ago, Late Jurassic (Europe)
150 million years ago, Late Jurassic (North America)
In the seas around late Jurassic Europe Kimmerosaurus hunt Squatina. They are ambushed by Pliosaurus funkei, but manage to escape to water too shallow for the enormous pliosaur. The episode then cuts to North America, where Stegosaurus and Camptosaurus coexist in a mutually beneficial relationship: the Camptosaurus serve as lookouts, while Stegosaurus provide protection. An Allosaurus attacks the group, and after the Camptosaurus flee, attacks the Stegosaurus, but in the end is severely wounded by a Stegosaurus' thagomizer (spiked tail). However, the Allosaurus survives and recovers from the injury. The episode returns to the Jurassic seas, where the tide has risen, allowing Pliosaurus to attack the Kimmerosaurus, but it is unable to use its full power in the shallow water, allowing the agile plesiosaurs to escape. However, they must eventually return to deeper water to feed. The episode returns to North America, where another Allosaurus is hunting a pair of Camptosaurus, who are away from the protection of Stegosaurus. The theropod manages to bring down one of the Camptosaurus, only to be chased off its kill by a Saurophaganax. The episode returns again to the seas around Europe, where a Kimmerosaurus is feeding near the surface in deeper water. It is attacked from below by Pliosaurus, which finally manages to kill the plesiosaur, leaving half of it to sink to the seafloor. The episode ends with the narrator stating that creatures like Pliosaurus ruled the oceans for 100 million years.
Species:
Unidentified Ammonite ·
 Squatina ·
 Kimmerosaurus ·
 Fish ·
 Pliosaurus funkei (identified as Predator X) ·
 Stegosaurus ·
 Camptosaurus ·
 Pterosaur ·
 Allosaurus ·
 Saurophaganax
 
5
"New Giants" 95 mya Nigel Paterson Nigel Paterson 12 October 2011 53
95 million years ago, Late Cretaceous (South America)
 95 million years ago, Late Cretaceous (North Africa)
In late Cretaceous South America at a nest site an Argentinosaurus hatches, and is almost immediately attacked by a chaoyangopterid pterosaur which itself is scared away by a Skorpiovenator, which proceeds to kill and eat the hatchling. However, it itself flees when a herd of adult Argentinosaurus arrive, although they offer no protection for the hatchlings, which begin to feed on the surrounding vegetation. The episode then cuts to late Cretaceous North Africa, where a herd of Paralititan take a drink from a river to cool down. They are spooked when a group of crocodiles emerges from the water, and a juvenile becomes stuck in mud. The crocodiles are scared away by a Sarcosuchus, which closes in on the trapped Paralititan. The episode returns to South America, where the herd of Argentinosaurus move across a volcanic ash field to find food. Due to their sheer size, they churn up the ground with each step, creating quicksand that becomes a death trap for the small Hypsilophodonts travelling with them. The Titanosaurs find a clump of trees and begin feeding, but are attacked by a group of Mapusaurus. The theropods manage to rip a chunk of meat off one of the sauropods, but due to its size it is not fatally wounded. During the attack, one of the Mapusaurus is crushed by an agitated Argentinosaurus. Back in North Africa, the Sarcosuchus gets a hold of one of the Paralititan's legs, but a Carcharodontosaurus grips its neck, and eventually wrestles it from the giant crocodilian's jaws. However, it is chased away by the adult Paralititan, and the juvenile survives. The episode finally cuts back to South America, where the injured Argentinosaurus lies dying. A time lapse is then shown of Mapusaurus, Skorpiovenator and Chaoyangopterid pterosaurs feeding on the carcass until the bones are all that's left. The narrator then explains that when Argentinosaurus went extinct, so did Mapusaurus. The same event happened with Paralititan and Carcharodontosaurus in Africa. The episode concudes with the Argentinosaurus body being shown decaying until only its bones are left to be fossilised, as the narrator explains that when the sauropods died out, their predators lost their main food supply and they too were doomed.
Species:
Argentinosaurus ·
 Unidentified chaoyangopterid pterosaur ·
 Skorpiovenator ·
 Gasparinisaura (identified as Hypsilophodont) ·
 Mapusaurus ·
 Ouranosaurus ·
 Paralititan ·
 Crocodile ·
 Sarcosuchus ·
 Carcharodontosaurus
 
6
"The Great Survivors" 65 / 92 / 85 mya Nigel Paterson Nigel Paterson & Tom Brass 19 October 2011 
65 million years ago, Late Cretaceous (Hațeg Island, Romania)
92 million years ago, Late Cretaceous (Zuni Basin, USA)85 million years ago, Late Cretaceous (Mongolia, Asia)
Towards the end of the Cretaceous period, on Hațeg Island, a herd of Magyarosaurus feed on vegetation, while a Bradycneme hunts lizards amongst them. A group of Hatzegopteryx descend from the sky, and hunt and eat young Magyarosaurus. The episode then cuts to North America, 92 million years ago. A "Zunityrannus" (name given to unnamed Zuni basin Tyrannosauroid by the programme) attacks a pair of Nothronychus, but is driven off. The Therizinosaurs feed on the surrounding vegetation, but are then attacked by a group of Zunityrannus, but again manage to fight them off. The tyrannosaurs are forced to scavenge on a nearby carcass of their own species. However, they catch botulism from the rotting flesh, and later die. The episode then cuts to Mongolia, 7 million years later. A Gigantoraptor and her mate guard their nest from marauding predators, driving off an Alectrosaurus. The female leaves the male with the nest, presumably to find food. After a rainstorm, the male is attacked by a pair of Alectrosaurus, and while they fight, an Oviraptor raids the nest. The Gigantoraptor manages to drive off the tyrannosaurs, and chases away its smaller relative without losing any eggs. However, he is later buried during a sandstorm, still guarding his nest. The episode then cuts to 65 million years ago, when an enormous asteroid crashes into the Gulf of Mexico, causing devastation upon impact and filling the atmosphere with debris. Four months later on Hațeg Island, most vegetation has died due to the lack of sunlight, starving the Margyarosaurus. Scavengers do well for the time being, with a group of Hatzegopteryx driving a Bradycneme off a carcass. The smaller dinosaur is forced to hunt lizards, while the narrator explains that 60 percent of species went extinct, with the dinosaur's size being what ultimately condemned them to extinction. A montage is then shown of various creatures featured throughout the previous 5 episodes, with the narrator saying that dinosaurs are the most successful group of animals ever to exist on earth, and that it was an unprecedented extraterrestrial event that finally ended Planet Dinosaur.
Species:
Bradycneme ·
 Magyarosaurus ·
 Lizard ·
 Eurazhdarcho ·
 Hatzegopteryx ·
 Tyrannosauroid (identified as Zunityrannus) ·
 Nothronychus ·
 Oviraptor ·
 Alectrosaurus ·
 Gigantoraptor
 
See also[edit]
Walking with Dinosaurs
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Planet Dinosaur". BBC One. Retrieved 19 September 2011.
2.Jump up ^ "Planet Dinosaur". Jellyfish Pictures. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
3.Jump up ^ "Planet Dinosaur". CGSociety. Retrieved 19 September 2011.
4.Jump up ^ Planet Dinosaur (DVD) and Planet Dinosaur (Hardback). BBC Shop. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
5.Jump up ^ Planet Dinosaur Files. BBC. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
6.Jump up ^ BBC iPlayer: Planet Dinosaur Files: "Most Powerful". BBC. Retrieved 15 October 2011.
7.Jump up ^ Farber, Alex; Neilan, Catherine (7 July 2011). "BBC kicks off 3D push with Planet Dinosaur spin-off". Broadcast. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
8.Jump up ^ Sutcliffe, Tom (15 September 2011). "Last Night's TV: Planet Dinosaur". The Independent. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
9.Jump up ^ http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2011/09/return-to-planet-dinosaur/ (19 September 2011). Smithsonian magazine.
10.Jump up ^ http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/planetdinosaur.php (10 September 2012). DVD Verdict Review.
11.Jump up ^ "Weekly Top 30 Programmes". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board. 14 September 2011, 28 September 2011. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
External links[edit]
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Walking with Dinosaurs (video game)
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Walking with Dinosaurs
Walking with Dinosaurs PS3.png
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Developer(s) Supermassive Games
Publisher(s) Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
Series Walking with Dinosaurs
Platform(s) PlayStation 3
Release date(s) NA 12 November 2013[1]
EU 13 November 2013

Genre(s) Augmented reality
Mode(s) Single-player
Distribution Blu-ray Disc, digital download
Walking with Dinosaurs (or Wonderbook: Walking with Dinosaurs) is a 2013 augmented reality video game developed by Supermassive Games in collaboration with the BBC, as part of the resurgence of the Walking with Dinosaurs brand spearheaded by the feature film. It was released in Europe on 13 November 2013, and in North America on 12 November 2013, alongside Diggs Nightcrawler and Book of Potions.[1]


Contents  [hide]
1 Gameplay
2 Story 2.1 Chapter 1: The Great Exodus
2.2 Chapter 2: March of the Titans
2.3 Chapter 3: Terror in the Swamp
2.4 Chapter 4: The Impenetrable Fortress
2.5 Chapter 5: King of the Dragons
3 Reception
4 References
5 External links

Gameplay[edit]
Wonderbook: Walking with Dinosaurs features multiple activities across five chapters, each of which is split into two sections, with each section involving a full "read" of the Wonderbook. Each chapter takes place at a different dig site, and begins with the player using the PlayStation Move controller to simulate different tools, with the goal of excavating the skeletal remains of a dinosaur, then using them to reconstruct the beast. From there, activities include battles between dinosaurs and mating rituals, where the Move controller is used to simulate movement and actions; using the Move controller as an X-ray torch to scan dinosaurs and explore their skeletons and organs, and balancing the weight of dinosaurs using different vehicles, among other activities.
The game also features questions to test the player's knowledge, with each section culminating in a five-question quiz. Each chapter also tells a different story, introducing different characters and dinosaur species. The first chapter features characters from the Walking with Dinosaurs feature film. Depending on their performance in the activities, the player will receive gold, silver, or bronze medals. Each activity also features a number of fact cards to find and collect. Players can then view their collection from a separate section of the game.
Story[edit]
Chapter 1: The Great Exodus[edit]
The story begins at a dig site at Horseshoe Canyon (Alberta). You use a hammer to break away the rock, then switch to a brush to clear away the dirt, then get a pincher to pick up the fossil bones and put them in the right place to make a skeleton of a Gorgosaurus. After travelling back in time 70 million years ago into the Late Cretaceous, you must stay still so Gorgon can't see where you are hiding. You then go to a more pleasant area where you look through a panoramic area, and find an Alexornis (John Leguizamo), some Alphadons, an adult Pachyrhinosaurus named Oak, two youngsters named Patchi (Justin Long) and Juniper (Tiya Sircar), an Edmontosaurus, and Gorgon fighting a Pentaceratops. While examining various Cretaceous plants, you see Oak, Patchi, and Juniper feeding there. After feeding Juniper some plants, you fast forward a few years. It's mating season and you help a now adult Patchi win over Juniper, despite having to compete with, and then fight a rival. The contest ends when Gorgon appears and kills the rival, allowing Patchi to escape. You then do a quiz and head to the second half of the chapter. You see that Patchi and Juniper have adopted an orphan named Willow, who's father was a now deceased Oak. They cross a river which is filled with hungry Deinosuchus, and you briefly see Gorgon on the far bank. You examine Patchi with an x-ray, and then help Patchi and Juniper free Willow from a muddy swamp and narrowly escape from Gorgon. Gorgon then gets x-rayed by you, and then help Patchi fight Gorgon, driving him away. After doing a second quiz, you see that Patchi, Juniper, and Willow are safe and happy in the herd, and gives a possibility that Patchi and Juniper might eventually have children of their own.
Chapter 2: March of the Titans[edit]
The next dig site that you go to is at Auca Mahuevo, Argentina in South America. The dig goes the same as before, except that the fossils are of eggshells. Assembling the eggs and them hitting them with the hammer makes baby Argentinosaurus hatch. You then travel 85 million years into the late Cretaceous and help a pair of Pterodaustro mate, after that, we help hatch dinosaur babies, including one individual named Storm. You then go forward a couple of years, and end up in a tree where you feed some Argentinosaurus, including an adolescent Storm and his father Thunder. After weighing Storm (two train cars and three buses), you access a panorama where you find some hatching Argentinosaurus eggs, Thunder and Storm, two Pterodaustro, and a pack of Mapusaurus led by an individual named Flint who, after menacing the herd, are driven away by the Argentinosaurus. After a quiz, you go to part two, where you go forward a few years to another panorama where, leading the herd across a desert is a now adult Storm, with an elderly Thunder following behind. After finding some Pterodaustro, Flint and the other Mapusaurus arrive and kill Thunder. You then x-ray Storm, and examine dinosaur droppings to find fossils hidden inside. In another part of the desert you see Storm and his herd. After examining geysers, and finding more Pterodaustro, you help Storm avenge his father by fighting and knocking Flint into a pit, killing him. You examine the changing continents and do a quiz, after which you see Storm and the Argentinosaurus herd driving the remaining Mapusaurus away.
Chapter 3: Terror in the Swamp[edit]
The dig site you are at now is Bone Cabin Quarry at Wyoming. The dig goes as before, except that you now need a saw to clear away mineral coating before you can use the hammer. You assemble a brush. Stegosaurus named Kula and do a quiz about fossils and discovered that one called Megalosaurus was discovered first. You travelled back 152 million years to the late Jurassic period where you see some large dragonflies, a herd of Diplodocus, Kula and his father, who are then spooked and separated by Cactus, a Ceratosaurus. Kula gets examined by you, and after weighing Farallen (a car and four motorbikes), you feed Kula some plants to make her feel better. After doing a quiz, you head to part two, where you find two enormous Diplodocus, an adult Kula and Farallen, some dragonflies and some fish in the lake. The mid-afternoon temperatures rises up rapidly and it draws dinosaurs to watering holes. Farallen is starting to starve, has lost sign of Kula and needs water to cool him off. So while he's drinking, you look around the area for some fact cards. Farallen senses danger nearby, and an Allosaurus arrives. You help Farallen shout out warnings by roaring until the Allosaurus arrives and got driven away by Farallen. The Allosaurus gets x-rayed by you and you go back in time 145 million years ago where you find three Stegosauruses, some dragonflies, Cactus and the Allosaurus. You help Cactus drive the Allosaurus away and the Jurassic lion sinks in the mud. After you do a final quiz, you find a herd of Stegosaurus and an Allosaurus roaring at them.
Chapter 4: The Impenetrable Fortress[edit]
The dig site you are at now is at Mongolia. The dig goes as before, except you need to use something to clear the black tar before you can use the hammer and the brush. You assemble a Tarchia named Rose and travelled back into the Late Cretaceous where you find a Gallimimus, Rose and Fern, a baby Tarchia and a Tarbosaurus on the hunt. The dinosaur herd is having lunch, so while they're eating, you look around for some fact cards. A Protoceratops is playing around with another one, so you keep searching around for predators. You help the Protoceratops wake up a Tarchia by roaring and do a quiz. You help the Protoceratops mate by copying the other's movements. You fast forward a few years and feed the Protoceratops babies. After you do a final quiz, you head to part 2. You go back 70 million years ago again and find some beetles, Rose and some Protoceratops and the Tarbosaurus bataar. Rose gets examined by you and after you weighed her (two boats and a small car), you help a Protoceratops escape the Tarbosaurus and get to Rose. You help Rose defeat the Tarbosaurus and after doing a final quiz, you see Rose and the Protoceratops feeling happy.
Chapter 5: King of the Dragons[edit]
The last dig site you are at now is at Wyoming. The dig goes as before and you assemble a Pachycephalosaurus named Percy. You travel back in time 65 million years ago and Percy win a mate by copying the rival's moments. You access a panorama where you find some Pachycephalosaurus, some Triceratops, a fish and a Tyrannosaurus rex scaring the herd. You research volcanoes and magma and you help Percy escape the Triceratops stampede and the T-rex. After you do a quiz, you head to the second half of the chapter. Here, you access another panorama where you find a Triceratops, Alex, the Alexornis, a volcano, a Pachycephalosaurus and a T-rex on the prowl for his next meal. You help the Pachycephalosaurus defeat the T-rex and find a dinosaur next to a crack which leads to a river of hot lava. The T-Rex gets defeated by the Pachy and is killed in the lava. You help Percy escape the stampede again and a meteorite arrives from space. It smashed into present-day Mexico, making a huge crater. After you do a final quiz, you see Percy and the Pachycephalosaurus herd and the T-Rex and the credits arrive, ending the game.
Reception[edit]
In a joint review with Book of Potions, Telegraph writer Andy Robertson (who also reviewed Diggs Nightcrawler) gave the game a positive review, noting the multiple uses of the Move controller and the quality of the storylines detailing the lives and interactions of different dinosaur species.[2]
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b "Wonderbook gets more Harry Potter, dinosaurs, detectives on Nov. 12". Joystiq. 31 October 2013. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
2.Jump up ^ Robertson, Andy (18 November 2013). "Wonderbook: Book of Potions and Walking with Dinosaurs review - Telegraph". The Telegraph. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
External links[edit]
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Primeval Evolved
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Primeval Evolved
Series Set During Series Three of Primeval
Platform(s) Browser
Release date(s) 
Primeval Evolved was an online game of the ITV series Primeval, produced by ITV1, itv.com, Hoodlum Entertainment and Impossible Pictures.[1] It won the 2010 International Emmy Award for Digital Program: Fiction[2] and nominated for the 2010 BAFTA television award for New Media.[1] A new level was released after each episode of series three[3] and referenced in that week's episode. After a recap of the previous game installment, the player was greeted by a cast member of the fictional Anomaly Research Centre (ARC) and could interact with various items in the home lab.[3] A clue word announced during the end credits helped solve each game, and finishing one week gave the player an entry into a competition to win principal character Nick Cutter's jacket. A game was released the following Monday which usually involved the player helping Eve. There was also an introduction level before the series started and the tenth week featured very little content. The game is no longer online, and there is no other information suggesting a new series of this or any other game when the new series of Primeval airs.


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1 Intro 1.1 Lab Work
1.2 Other
2 Week one 2.1 Lab Work
2.2 Other
2.3 Game: Myth Mapper
3 References

Intro[edit]
Lab Work[edit]
Lester shows the player to their home lab where they meet Connor and Abby. They then receive a mysterious message from Eve, who tells them that they need to help her save the world.
Other[edit]
E-mail: Jenny introduces the new member of staff (the player).
Microscope: human DNA.
Radio: a report that the day before a man had been killed when they were "trampled by an unusually huge hippopotamus".
Sketchbook: smilodon, velociraptor and the future predator.
In-tray: introduction to captain Beaker.
Voicemail: Lester introduces the Player to Connor.
This game is only available in the UK.[4]
Week one[edit]
Lab Work[edit]
Connor and Sarah discuss mythical creatures and Sarah introduces herself.
Other[edit]
E-mail: Connor introduces his video blog.
Microscope: Pristichampsus skin.
Radio: A report covering up the Pristichampsus attack.
Sketch Book: Pristichampsus.
Connors Blog: Secrets from ancient Egypt.
In-tray:Captain becker anticipates delays entering and leaving the ARC due to new security protocols.
Voicemail: Jenny apologises for not meeting the player yet.
Documents: Information on the Loch Ness Monster and Jersey Devil.
Codewords given at the end of episodes:
1: Myth 2: Ghost 3: Cutter 4: Scientist 5: Fungus 6: Beak 7: Dragon 8: Predator 9: Future
Game: Myth Mapper[edit]
Eve asks the player to copy Nick Cutter's experiments by connecting the points on a "Myth Map" without crossing the same path twice.
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b "Television Awards Nominations in 2010". BAFTA. 10 May 2010. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
2.Jump up ^ "Awards - Previous Winners - International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences". International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
3.^ Jump up to: a b "News Item - International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences". International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
4.Jump up ^ Official site geo block ("Sorry, Primeval Evolved is only accessible from the UK.")


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Dinosaur World (video game)
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Dinosaur World
Developer(s) Asylum Entertainment
Publisher(s) BBC
Platform(s) PC Windows
Release date(s) 2002
Genre(s) Life Simulation
Mode(s) Single player
Dinosaur World is a freeware video game developed by Asylum Entertainment and published by the BBC. It is a spin-off of Episode 2 of Walking with Dinosaurs ("Time of the Titans") and the special The Ballad of Big Al. The main point of the game is to find all the animals and plants, including several location features, that are distributed in five different zones.
Gameplay[edit]
The game starts in the beginnings of a dry season at the 'Mossy Plain', where are some adult Diplodocus and Araucaria trees, with the presence of a single dragonfly. From this zone you can go to the 'Desert', to the 'Forest' or to the 'Dry Riverbed' mountain. In the Desert, which is rich in cycads, you'll find a pair of pterosaurs flying, some adolescent Diplodocus that are chased by Al (the Allosaurus from The Ballad of Big Al), who usually kills the smaller one, but is rare that he doesn't, and then later tries to attack one of the larger Diplodocus, but fails to kill it, and Al dies of his injuries. To the south, two Stegosaurus (one dead, trapped in quick sand). In the middle of the Dry Riverbed you can see some dinosaur tracks that are from a hatchling Diplodocus and an Allosaurus; when you arrive at the end of the riverbed you'll find the Allosaurus (female) eating the Diplodocus, apparently she killed him. In the Forest are mainly redwood trees and tree ferns, at first you won't find animals but an Allosaurus nest that is later plundered by an Ornitholestes (not featured, only indicated in the news, however, itis sounds can be heard in the forest, easily identified as the noises of the ornitholestes in Walking with Dinosaurs.) and subsequently noted by an angry mother. The forest has a tunnel, where you can find stalactites, that connects with the 'Crater'. That zone consist mostly of a lake (which is really an underwater crater) surrounded by walls, where are many Bennettitales and like in the Mossy Plain, a sole dragonfly. When you discover all the species and location features, there will be news indicating that a pathway was opened in a Desert cliff. Then, you'll be able to go up, and wait that one of the pterosaurs come close to you for 'tagging him' and fly to a new secret area, the 'Salt Lake'. Another way to get to the Salt Lake is to tag onto the Diplodocus at the edge of the Desert at the farthest distance, untag when you reach the wall, then go along the wall, and you will reach the Salt Lake. This can be done without having found everything in the game.
External links[edit]
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 The main characters of Primeval (Series 5)
 (l-r) Captain Becker, Jess Parker, Matt Anderson, Abby Maitland and Connor Temple
This is a list of characters in the ITV science fiction television series Primeval, including supporting characters.
The series originally features a cast of five main characters plus supporting cast who investigate time anomalies for the British government. The series 1 cast is made up of Douglas Henshall as Professor Nick Cutter, James Murray as Stephen Hart, Andrew-Lee Potts as Connor Temple, Lucy Brown as Claudia Brown and Hannah Spearritt as Abby Maitland, with Juliet Aubrey as Helen Cutter, Ben Miller as James Lester and Mark Wakeling as Captain Tom Ryan.
In the final episode of Series 1, Captain Tom Ryan is killed off, and Claudia Brown disappears. The rest of the cast carries over into Series 2. Lucy Brown plays a new character, Jenny Lewis, a savvy PR person and a doppelgänger of Claudia, but unlike her, she has no romantic attachment to Cutter and resents him referring to her as "Claudia". Karl Theobald as Oliver Leek, Naomi Bentley as Caroline Steel and Tim Faraday as "The Cleaner" support.
Stephen Hart and Oliver Leek are killed off in the final episode of Series 2, and Caroline Steel leaves. Series 3 sees the introduction of Laila Rouass as Sarah Page, Ben Mansfield as Captain Becker and Jason Flemyng as Danny Quinn. In the third episode Nick Cutter is killed, with Danny Quinn replacing him as team leader. Jenny Lewis leaves two episodes later (returning for the penultimate episode of Series 4); and in the finale of Series 3, Helen Cutter is knocked off a cliff by a Raptor.
Sarah Page was killed offscreen prior to Series 4, and Danny Quinn returned only in the finale of Series 4. Joining the cast was Ciarán McMenamin as Matt Anderson, the new team leader, Ruth Kearney as Jess Parker, team coordinator, Alexander Siddig as Philip Burton, an industrialist who is put in charge of the ARC, Anton Lesser as Gideon, Ruth Bradley as Emily Merchant and Jonathyn Byrne as Ethan Dobrowski.
The Series 4 line-up returned for Series 5 with the exception of Gideon and Ethan Dobrowski. They were joined by Janice Byrne as April Leonard, Philip Burton's assistant. At the end of Series 5, the only original cast members remaining were Andrew-Lee Potts, Hannah Spearritt and Ben Miller.
Character appearances[edit]

Character name
Actor
First appearance
Last appearance

Nick Cutter Douglas Henshall 1.1 3.3
Stephen Hart James Murray 1.1 2.7
Helen Cutter Juliet Aubrey 1.1 3.10
Connor Temple Andrew Lee Potts 1.1 5.6
Abby Maitland Hannah Spearritt 1.1 5.6
Claudia Brown Lucy Brown 1.1 1.6
James Lester Ben Miller 1.1 5.6
Captain Tom Ryan Mark Wakeling 1.1 1.6
Tom Jake Curran 1.2 1.4
Duncan James Bradshaw 1.2 4.2
Oliver Leek Karl Theobald 2.1 2.7
Jenny Lewis Lucy Brown 2.1 4.6
The Cleaner Tim Faraday 2.1 3.3
Caroline Steel Naomi Bentley 2.2 2.7
Mick Harper Ramon Tikaram 2.6 3.4
Captain Hilary Becker Ben Mansfield 3.1 5.6
Sarah Page Laila Rouass 3.1 3.10
Christine Johnson Belinda Stewart-Wilson 3.1 3.9
Danny Quinn Jason Flemyng 3.2 4.7
Katherine Kavanagh Ruth Gemmell 3.3 3.4
Captain Wilder Alex McSweeney 3.4 3.9
Jack Maitland Robert Daniel Lowe 3.4 3.8
Matt Anderson Ciarán McMenamin 4.1 5.6
Jess Parker Ruth Kearney 4.1 5.6
Philip Burton Alexander Siddig 4.1 5.6
Gideon Anton Lesser 4.1 4.6
Emily Merchant Ruth Bradley 4.3 5.6
Ethan Dobrowski Jonathyn Byrne 4.3 4.7
April Leonard Janice Byrne 5.1 5.5

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Matt Anderson[edit]

Mathew Anderson

First appearance
Episode 4.1
Portrayed by
Ciarán McMenamin
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Gender
male
Occupation
Team Leader
Significant other(s)
Emily Merchant (love interest)
Relatives
Gideon (father, deceased)
Nationality
Irish (possible in the future)
Mathew Anderson is portrayed by Ciarán McMenamin. He is a private man who guards the secrets of his past and the reason he has joined the ARC team. He is an ex-soldier and a zoologist, and can understand animal behaviour, demonstrating this ability in his first appearance by securing the escaped Dracorex inside of Lester's office by luring it with a water dispenser, as the dinosaur was thirsty.
He and Becker get along well enough, but neither misses the opportunity to make remarks of the other. In episode 4.2 Matt is unsure of Abby and Connor when they first return, and follows Abby out of suspicion, but this brings him to save both of their lives from a Kaprosuchus before he comes to accept them. In episode 4.3 a mysterious woman goes through an Anomaly, Matt went after her because he assumed she was from the present, but upon returning her learnt that Emily was from the Victorian era and had been living with other people throughout time. He was sympathetic towards her and kept her in his flat because he believed the ARC would treat her like a criminal and agrees to help her find her companion Ethan. But while he is dealing with another Anomaly she is kidnapped by Ethan so he goes to Lester, who helps him track her down and saves her life when she was trapped inside a coffin. In episode 4.6 he takes Emily to the anomaly site and admits to her that a disaster is going to happen because of the anomalies. He later saw Gideon, who was on the verge of death, and promised to use Emily as bait to catch Ethan since they suspected he was involved. As he died Matt wept and told Emily that Gideon was his father. In episode 4.7, he realises Ethan, in fact Danny Quinn's brother Patrick, is not involved as he and Gideon suspected. In the end he tells Emily that he is from the future, explaining that in his time everyone lives underground because the Earth is sterile and cannot support life. He and his father, Gideon, were sent back in time to help prevent that future from happening. At some point between the present time and Matt's time, an "event" happened which changed the way Anomalies appear and their effect on the Earth, making it a barren wasteland. At the end of the episode, he convinces Emily to return to 1867 so that he can focus on stopping "the event".
In episode 5.1, he is caught by Abby trying to hack into Connor's computer to find out what he and Philip are up to. After showing his knowledge of the large burrowing insects from the future, Abby realised he was from the future and he asked for her to help in his mission. In 5.3 he goes to Victorian London to capture a raptor they sent through the anomaly, telling Abby to steal data from Connor in the meantime, and encounters Emily again. Having earlier learned that she would end up in an asylum because of her husband Henry, he attempted to convince her to come back to the present as he regretted telling her to go, and was thankful to Abby when she handed over a copy of Connor's hard drive. He wasn't happy when Connor opened his own anomaly in the ARC during episode 5.4, and worked with Connor to eradicate a swarm of Future Beetles. In episode 5.5 he explains his mission to the whole team, and after bringing down a Tyrannosaurus he heads to New Dawn to stop Philip, only to be restrained as Philip activated his anomaly. In episode 5.6 he rescues Connor from the future, and risks himself to close the anomaly. He somehow manages to survive the implosion and returns to the ARC. However he is confronted by another version of himself who tells him to return to his home.

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Captain Becker[edit]

Captain Hilary James Becker

First appearance
Episode 3.1
Portrayed by
Ben Mansfield
Information

Gender
Male
Occupation
Special Ops Captain
Captain Hilary James Becker is portrayed by Ben Mansfield. According to Tim Haines, "he is going to be a new military guy who comes onto the team to watch their backs so that none of them gets eaten". Becker hails from a military family and background, and is moved from special operations to the Primeval team. Mansfield has stated that he will have "amiable friction" with Connor and he sees himself as the person who "looks after" the team.
James Lester assigned him to join the team in episode 3.1. Becker assisted the team in returning creatures, such as the Pristichampus and Diictodon, back home, and began to become more involved in the action when a Giganotosaurus and a fungus from the future appeared. He often questioned Danny Quinn's judgement, but was nevertheless loyal and obeys orders, even if he disagrees with them. In episode 3.6 he appeared to be working with Christine Johnson after she took control the ARC from Lester, but this was later revealed to be a ploy between him and Lester to bring Johnson down. He helped Abby rescue the Dracorex in episode 3.7, and accompanied the team into the future in episode 3.8 (almost dying in a fight against a pack of Future Predators) in order to keep them safe. In episode 3.10 he and Sarah fought the Megopteran in the present day, and as a result was one of only three main cast members to be in the present at the end of Series 3 (the others being Sarah and Lester).
At the beginning of Series 4, Becker is still working for the ARC, despite wishing to resign before Lester convinced him to stay. It is shown in a prologue webisode that Becker went with Sarah to the future to try find Abby, Connor and Danny, during which Sarah was killed. This has left Becker shaken, feeling that Sarah's death was his fault. He did not get along with Matt at first but slowly came to accept him. He is friendly with Jess, but is unaware she has feelings for him. After having one of Matt's EMD weapons used on him to test their capabilities, Becker agrees to use them. He is greatly relieved when Abby and Connor return, jokingly asking if they bought him a souvenir. In episode 4.3 he is adamant about enforcing the new policy to not allow any expeditions through the anomaly when Matt is missing and finally relents, but blames him when Arboreal Raptors cause trouble later. In episode 4.4 he is bitten by a Therocephalian and poisoned by its venom, but recovers and is forced to go on sick leave. In episode 4.6 he searches for the psychopath Ethan Dobrowski who is causing problems for the ARC and gets caught in a trap rigged up to a bomb, but Jess saves him. In episode 4.7 he attempts to stop Ethan (Danny's brother Patrick) but is shot twice by an EMD, with his fate unrevealed.
In episode 5.1 it is shown that Becker did recover, and at one point was thrilled at the idea of being able to call in a tank if necessary. He allows Matt to go through an anomaly after accidentally sending a raptor to Victorian London, citing they had to make it right in episode 5.3. During 5.4 his fondness for Jess is more clearly shown when she has an allergic reaction to a Future Beetle bite and desperately tried to help her. He risked himself to radiation from a gamma ray after the beetles were killed, and though he found Jess some adrenaline, he made an excuse to leave. In the next episode he helped the rest of the ARC deal with several anomaly incursions, though was cut off at his last one. In the series finale he joins the others in trying to stop Philip's anomaly.
Mansfield was spotted for the role when auditioning for the future BBC series Merlin, the casting director (who also works as the casting director for Primeval) suggested that he come along to audition for Captain Becker.

Claudia Brown[edit]

Claudia Brown

First appearance
Episode 1.1
Last appearance
Episode 1.6
Portrayed by
Lucy Brown
Information

Gender
Female
Occupation
Home Office official
Claudia Brown is played by Lucy Brown. According to the official Primeval website, Claudia Brown, (born in Oxford) joined the Civil Service after studying law at university. For two years, she was engaged to be married, but she broke it off a month before the wedding. She has had no significant relationships since. She has fallen in love with Nick Cutter after he defended her from the "flying lizards".
Much like Lester, her official role at the Home Office is unclear. Since the discovery of the first anomaly, she has worked alongside Nick Cutter and his team, acting as a liaison with the Home Office and occasionally defending Cutter's actions to Lester, and vice versa, but is often stressed out by Cutter's methods and secrets. She is not happy when she learns Cutter's missing wife Helen is alive and that he knew, since she could give them vital information. Claudia is in love with Nick Cutter with whom she shares a passionate kiss during episode 1.5. In episode 1.6, Claudia jokingly accuses Cutter of sexual harassment, noting that it is a serious offence in the civil service. She began hallucinating, seeing anomalies and Gorgonopsid throughout the Home Office, foreshadowing her fate.
When Cutter and Helen started to leave, she asked him not to go as she thought it was a mistake, but he assured her that it would be okay. She and Cutter then exchanged another kiss in front of Helen and the rest of the team, and rebuffed Lester's note of it being unprofessional. When Cutter returns from the past via an anomaly, Claudia has vanished and none of his colleagues have any knowledge of who she is or was, leading Cutter to believe that something he has done in the past has altered the present, eliminating Claudia's existence. The reason for her disappearance is not yet known, though probably due to the remaining Future Predators that managed to escape the Gorgonopsid. Cutter is devastated by this, describing Claudia to co-worker Abby as "important to him" and saying he cared about her. Her non-existence shakes his foundation to the core as she is the first woman he had loved in his life since the disappearance of his wife, Helen.
Claudia remained out of existence for the second series, although another woman who appears to be physically identical, Jenny Lewis, first appears in episode 2.1. At the end of episode 2.2, Cutter explains to Jenny as best he can about what could have happened to change the past. Claudia's job as Lester's assistant was changed to a man named Oliver Leek, who was revealed to be working for Helen Cutter. It was implied that Helen was responsible for Claudia being replaced by Jenny, however Helen denies it. At the end of the finale, Cutter shreds Claudia's picture (although in Series 3 it is revealed that he repaired part of it). The writers alluded to Claudia's possible return in the future, but said that they had no plans at the time to rewrite Claudia into the timeline.

Philip Burton[edit]

Philip Burton

First appearance
Episode 4.1
Last appearance
Episode 5.6
Portrayed by
. Alexander Siddig
Information

Gender
Male
Occupation
CEO, scientist
Philip Burton is portrayed by Alexander Siddig. As a result of the last mission of the old ARC, he appears in a new public/private partnership with the government, making him Lester's boss after the minister. His company, Prospero Industries, is used as the new location for the new ARC. Philip is more interested by the Anomalies than the creatures. There is a secret project he is working on called New Dawn.
Neither Lester, Abby or Matt trust him, but Connor admits he is like a groupie to Philip. In episode 4.1 he debriefs Abby and Connor when they return and tells them they no longer have field positions, but in the next episode Lester rehires them despite his objections. In episode 4.3 he has Connor do minor work in the ARC to spite him after he was placed back on the team, but is thankful when Connor saves him from dying and sees his true potential. In episode 4.4 he attempts to have the creatures in the ARC killed because of their inconvenience, but Lester blackmails him in dropping the matter. In episode 4.5 he recruits Connor to head up his own team of anomaly researchers after they discover vital new data. In episode 4.7, Danny Quinn confronts Philip about knowing Helen Cutter and doing research with her after finding his name on a document on her body, and despite denying this all he is clearly agitated. Connor later tells Philip about a potential disaster to be caused by the anomalies; Philip assures him they will solve the issue themselves and do not need to tell the others.
In episode 5.1, he shows Connor his project 'New Dawn,' with which he plans to use the anomalies as an energy source to provide the whole world with free, clean energy. He also gives Connor a lab assistant, April Leonard. He also told Connor about Danny's knowledge of him and Helen, though he convinced him that she only knew of Philip. In 5.4 he witnesses Connor's man-made anomaly and Prospero gains much information from it. He was prepared to sacrifice the lives of the team to keep New Dawn from being compromised by blowing up the ARC during a Future Beetle incursion, though this fails, and it was shown he had built a larger version of Connor's device. In episode 5.5 he abandons Connor when their car is attacked by a Kaprosuchus, and activates the New Dawn machine, creating a huge anomaly, ignoring Matt's desperate protests. In episode 5.6 the anomaly becomes unstable and he realises that Matt was right and that it is a threat to humanity, with Helen having tricked him into it. He sacrifices himself in an attempt to destroy the New Dawn installation, but the anomaly became self-sustaining and remained.

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The Cleaner[edit]

The Cleaner

First appearance
episode 2.1
Last appearance
episode 3.2
Portrayed by
Tim Faraday
Information

Gender
Male
Occupation
Mercenary
Relatives
Numerous clones
"The Cleaner" is a character who is portrayed by Tim Faraday.
He is introduced in episode 2.1, under-cover as a cleaner in a mall, who was sliced in the neck by a baby Deinonychus. He later mysteriously disappears. Later in episode 2.2, Connor sees him as a soldier at the ARC, the scars from the raptor attack still visible. The mysterious cleaner is seen again by Cutter in episode 2.4. Suspicious, he chases him, but is punched in the face by him, knocking him out. Later it is revealed that the man is working for Oliver Leek, who wants the team spied on — and Leek is working in cahoots with Helen Cutter. It is also revealed that the Cleaner's real name (or at least his surname) is Sciswell. In episode 2.5, he goes into an anomaly with two soldiers. When one of them protests about leaving a girl behind, the man responds, "I'm not a bloody social worker!". A similar line was previously used by Captain Tom Ryan in episode 1.6 before his death, possibly linking the two characters together. He travels through an anomaly into the Silurian where his team is attacked and killed by giant scorpions. Only he survives, injured, and left only with a gun. He finds Cutter, demanding him to hand over his water supplies, but is then attacked by another scorpion, being dragged off, yelling "I'm a professional. I don't talk. Ever" when he was asked who he worked for before being pulled under and killed.
However, at the end of episode 2.7 many clones of him appear with Helen at Stephen Hart's grave, presumably working for her. These clones would be revealed as the result of technology that Helen acquired from the future, though lack any real independent thought like the original and are programmed to obey her every command even if it meant killing themselves. The clones re-appear in Series 3 and make an appearance at the conclusion of episode 3.1. One clone is killed in episode 3.2 while spying inside the ARC. Another dies when Helen orders him to jump off the roof of a tall building to test the clones' programmed loyalty, and many clones are killed when the ARC explodes.

Helen Cutter[edit]

Helen Cutter

First appearance
Episode 1.1
Last appearance
Episode 3.10
Portrayed by
Juliet Aubrey
Information

Gender
Female
Occupation
Professor of at Central Metropolitan University
Title
Professor
Spouse(s)
Nick Cutter (estranged and deceased husband)
Professor Helen Cutter is played by Juliet Aubrey. It is implied that she may be responsible for a string of anomalies in time and space through which prehistoric and extinct animals are passing. At the very least, she clearly has an understanding of the phenomenon which exceeds that of any other character in the series and is able to use the anomalies for her own purposes, ranging from basic time travel and exploration to actively changing timelines and creating clones.
Before her disappearance, Helen had an affair with Stephen Hart, Nick Cutter's best friend and right-hand man. She led Nick to believe she was dead after passing through an anomaly eight years before the beginning of the series. She appears to have knowledge of most of the threats facing her husband and his team, but does not appear to wish to divulge this information. However, she did save the life of one of the members of Nick's team when piranha-like Anurognathus attacked. She is thought by the Home Office to hold clues into why the anomalies form, and is therefore one of the focuses of attention in the storyline. Helen Cutter has told Nick that she does know a fair amount about the anomalies, but has so far refused to divulge this information. Nick Cutter, her ex-husband, also has a personal wish for her to return, and for her to stop escaping. She also seems to disapprove of her husband's budding relationship with Claudia Brown and it is hinted she may have had a hand in Claudia's disappearance.
At the end of episode 2.4, Helen is shown directing the team that is spying on the ARC members. During episode 2.5, Helen visits Stephen again and imparts some information about the group spying on the ARC members, but states it in a way to make it sound like Cutter is involved and Lester is in charge. In episode 2.6 Helen starts showing her feelings about Stephen and they share a passionate kiss and is revealed to be working with Oliver Leek in attempting to experiment on the anomalies to see how they affect the future. In episode 2.7 she eavesdrops on a conversation in Nick's cell to Jenny about how Nick still cared for Helen. Although this is later revealed to be a ploy on Cutter's part, Helen still believes that he does care for her. She was aware of Claudia in the time before the change and denies being behind it. Despite being shown as the brains of the operation, Leek begins to challenge Helen and when their creatures are released, she calls Stephen and lies to him saying that she was kidnapped by Lester and that Cutter was killed. She asked Stephen to rescue her and not to trust Lester. When Stephen arrives, she attempts to convince him to leave into the Anomalies until it is safe but he is determined for revenge. He encounters Nick and learns that Helen lied to him. Stephen, Helen and Nick work to contain the predators contained in Leek's base by luring them into the centre where the cages are located by ringing the bell that they associated with feeding time, to trap the creatures together so they will kill each other but Stephen is killed. Helen appears at Stephen's gravesite shortly after his funeral and states that the timeline can change, at which point several duplicates of "The Cleaner" appear, the result of her obtaining future cloning technology to create loyal minions.
In episode 3.1 she is seen in a future time period stealing an artefact from Christine Johnson's military force and barely escapes with her life as predators are in the building. At the conclusion of the episode, Helen sets up an operational headquarters in the present day, assisted by the clones. In episode 3.3, after taking ARC with her clones, she attempts to explain herself to Nick that she can prevent future atrocities (such as the rise of the Future Predators) by actively altering timelines in the past so that evolution and history take a different path. Nick rejects this, insisting that Helen has no right to meddle. Helen also seems to believe that Nick's work with the ARC is in some way responsible for the atrocities she has seen in the future and thus intended to kill him in order to avoid it once he translates the artefact for her. She is caught in the blast from the bomb in the ARC and Nick returns to rescue her only for her to shoot him and leave him to die. Donning the alias of Eve (played by Kate Magowan), she uses Danny to get into the new ARC headquarters to regain the artefact, now believing that the only means to ensure the Future Predators' timeline never occurs is by negating humanity itself. She attempts to do this in the finale of Series 3 and is responsible for the death of the so-called "First Family". She briefly confronts Danny Quinn in the Pliocene, stating that when humanity is gone, other species will be able to develop in peace with no war or pollution. Helen is killed by a raptor before she can complete her mission.
Her presence is still felt strongly in the fourth series, as the ARC team speculate her fate; when Danny returns in the finale, he confirms that Helen is dead 'as a dodo' to Lester, who responds happily: "Excellent". Danny also tells Matt and Emily that Helen and Philip Burton worked together studying the anomalies, and that Burton is not to be trusted. In the fifth series, Connor discovered an audio of Helen encouraging Philip to find a way to make the future better by using the anomalies. However in the series finale Philip realised Helen had tricked him by stroking his ego, having intended for his attempt at making green energy with the anomalies to wipe out humans much like her later plan, likely done in case she failed in her attempt to wipe out early humans.

Nick Cutter[edit]

Nick Cutter

First appearance
Episode 1.1
Last appearance
Episode 3.3
Portrayed by
Douglas Henshall
Information

Gender
Male
Occupation
Professor of Palaeozoology at Central Metropolitan University
 Anomaly team member
Title
Professor
Spouse(s)
Helen Cutter (estranged and deceased wife)
Professor Nick Cutter is played by Douglas Henshall. He is a Professor of Palaeozoology at the (fictional) Central Metropolitan University. He was one of a group of people who discover that prehistoric and extinct animals are passing through anomalies in time and space. Due to his expertise in prehistoric creatures, he was assigned to tackling the problems these creatures cause for the present civilisation by the Home Office, and was described as a "rank amateur who was amazingly good at what he did". Cutter is an expert in Palaeontology and the identification of extinct species. While little is known about his early life, the Official site states that he was born in Edinburgh and graduated from his year at University College London with First Class Honours. At some point he met and quickly married his wife Helen. Their marriage proved to be a failure, however, as according to Douglas Henshall's web site, the relationship between them became as stormy as it was passionate. They were estranged at the time of her disappearance, and this added to Nick's sense of guilt when she vanished. When the series begins it is established that he had a wife, fellow palaeontologist Helen Cutter, who went missing eight years prior to his first encounter with a time anomaly. He tells the others that she went missing sometime after the two of them had a fight.
At first, his insistence that his wife Helen is alive in the first two and a half episodes is seen by some members of the time as initially somewhat foolish and unrealistic, most notably Claudia. He then keeps the details of her visitations to himself, out of hurt pride that his wife could have left him alone for so long.[1] This has terrible consequences later when the government found out. When the truth is known, not only does he lose the respect of Claudia but also brings the wrath of Lester down on himself. After being tricked into leading Lester's troops to his wife the relationship between the two of them hit a new low as she is adamant that he had set her up and he finally lost patience with her evasions and riddles. She later escapes, and his motives for trying to follow her through the Anomaly are open to question.[2]
Nick started out as a somewhat aloof individual; for example he initially rather briskly brushes off Connor Temple who comes to him with suspicions of a prehistoric creature being loose in modern times, telling him to go and get a girlfriend instead. He also keeps his encounter with his long lost wife, Helen to himself. He can be quite spiteful at times as his last words to Stephen before heading through the anomaly in episode 1.6 are to push Lester through the nastiest anomaly he can find if he does not make it back. He withholds information from his friends and team mates and Connor notes in episode 1.1 that he never turns up for his own seminars. He also tries to make demands of Lester in episode 1.3[3] he is ordered to bring Helen back only to be shocked when Lester overrules his decision and brings his wife back by force. Nick's attitude towards the Home Office involvement was at first one of mild contempt, at least for the more bureaucratic members such as James Lester. He dislikes hiding things from the public, Helen says she thinks he wants to share the time anomalies with the rest of the world in episode 1.3.
However Nick is not uncompassionate, and he has mellowed out over time. He's developed a grudging respect for Lester, despite his claims to the contrary, and his caring side is shown when he reassures Connor on several occasions, most notably when Connor's friend is killed by a parasite. He was also very trusting of Helen, despite her comments and the others' suspicions that she may have intentionally set the parasitic Dodos on mankind in episode 1.4,[2] although he was angry to discover Helen's real reason for returning the baby Future Predators to their own time. After that, it's safe to assume whatever feelings he had left for her are now over. His relationship with Claudia Brown was beginning to turn to romantic, as demonstrated when he rushes to her rescue and later kisses her in episode 1.5 and she begs him not to leave her.[4] Before heading into the anomaly, the two share a passionate kiss – much to Helen's anger. After the catastrophic mission to the permian he returns to learn Helen and Stephen had had an affair and that Claudia no longer exists.
Due to alterations in the timeline, the cause of which is unknown, Nick remains one of two of the only currently identified characters (The second being Helen) to remain unaffected for reasons that are unknown. Nick himself is confused as to how this happened.[5] Nick also immediately calls new P.R. guru Jennifer Lewis Claudia Brown after her doppelgänger. This confuses the team a lot, and while Connor and Abby both show some sort of support they find it hard to accept what he is saying. Stephen and Nick are now both quietly cautious of one another after the revelation of the affair and are no longer in full agreement of their methods. Nick is not happy when he learns Stephen and Helen have been seeing each other in secret and punches him, showing he still has some feelings for Helen. In the series finale he learned Helen was working with traitor Oliver Leek on anomaly research and acts out that he still cares about Helen but instead reveals he's going to turn her over to Lester before she escapes. He frees Leek's Future Predators and when he meets up with Helen and Stephen they agree to put an end to the predators Leek's captured. He is willing to sacrifice himself to save others but he is punched by Stephen, who takes his place inside the predator-filled room. Stephen asks Nick to tell Connor and Abby to stay out of trouble, and is then killed. Having spent some time trying to get to know Jenny and learning she has a fiancé, but it is revealed they broke up and asked Cutter out for a drink but they were called away to an anomaly. Nick shreds the picture of Claudia Brown at the end of the episode, showing he's decided to move on.
In Series Three, Nick begins creating a matrix to predict anomalies with the help of Sarah Page after learning mythical beasts may be linked to anomalies and successfully predicts one. He also saw the Cleaner again despite witnessing his apparent death and realises Helen's back. In episode 3.3 he helps deliver a baby while trapped in a hospital room. When they return to the ARC he learns Helen created a clone in his image to take over the ARC. He learns of her intent to alter the timeline by killing him after learning he ordered the cloning of Future Predators in the ARC sometime in the future, but only once he translates the strange artefact from the future she possesses. Nick attempts to stall her until his friends neutralise the Cleaner clones, forcing Helen to order the Nick Clone to detonate a bomb in spite of the original's attempt to talk him out of it. Nick attempts to save Helen as the ARC goes up in flames, hiding the artefact from her, but she shoots him in the chest after saying the future was more important than he was and ran off. Connor then attempts to save Nick, but when he arrives, he is told to sit down and wait. As they are talking, Nick asks Connor to tell Jenny/Claudia something but, decides against it. Giving Connor the artefact, Nick charges him, as his dying wish, to find out what the artefact is, before dying on Connor's shoulder.[3] Despite his death, the future did not change as Helen thought because he was not going to be the real reason the Future Predators appeared.
Douglas Henshall confirmed in TV Times that he would be leaving the show at the end of Series Three, quoting: "It was one of those things that happened and I thought, 'Oh God, I've done it. I've left', he told David Hollingsworth. "The show might miss me for five minutes, but then I think it will move on and be fine." "There's a little bit of me that thinks, 'this is my show, what do you mean they're still doing it without me," he says. "But it will be good for Primeval in the long term – it will have to reinvent itself."

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Ethan Dobrowski[edit]

Ethan Dobrowski
 (Patrick Quinn)

First appearance
Episode 4.3
Last appearance
Episode 4.7
Portrayed by
Jonathan Byrne
Information

Gender
Male
Significant other(s)
Charlotte Cameron
Relatives
Danny Quinn (brother)
Nationality
English
Ethan Dobrowski, or Patrick Quinn as his original name, is a character played by Jonathyn Byrne.
Patrick Quinn was fourteen years old when he and two of his friends broke into a house, however they were caught off guard by a camouflage beast that had come through an anomaly, and Patrick's body was never found along with another one of his friends. Though presumed dead, and while his brother Danny spent years trying to find out what had happened to him, he had actually survived and gone through the anomaly to some point in the future. He is known to have killed several camouflage beasts in order to survive, and was left mentally damaged by the experience. At some point he discovered another anomaly which took him to the year 1902 where he took the name Ethan Dobrowski, and people assumed he was originally from Russia. He killed six people, gaining a police record, and eventually left through another anomaly. At some point he joined a group of time travellers along with Emily Merchant and Charlotte Cameron. He became close to Charlotte, and she was able to calm him, as he was noticeably different from the other members of the group.
When Charlotte was sick Ethan accompanied her and Emily to find an anomaly leading to a place with medicine, and arrived in the present, but she died. Angered over her death, Ethan blamed Emily as he believed her rules had caused them to be too late. He soon followed Emily and took up residence across from Matt Anderson's flat, and when he left Ethan kidnapped her. In episode 4.5 he had decided that as the only two to have known Charlotte, they were going to have their own funeral. He drove them to a cemetery where he told Emily he also blamed his family for what had happened to him and was going to make them suffer, and bound and gagged Emily inside a coffin before he fled from Matt. During episode 4.6, and after laying a trap for anyone who might come looking for him in the flat, went to his old home to find that a neighbour recognised him and claimed to be someone else before leaving. In episode 4.7, while attempting to leave through another anomaly, he was caught after he encountered his brother Danny, revealing to everyone that he was Patrick. Captured and taken to the ARC, he told Danny what had happened to make him disappear, but said he was unhappy in the modern era, and escaped, taking the still-alive Emily as a hostage. Before he went through an anomaly to the Pliocene he ignored Emily's attempts to get him to stop, and left her at the mercy of a terror bird. He was soon followed by Danny, who wanted to keep him from hurting anyone else.

Duncan[edit]

Duncan

First appearance
Episode 1.2
Last appearance
Episode 4.2
Portrayed by
James Bradshaw
Information

Gender
Male
Duncan (James Bradshaw) is a friend of Connor Temple and Tom and a fellow geek. He also seems to enjoy conspiracy theories. Despite this he does not believe Connor when he tries to tell him and Tom what he has been involved in without breaking the Official Secrets Act,[1] and he and Duncan devise their own conspiracy theories around the Dodo (which he names Dodie) that they capture.[2] Duncan seems to be the more mellow of Connor's friends and is quite willing to follow the more proactive Tom.
Duncan returned in episode 4.2, having gone into hiding for four years since Tom's death and finding proof of creature attacks for himself since no one believed him. He lead Connor to the docks where homeless people had been going missing, and with Abby they discovered the Kaprosuchus that had been living there for years. After being chased into a maze of containers where the creature pursued him until it was killed, Connor returned him home, and asked that if he came across more creature reports that he tell him.

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Gideon[edit]

Gideon

First appearance
Episode 4.1
Last appearance
Episode 4.6
Portrayed by
Anton Lesser
Information

Gender
Male
Children
Matt Anderson
Gideon is portrayed by Anton Lesser.
Throughout the beginning of the fourth series it is implied that he and Matt Anderson were working on a secret mission involving the ARC. He seemed desperate that they achieve their goal, warning Matt to keep an eye on the other members of the ARC and be wary of everyone, particularly Abby and Connor when they returned after a year in the Cretaceous. In episode 4.3 he is revealed to be dying because of an undisclosed illness, but had accepted his fate and wanted Matt to forget about him as he wasn't important. He wasn't happy in 4.5 when Matt risked everything to rescue Emily Merchant from Ethan Dobrowski, and Gideon feared that Ethan was connected to their mission, and ordered Matt to use Emily as bait. By episode 4.6 he is close to death, and apologises to Matt for not allowing him to get close to anyone, as it was for everyone's own good, and before he died he asked Matt to complete their mission. Matt then revealed to Emily that Gideon was his father. In 4.7 it is revealed that he has travelled back in time from a sterile future Earth in order to prevent this future from happening.

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Mick Harper[edit]

Mick Harper

First appearance
Episode 2.6
Last appearance
Episode 3.4
Portrayed by
Ramon Tikaram
Information

Gender
Male
Occupation
Journalist
Mick Harper is a journalist who is played by Ramon Tikaram. He first appears in episode 2.6, trying to interview a survivor of a Columbian mammoth's rampage on the M25. Like everyone else he had been told it was an elephant, unaware that the creature was actually a mammoth. He was unable to complete the interview because Jenny disrupted him. She used a sarcastic tone about it being a mammoth to throw him off, but Mick suspected there was more to the operation, and vowed to find out what was going on.
In episode 3.3, Mick convinced his boss, Katherine Kavanagh, to give him a chance to prove prehistoric creatures were alive in the present, and attempted to have Jenny tell him after tracking down her home, but she refused to comment. He followed the team to a hospital, and locked Nick, Abby and a pregnant woman in an operating theatre. He then found one of the Diictodons, taking a blurry picture which he showed Katherine, who thought he was playing games with her, but was allowed one last chance. In episode 3.4 Mick stole an anomaly detector from Jenny's car and presented it to Katherine as it went off, and they decided to go to the location on it with a camera crew. At the airport site they found an anomaly, and Mick locked Jenny and Connor in another hangar after tricking them into believing they were attacked elsewhere. Mick and others filmed a juvenile velociraptor that comes through the anomaly while Nigel Marvin described it to them. A Giganotosaurus came through the anomaly and attacked, and the car Mick and Katherine hid in was flipped over. Danny and Connor pulled them out and both were locked in the other hangar as they were under arrest. Mick agreed to force the door open once Katherine agreed to give him a fair share of the merchandising once they had broke the story. They grabbed a camera to film the crisis, and Mick quit when Danny nearly hit him with a helicopter. Katherine frantically filmed the Giganotosaurus as it was heading towards the anomaly, and inadvertently pushed Mick backwards through the anomaly, where they are presumably killed as Mick is heard screaming.

Stephen Hart[edit]

Stephen James Hart

First appearance
Episode 1.1
Last appearance
Episode 2.7
Portrayed by
James Murray
Information

Gender
Male
Occupation
Lab technician
Significant other(s)
Alison (ex-girlfriend), Helen Cutter (ex-lover)
Children
none
Relatives
unknown
Nationality
English
Stephen James Hart is played by James Murray. He is part of a team of five people, who investigate a series of anomalies in space and time through which prehistoric and extinct creatures are travelling. Stephen is Nick Cutter's lab technician and "right hand man". During the first series he was the object of fellow team member Abby Maitland's affections. He did not return her affections.
According to the official site Stephen is passionately committed to wildlife conservation and firmly believes that humanity is destroying its own environment through unchecked industrialisation. On average, he runs about 30 miles a week.
He remains a cold and aloof individual, but one with surprisingly loyal and brave tendencies as he willingly braves the jaws of a Gorgonopsid[6] and an Arthropleura[1] in order to save his friends and innocent bystanders. He is also not afraid to stand up to Cutter as he confronts him about the way he withheld information about his wife from them. In episode 1.2, Cutter risks his life to get an anti-venom which will save Stephen's life.
While he tries not to show any emotion and keep his personal life secret, he does ask Abby out for dinner[1] and later admitted that he has a girlfriend although their relationship appears to have broken down[3] and the official site states that he "had his heart broken when he fell in love as a student and never really got over it."
In the first series, Stephen seemed to act as a punchbag for the monsters, often being badly injured or stranded on his own. He also seems to have a big brother relationship with Connor whom he constantly puts down and yet looks out for at the same time.[3] In episode 2.7, Stephen is killed by a collection of animals that Leek had captured. He was killed preventing the animals from escape, and his funeral was the only one in the history of the show. It is revealed that his middle name is James.
According to the official site, Stephen was once a junior fencing champion and also a junior shooting Olympic prospect. He later gave up both to study natural history. He appears to have had a long relationship with Nick Cutter going back at least eight years as he states that he knew Helen himself, in the last episode it is revealed that he had an affair with her.[1] Whether or not she is the former girlfriend who broke his heart is unclear but it is shown in episode 1.6 that it was a short lived affair which he has regretted ever since, mainly because of his guilt over betraying his friend and partly because Helen is, as he calls her, "a real bitch".
When the series begins it is established that he is working alongside Nick as a teacher and lab assistant. He later follows both Nick and Connor and becomes ensnared with them in the sinister events unfolding in the Forest of Dean.[1] He then reveals that he has some training as a tracker and in stealth combat, as he vanishes under Connor's nose to begin the hunt for the Gorgonopsid personally. He later tracks it to a school and is wounded trying to lure it away from a teacher and her student.[1] Of Nick's team members, he is the most proficient with armed weapons and is usually the one armed with the tranquiliser rifle.
When brought into the anomaly team, he is then sent to the underground vaults and bunkers beneath Parsons Green Station. He is then attacked, poisoned and left for dead by an Arthroplura[1] while trying to find Cutter. It is during this time he is visited by Helen, although she also left him for dead, she gave him a message for her husband. He later remembers nothing of the incident, however. Subsequently his memory returns, he confronts Cutter and is angered by his unconcern for his wife, stating that if she was his wife he would have gone looking for her. He later helps prepare Cutter for his trip into the underwater anomaly, arming him with a spear gun. He also tries to make amends with Abby for asking her out and then forgetting about it.[3]
He once again proves his concern for her welfare when he runs to her rescue in episode 1.4 when she is captured by Connor's parasite-ridden friend.[2] However Claudia (who is also angry for his running into trouble in the subway) and Lester appear to have lost patience with him during the hunt for the Pteranodon.[4]
Stephen appears to have undergone the least change of all the characters since the alterations in the timeline, with most of his history remaining the same including his affair with Helen. Although the revelation of the affair causes more tension between them, they still remain loyal to each other as colleagues.
In the final episode, he is called by Lester to handle the threat posed by a Silurian scorpion that was unleashed on a beach resort by Leek. He managed to spear the creature and left it for the ARC (or Leek as it is hinted later that Leek's collection includes the presumed dead smilodon from episode 2.3) to deal with after which he received a call from Helen who told him her location, telling Stephen that Nick and the others were dead and that Lester had kidnapped her.
Stephen arrived at Leek's base only to discover that Helen had lied to him and that Nick was alive. Despite feeling betrayed by Helen, Stephen showed anger towards Nick as well believing that he was wrong on how he dealt with the Anomaly crisis. Stephen, Helen and Nick tried to deal with the freed creatures by luring them into the central chamber where they were all held, luring them by ringing the bell that the creatures associated with feeding time. While doing this, a Deinonychus (Raptor, also appeared in episode 2.1) attacked Helen which Stephen killed with his pistol but then Helen kicked the door mechanism which could only be closed from the inside. Nick attempted to sacrifice himself but Stephen punched his mentor and entered the chamber, sealing it from the inside. The last sight of him was being killed by the assembled predators who killed each other after feasting on him. Having been relieved of his ARC duties some time earlier, and being fed disinformation by Helen, it appears that Stephen died still believing James Lester to be the traitor in the ARC (though Cutter told him that Lester was not the enemy moments before his death), and unaware of both Leek's role and fate.
His funeral was held by the members of the ARC but after they left, Helen arrived to visit the grave and stated that there was nothing to worry as there were ways to return.

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Christine Johnson[edit]

Christine Johnson

First appearance
Episode 3.1
Last appearance
Episode 3.9
Portrayed by
Belinda Stewart-Wilson
Information

Gender
Female
Occupation
Civil servant. Head of ARC for one episode [3.6]
Christine (played by Belinda Stewart-Wilson, ex-wife of Ben Miller) is the military liaison to the ARC in series three. Ostensibly, her role is to provide the assistance of the armed forces to deal with the problems caused by the anomalies. However, it is apparent she has other objectives.
In episode 3.1, she revealed her new role to James Lester, both equally despising the other, and sent several soldiers through an anomaly into the future to retrieve a mysterious artefact. The mission failed, with only one soldier returning alive, and the artefact ultimately being stolen by Helen Cutter. In episode 3.4, it is revealed that she has her own facility, which contains an anomaly and a Future Predator which her team is running tests on. The anomaly that Christine has is normally cloaked from the ARC's Anomaly Detection Device (presumably by radio jamming on the frequency used by the detector), but the existence of the anomaly is revealed to the ARC team when the cloaking device goes offline. In episode 3.5 she visits the ARC and attempted to convince Lester to replace the dead Cutter with Captain Wilder so that she could control the ARC team, and blamed Lester when one of her men was killed by a fungus creature. She was annoyed even further when Lester led her to assume he would choose Wilder to be team leader, but instead appoints Danny Quinn.
In episode 3.6, Christine's hidden cameras inside the ARC allowed her to learn they had the artefact, and had the Minister appoint to be in charge of the ARC, getting rid of Lester, but the team escaped with the artefact. She is forced to leave when Becker betrays her by recording her abusing the Minister, and Lester sent it to the Minister. She did so vowing "It's not over", mirroring Lester from earlier. However she didn't give up trying to take control of the ARC, and in episode 3.8 she sent Wilder though her anomaly and he returned with a woman from the future called Eve. in episode 3.9 her attempts to get information from her were interrupted by Danny, who escaped with Eve. Christine had a warrant for Danny's arrest, the return of Eve and the custody of the artefact when she arrived at the ARC, however Eve was revealed to be Helen, who kidnapped Christine and stole the artefact. Helen revealed Christine was the cause of the destruction in the future because of her ambitions before kicking her through the anomaly in her HQ. She returns, blood-spattered and terrified, and the team attempt to save her, only for a Future Predator to stick its head through the anomaly and growl at them. This causes them to let go of Johnson, and she is dragged screaming through the anomaly, which closes on her, and is presumably killed by the Predator.

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Katherine Kavanagh[edit]
Katherine Kavanagh appeared in episode 3.3 and episode 3.4 played by Ruth Gemmell. She is Mick Harper's boss from Evening News HQ. She only gave his assistant one chance to find a Diictodon and when Mick gave the picture to her, she said "No, not really, you bring me a blurry picture of a Gopher with false comedy teeth, a child of ten could've faked that. Get out of my sight!" In episode 3.4, Mick gave her an anomaly detector and they followed it. She got out from being locked in a building and while filming, Katherine was killed with Mick Harper by a Giganotosaurus while it followed Danny Quinn in a helicopter.

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Oliver Leek[edit]

Oliver Leek

First appearance
Episode 2.1
Last appearance
Episode 2.7
Portrayed by
Karl Theobald
Information

Gender
Male
Occupation
Assistant to James Lester(Claudia Browns replacement)
Oliver Leek was the main antagonist of the second series. He is played by Karl Theobald.
Leek works for the ARC (Anomaly Research Centre) which investigates time anomalies and stops creatures of the past and future from coming through them.
When Helen and Nick went to the Permian in Episode 1.6, on their return the timeline had changed, Leek had replaced Claudia Brown as James Lester's assistant.
According to the official Primeval website, Leek is "slightly nerdy, intelligent and eager to please". He went as far as buying suits from exactly the same tailor as Lester, a feeble attempt to impress his boss. At school Leek was overlooked and the last picked at sports.[citation needed] As an adult, he goes to the same restaurant every morning and eats at the same table, while the waiter still fails to recognise him. Apparently he is 33 years old, 170 cm (5 ft, 8 in) tall, and was born in Birmingham.
According to the website "There is more to Leek than meets the eye", pointing towards a sinister side of him.[7] This sinister side is first shown in episodes 2.3 and 2.4, where he appears to be employing at least two individuals (a mysterious cleaner and Caroline Steel) to follow the team and find out as much as they can. He also appears to be consorting with Helen who seems to have placed her trust in him for some objective. In episode 2.6 it is revealed that Leek is overseeing a private menagerie of animals, to establish a powerful place for himself in the future. Caroline eventually steals Rex, who is then used as bait to lure Cutter's team to Leek's secret facility.
Leek is highly adept at manipulating people, seeming very much in control in episode 2.7, and is able to use this ability to engineer situations to his own advantage. In addition, although Cutter realises early in series two that there is a traitor within the ARC, Leek manages to avoid suspicion until he chooses to reveal himself in episode 2.6, having set an elaborate trap for the team based on his knowledge of Connor Temple's working methods. He seems to dislike taking orders, and reminds Helen Cutter that he is in charge multiple times throughout episode 2.7.
He seems to have a great disregard to other people's feelings and human lives – he finds the fight between Abby and Caroline entertaining, and does not seem to care when Cutter tells him that if a predator was to escape it could wipe out mankind. He further demonstrates his lack of appreciation for human life by releasing a Silurian Scorpion into a popular beach resort and allowing it to kill two innocent men, as well as placing 12 more creatures at strategic locations and threatening to release them despite knowing full-well the carnage and destruction they would cause. Lester and Connor both refer to him as a small, insignificant or irritating man because of his aloof nature.[citation needed]
His plan of releasing creatures to take control of mankind fails when a virus sends Lester all the information required. If Cutter had escaped with the others, then Leek would have almost certainly been arrested, but because Cutter remains Leek still seems to think he is unstoppable. He threatens to kill Cutter using his army of Future Predators, but before he can command the predators to kill him, Cutter throws a neural clamp used to control the predators into an electric box, which short-circuits all the other clamps. Cutter escapes and shuts the door to the room. The Future Predators descend to the floor of the room and horrifically kill Leek as he screams in agony. This is witnessed via the Anomaly Detector by Lester and several of the ARC staff, though only Lester can bring himself to watch before turning to one of the staff, Lorraine Wickes, and casually asks her to switch the device off.
Although he is never seen at a computer terminal, it is apparent that Leek has considerable hacking skills, which he has used to install spyware on Connor's "anomaly detector", and to set a booby-trap which initiated the countdown on a bomb when Connor attempted to access Leek's personnel files.

April Leonard[edit]

April Leonard

First appearance
Episode 5.1
Last appearance
Episode 5.5
Portrayed by
Janice Byrne
Information

Gender
Female
Occupation
Prospero scientist
April Leonard is played by Janice Byrne, and is Connor's assistant following her appointment by Philip Burton. When around Connor and the rest of the ARC team she wears glasses, though she does not need them.
She was first seen in episode 5.1 at the site of Philip's New Dawn facility, and Philip decided to have her assist Connor in helping work on New Dawn to create energy from the anomalies. She was later shown to be reporting to Philip on Connor's progress, as well as keeping an eye on anyone that Danny Quinn might have told about his connection with Helen Cutter. In 5.3 she subtly forces Connor to continue working, and later gives Abby 'friendly advice' about leaving Connor to finish his important work at the risk of losing him.
In Episode 5.4 she assists Philip in watching their new data come in from Connor's anomaly, and convinced him to kill the people in the ARC by blowing it up during a future beetles incursion, saying that Philip's goals were worth more than them; however this did not come to pass. In episode 5.5, when the team is trying to prevent the New Dawn project going online, she has a confrontation with Abby, which ends when she is attacked and killed by a flock of Anurognathus.

James Lester[edit]

James Lester

First appearance
Episode 1.1
Portrayed by
Ben Miller
Information

Gender
Male
Occupation
Senior UK government official
Spouse(s)
1 (unnamed)
Children
3 (unnamed)
Nationality
English
James Peregrine Lester is played by Ben Miller.
Lester works for the British government, and is leader and ultimately responsible for the team of scientists, led by Nick Cutter, charged with investigating the appearance of time anomalies. A ruthless and sarcastic individual, he's been given the task of uncovering the secrets of the anomalies and to prevent mass panic and he intends to do that by whatever means are necessary.
According to the official site he is without any real political allegiances although he believes that the ends justify the means and has no problems with torture. He is also hinted to be a British patriot with a distrust of the EU.[1] – "And I thought the Common Agricultural Policy was far-fetched."
While remaining, for the most part, stubborn, paranoid, slow to face facts and wilfully ignorant, he has also displayed surprising bursts of astonishing foresight and knowledge as he guesses correctly that his assistant has personal reasons for wanting Cutter to remain close by, and that Cutter was hiding something from them.[1] He also guesses that Helen Cutter was lying in order to escape, "I think I'd trust her just about as far as I can throw a Stegosaurus", but is convinced otherwise by Claudia and Cutter, which proves to be a mistake on their part. He's usually right in the final analysis, especially on matters of human nature, when Cutter is usually wrong.[2]
However, he has also shown a softer side when he promises to have the charges against a young girl dropped, when Claudia brings the matter to his attention, even though he can simply do nothing.[3] In Series 3 he allowed Connor to stay with him when Abby asked him to move out of her flat when her brother Jack needed somewhere to stay, despite showing previous dislike towards him. Like Professor Cutter, Lester has slowly mellowed out over the course of the series and become far more active and reasonable when dealing with the team.[5]
He is a snappy dresser as he owns over 50 suits, all made to measure, all dark colours with colourful ties because someone once told him it was trendy.[8] He also plays squash and tennis as a hobby.[8]
Little of Lester's background has been revealed, other than he has a family.[8] While his exact role and position in the government is unclear, he has free run of Whitehall and command of intelligence and security forces. He has spent his entire career "planning for just about every crisis imaginable—up to and including alien invasion."[1] He describes himself as "a trouble shooter without portfolio in the PM's office" and agreed with Cutter's assessment that he is a "government backed hatchet man."
For most episodes he remains a sedentary leader and problem-solver; everyone has to go to him at Whitehall, and he operates through agents like Claudia Brown and Tom Ryan. However this is apparently not due to any lack courage in the face of danger, he has no fear going out in the field and once met up with the team[3] in order to confront Cutter personally and ensure the capture of Helen Cutter. During her later interrogation he is quite happy to use torture to gain information.
While having an intense dislike of Cutter, and believing his team members (Connor in particular) to be annoying,[3] he remains professional except for regular sarcastic comments. Later in the series his relationship with Cutter did reach a breaking point; he questions Cutter's role in his wife's escape and the reason for his pursuit[2] and claims he causes more problems than he solves, which is, as usual, an accurate assessment. By the end of the first series, however, he was prepared to forgive and forget and put his neck on the line for the Professor and, when push came to shove, was prepared to actively join in the effort to find a Future Predator and the anomaly it came from.[5] James Lester's middle name is Peregrine, which he keeps a closely guarded secret.
Due to alterations in the timeline, the cause of which is unknown, Lester is now the agent in charge of the A.R.C. He now also has a personal assistant, Oliver Leek, who is apparently working for Helen Cutter. Connor later discovered that his new girlfriend, Caroline Steel, is really working with Leek and Helen.[9] In episode 2.6, Lester is trapped alone inside the ARC by Oliver Leek, who attempts to kill him using a Future Predator controlled by "neural clamp" (some kind of external control) on its spinal column. Lester foils the attempt by releasing a Columbian mammoth which is being kept safe inside the ARC, which impales the predator on its tusks. Lester later jokingly suggests keeping the mammoth as a pet for his kids, if the team was unable to find the creature a home. This is the first time Lester mentions having a family. Lester then decides to take charge of the next anomaly investigation himself, however it turns out to be a false alarm, set up as a diversion by Leek while he lures Cutter's team to his secret facility. Lester arrives at the scene of the false alarm to find only a note reading "BAD LUCK". In the final episode, Lester shows much more support and concern for the team, and goes to the extent of calling Stephen to try to help out. However, he is set up by Helen, and portrayed as a bad guy throughout the final episode (by Stephen and Helen's perspective). He also sides with Cutter, who seems willing to die to prevent anyone else from being killed. When Cutter destroys the neural clamps, releasing the predators from Leek's control, Lester insists on watching Leek being devoured by his former pets and seems unfazed by it as opposed to the horrified reactions of the other people watching, including his assistant Lorraine Wickes. When the death of Leek is over, he casually tells Lorraine to: "turn that off will you?". He also discovers the secret locations of Leek's menagerie, and mops them all up one by one. He also attends Stephen Hart's funeral, but has to leave early because of a "high-priority anomaly".
In Series 3 Lester's fight become more personal when he discovers Christine Johnson working against him, who he has connections to. In episode 3.3 he is rounded up and imprisoned with the rest of the ARC by Helen and her clones, and shows little surprise at Cutter's apparent betrayal "So, Cutter's finally gone native". When Cutter lies dying after the ARC explosion, Lester yells desperately for an ambulance for him. In the following episode he makes Jenny team leader, and then assigns Danny Quinn to the same role the episode after. When he discovers Connor living in the ARC with the two Diictodon he offers him his spare apartment, although later appears to be annoyed at the mess Connor and his "pets" make. In episode 3.6 he is stripped of command of the ARC by Christine Johnson, although with the help of Becker he regains it later in the episode, telling Johnson that she is "sitting in his chair" mirroring one of her lines earlier that episode. In episode 3.9 Lester commands Danny not to invade Johnson's HQ to rescue Eve, and becomes annoyed at him when he does, and appears ready to hand Danny over to Johnson until Eve is revealed as Helen.
In Series 4 Lester is a subordinate to Philip Burton, whom he dislikes greatly, after the government makes a deal for Burton's company to subsidise the ARC and anomaly research. He is somewhat pleased by Abby and Connor's return, though he has to follow orders and have them fired due to new policies, but later finds a loophole to get them back on the team. He defies Burton's plan to kill the creatures in the ARC's menagerie, by blackmailing him with the fact that when the anomalies inevitably go public he will expose Burton as "the dinosaur killer" in sympathy for an upset Abby. In 4.5 he helps Matt locate Victorian-era woman Emily Merchant, and in the next episode is informed of the Ethan Dobrowski situation before he marries Jenny and her fiancé with special power from the Prime Minister. In the series finale he couldn't been more happier when Danny returned with the news that Helen Cutter was as dead as a dodo.
Although he has previously been occasionally referred to in the credits as "Sir" James Lester, it is made clear in the first episode of Series 5 (when he thinks he is in line for one) that he does not actually have a knighthood. He was excited and thought that his interview would secure the knighthood, only to learn that it was for Philip and he had set aside any doubts. In episode 5.2, Lester is shown to have a large dislike of the Navy, especially when an admiral attempts to nuke the anomaly after the team's submarine had been pulled through, and is pleased when the admiral is berated by the Minister. When he returns in episode 5.5 he learns Matt is from the future and Philip is responsible for the end of the world, and when several anomalies begin opening he encourages Jess to continue working, using polite words. When an anomaly opens in the ARC's carpark he goes to defend his new Jaguar from a tree creeper with an EMD. In the series finale he and Jess are attacked by mutated Future Predators in the ARC, and though he is heavily wounded, he survives.

Jenny Lewis[edit]

Jennifer Lewis

First appearance
Episode 2.1
Last appearance
Episode 4.6
Portrayed by
Lucy Brown
Information

Gender
Female
Occupation
PR official
Significant other(s)
Michael Miller (husband)
Children
0
Nationality
English
Jenny Lewis is played by Lucy Brown and replaced a physically identical but temperamentally different character, Claudia Brown, played by the same actress. She is 28 years old. At the end of the first series, Claudia disappeared off the timeline, much to the horror of Cutter, who found it difficult to adjust when Jenny appeared, looking exactly like Claudia.
Jenny's attitude contrasts with Claudia's. She is bossy and stubborn, ignoring Cutter's order to take the stairs in episode 2.2. Cutter states in episode 2.3 that Jenny is a "real piece of work" to which Jenny replies, "Thank you, I'll take that as a compliment".
Jenny was engaged but in episode 2.7, Jenny states that she no longer has a fiancé, as he broke up the engagement after he thought that she had met another man, although as Jenny says, "I couldn't really tell him that it wasn't another man, as much as a something-a-saurus."
Cutter explains to Jenny that he has not had luck with women – Helen disappeared eight years before, and he claims the last woman in his life (Claudia Brown) left him.
Jenny is initially employed by James Lester to create cover stories for the activities of the Anomaly Research Centre, without being told what the ARC is really doing. She only discovers that the centre is involved in dealing with prehistoric animals when she disobeys a direct order and accidentally comes face-to-face with one that has come through the office block anomaly in episode 2.2. However, once she has got over the initial shock, Jenny quickly adjusts and takes the unusual nature of the job in her stride. Although her job is officially just public relations, she has no difficulty in taking a leadership role when necessary. She led an armoured team to investigate the church anomaly in episode 2.6 (though it is in fact a deliberate false alarm) and taking charge of the escape from Leek's secret facility in episode 2.7. In the latter she is also revealed to be a crack shot, shooting one of Leek's men from afar. She explains her ability by saying that her "friends preferred pony riding, I preferred clay pigeon shooting". James Lester regards her as the most dependable member of the team, and makes her interim leader following the death of Nick Cutter.
One quirk of Jenny's character is that she always wears high heeled shoes, which are not necessarily appropriate or practical for the work she does and sometimes hamper her. It was her reluctance to climb stairs in her high heels that first led her, in episode 2.2 to learn the truth about the ARC's purpose. In Series 3 she was more "sensible" in the way she dressed, wearing more suitable clothing, with her hair down, and less make-up, causing her to resemble Claudia much more.
Claudia remains out of existence for the rest of the series, although Jenny first appears in episode 2.1. At the end of episode 2.2, Cutter explains to Jenny as best he can about what could have happened to change the past. Claudia's job as Lester's assistant was changed to a man named Oliver Leek, who was revealed to be working for Helen Cutter. It was implied that Helen was responsible for Claudia being replaced by Jenny, however this is thought not to be the case when Helen explains that the first change was an accident. It is still possible that Helen intentionally messed with Claudia/Jenny's past in order to enact revenge or to, as her obsessing in episode 2.7 would imply, re-set the stage for her and Nick to get together again.
in episode 3.3 Jenny confessed to Sarah Page that she has fallen in love with Nick Cutter. When Cutter was preparing to go back inside the burning ARC to look for Helen in episode 3.3, Jenny asked him not to go and thought it was a mistake, which is reference to what Claudia Brown said the last time Cutter saw her before going through the Permian Anomaly. Later, as Cutter was dying in Connor's arms, he started to ask Connor to tell Claudia something, but then changed his mind and said nothing. When Nick dies as the ARC explodes, Jenny bursts into tears along with Abby and Connor, while Sarah watches on silently. Jenny said there was something she wanted to tell Nick and that was that she loved him. Jenny is promoted by Lester temporarily to team leader in episode 3.4, though has difficulty dealing with Cutter's death. In the following episode, Jenny discovers a photograph of Claudia Brown amongst Cutter's remaining possessions, realising that she has in fact lived a double life. At the end of the episode, after dying within the ARC and then being resuscitated by the team, she makes the decision to leave her position for the Anomaly Research Centre.
Later though in Series 4 of Primeval an anomaly opens in a mansion where Jenny and a her fiancé are to be wed. Although she did not want to bump into them she invites them to the wedding. Connor then reopens the anomaly after locking it and releases two prehistoric carnivorous mammals, Hyenadons, on the loose causing havoc. Fortunately Matt, Jenny, Abby, Connor and Emily take care of the creatures, and James Lester marries Jenny and her fiancé.

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Abby Maitland[edit]

Abby Sarah Maitland

First appearance
Episode 1.1
Portrayed by
Hannah Spearritt
Information

Gender
Female
Occupation
Zookeeper
Family
Jack Maitland (brother)
Significant other(s)
Connor Temple (husband)
Abigail Sarah Maitland is played by Hannah Spearritt.
ITV's official site says that while Abby has arachnophobia she developed a love of reptiles when her parents took her on holiday to the Galapagos Islands as a child and has had a love affair with lizards ever since. Although she started university she later left after only one term when she became a zookeeper. Always fit and athletic, her hobbies include gymnastics, Ashtanga yoga, karate, kick boxing, swimming and diving. She keeps gym equipment in her flat. Actress Hannah Spearritt also stated that Abby was abused as a child. In Series 1 she seemed to be attracted to Stephen Hart, but in the second season she seems to be falling in love with Connor Temple.
She openly admits to falling in love with the wrong type of men – moody and dangerous. She also appears to have her feelings hurt easily but struggles to remain upbeat and positive.[1] She can also be remarkably deceitful in order to get her own way as she lies to the government and to her team mates about her experiences with spiders so they will take her with them. She would not tell anyone that Rex came back through the anomaly with Nick Cutter.
She is a zookeeper who first appears in the series when a small boy called Ben who alerts the zoo she works at about an escaped lizard he misidentifies as a modern day lizard named Draco volans.[1] She later angers Cutter when she and Connor go off to find an anomaly by themselves but is allowed to stay because he admits he needs her skills. She later allows Connor to move into her flat on a purely platonic basis. She remains as the team lab assistant and sidekick up until episode 1.4 when she is almost contaminated by a deadly parasite by a student friend of work/flatmate Connor Temple.[2]
Her love/hate relationship with Connor reaches a peak in episode 1.5[4] when she is enraged that he let everyone know that she's been keeping Rex in secret but later says that if he makes her breakfast on the weekends and does the washing up for a month then he can stay. She admits that this compromise is really because she actually likes having him around. Connor hugs her, prompting Abby to say she likes having him around as a friend, hinting that she is beginning to fall in love with him. How Abby has been changed by the alterations in the timeline is unknown. Connor now has a girlfriend in this new timeline but how this affects their relationship is unknown. Connor's girlfriend, much to Abby's horror, hates lizards, and the two do not get along.[9] Also, her crush on Stephen, and their closeness because of it, seems to have completely disappeared in the second season.
In episode 2.1, Abby and Connor seem to have a much closer relationship than they did previously. This comes to the extent that Abby pays for Connor's slushie and lets Connor use her gun, even though there is a pack of Deinonychus on the loose. Abby has a much better flat in the second series, and the reptile species that she keeps includes Rex the Coelurosauravus, a corn snake, a milk snake, leopard geckos, bearded dragons and a boa constrictor. In episode 2.2, Abby is quietly jealous of Caroline Steel who Connor seems to have a relationship with. It is clear that Abby disapproves however, as she shows no sympathy when Connor has to leave for work or when he accidentally washes his number off. In episode 2.4, Abby is attacked by a futuristic Mer, and dragged through an anomaly to the future. Connor runs through, despite being injured, alone to help her, and tries to pull her over an overhang, and as he appears to be able to get her over, a massive Mer looms over them, preparing to kill them. Abby begs him to let her go and escape, but he refuses, finally bursting out, 'I can't! I love you!' She would later confront him about the matter but at this point Caroline Steel comes for her date with Connor. Ironically, at one point Abby defeats a Mer using a kickboxing move that Caroline showed her, thus Caroline probably indirectly and unknowingly saved Abby's life.
In the Series 2 finale, Abby is captured with the rest of the team and held captive. When Caroline is thrown into the cell with Connor and Abby, the two girls fight, punching and kicking each other. Eventually Abby slams Caroline against a wall, but Caroline uses her superior strength to pin Abby down. Abby bites her and she lets go, and the two continue to grapple briefly, much to Connor's shock and Leek's amusement. Connor succeeds in breaking up the fight but when Caroline thanks him, he says "I didn't do it for you" and seems to remain close to Abby throughout the episode. Surprisingly, she later forgives Caroline and even saves her life when they are kept in a room with a smilodon. Abby splits off from the group as a distraction, and inadvertently turns off the power system and releases the creatures. Rex is shot in the episode, and Abby looks after him (but not before thanking Caroline for saving him). At the end of the episode, Abby and the rest of the team are at Stephen's funeral, where Abby lays flowers for him. As they leave, Abby reaches to hold Connor's hand, but the team get called out to an anomaly.
In series 3, she and Connor continued to grow closer, though they were reluctant to do anything about their attraction. In episode 3.4 she is revealed to have a brother, Jack, who stays with her and forces Connor to move out temporarily. During episode 3.8 Abby desperately went through an anomaly to rescue Jack after he went through accidentally, risking her own life and the others because she didn't want to lose him. At the end of the episode she and Connor kissed after Jack admitted to her that Connor had helped him get Rex back and losing him in a poker game, thankful that he hadn't made Jack look bad. At the start of episode 3.9, Abby visits Connor and explains that she does not want things to be 'weird' between them, making their relationship indefinite. However when the pair are trapped in the Cretaceous while chasing Helen with new team leader Danny Quinn, she helps him to relax, and agrees to let him move back into her flat once they return home.
The episode 4.1, Connor and Abby have been living in the Cretaceous period for a year and by this time, Abby had lost all faith in getting back to the present. However, after finding an anomaly device they do manage to get back to the present, and both are told by the ARC that they are fired, due to new regulations stating that employees must be from a military/police background; although Lester later reinstates them in episode 4.2. The opening episodes also show that Connor and Abby are a couple, this is shown by the two kissing at the end of 4.1, and Abby telling Duncan that she is Connor's girlfriend. However their relationship becomes strained as they readjust to their jobs, particularly when Connor doesn't stay to support her as she tries to stop Philip Burton from killing the Rex and the other creatures in the ARC in episode 4.4, and when he blurts out about the possibility of getting married in episode 4.6.
In the fifth series she learned of Matt's mission and lent her help, though her relationship with Connor became strained as she couldn't tell him why she was trying to stop his obsessive work for Philip. In episode 5.3 she wasn't happy when Connor's new assistant April Leonard suggested that she was nothing but a distraction for him, and this emboldened her to copy Connor's hard drive, despite refusing Matt's earlier requests. When he caught her near his lab she tried to appeal to him by revealing Helen and Philip's association, though his apparent knowledge made him adamant she only wanted him away from Philip, creating further tension between them. She was furious at him when he opened his own anomaly in the ARC in episode 5.4, and set out to find Rex when he was loose in the ARC with an imminent gamma ray to kill a swarm of future beetles. In episode 5.5 she rescued Connor from a Kaprosuchus after he had been abandoned by Philip, and the two made up as Connor had realised he should have trusted Abby over Philip. At the New Dawn facility she threatened April with her EMD, and tried to go after Connor when he was pulled through the anomaly as it opened. In the series finale she and Matt go to rescue him from a pack of mutated Future Predators, and encourages Connor to return when he gives up hope, whispering something in his ear. After returning she comes up with a plan to paralyse the Predators in the ARC by using high frequency sounds, and once the crisis is over she asks Connor to marry her (what she told him in the future), which he agreed to.
In the first season finale of Primeval: New World, Connor mentions that he has a wife, meaning that he and Abby have since gotten married following Series 5.

Jack Maitland[edit]

Jack Maitland

First appearance
Episode 3.4
Last appearance
Episode 3.8
Portrayed by
Robert Lowe
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Gender
Male
Jack Maitland is the brother of Abby Maitland, played by Robert Lowe. He first appears in episode 3.4, when Connor mistakenly believes that Jack is Abby's boyfriend after he answers Abby's phone while she's out of the room. At the end of the episode Abby explains that Jack is her brother but asks Connor to move out for a couple of days so that Jack can stay with her. In episode 3.6, he invited his friends for a game of poker and used Rex. He gambled Rex and put him up for auction and neither Connor or Abby were happy with him. Connor felt he could've made Jack feel bad after he got Rex back from his friend, Tony, but he did not. In episode 3.8, he stole Abby's anomaly detector and found out she worked in a dangerous place and while playing around in a sports car, he went through the anomaly. He fell in a trap underground and broke his arm. He shouted "Help!" and Abby heard him. They got him safe and they all shouted at him for nearly killing Becker (and almost himself). Jack moved out at the end of series three, and it was implied that Connor then moved back in with Abby. It is unknown if he knew of Abby's year-long disappearance.
In the first season finale of Primeval: New World, Connor mentions that he has a wife, meaning that he and Abby have since gotten married following Series 5; this also means that Jack is Connor's brother-in-law.

Emily Merchant[edit]

Emily Merchant

First appearance
Episode 4.3
Portrayed by
Ruth Bradley
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Gender
Female
Spouse(s)
Henry Merchant (deceased)
Significant other(s)
Matt
Nationality
English
Emily Merchant is a 28-year-old English woman[10] who appeared in a theatre via an anomaly in episode 4.3. Born in London in 1840, she is familiar with travelling in time and was previously living with a group in the Cretaceous. She carries a stiletto and is capable of holding her own in a fight with humans or creatures.
She and Ethan Dobrowski brought a sick woman, their friend Charlotte Cameron, to modern London in the hope of finding medical treatment. After Charlotte died she returned to the Cretaceous, but Matt brought her back thinking she was from the present and been attacked by a tree creeper. She then asked him to keep her presence secret while she tried to find Ethan Dobrowski. In episode 4.4 she was kidnapped by Ethan from Matt's flat. In episode 4.5 Ethan took her to a cemetery and left her tied and gagged in a coffin, until she was rescued by Matt. She forms a close relationship with Matt Anderson, but in episode 4.6 she is revealed to have been married before she went through the anomalies, but told Matt that she had only married out of her father's wishes and had never loved him. In episode 4.7 she returns to the 19th century so as not to distract Matt from his mission to save humanity, which he admitted after she figured out he wasn't from the present day.
She features in episode 5.3, where she has been trying to find a creature that has been killing people in 19th-century London, while being forced back into a subservient role by her husband Henry. She reunites with Matt, and refuses to hear what Matt has learned about her future until Henry arrives. Abby and Matt had discovered that Henry would institutionalise her for apparent insanity, though mostly for the position she has been putting him in lately. After capturing the raptor she initially refuses to return with him to the present, but does so when Henry arrives and threatens Matt at gunpoint, and after he is killed by the raptor she decides to stay. During the next few episodes she becomes part of the ARC team, helping with creature incursions.

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Sarah Page[edit]

Sarah Page

First appearance
episode 3.1
Last appearance
Episode 3.10
Portrayed by
Laila Rouass
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Gender
Female
Occupation
Egyptologist
died = in the future looking for Abby, Connor, Danny.(episode EPW1)
Sarah Page studies Egyptology before joining the Primeval team in Series 3. She joins after witnessing a creature attack the British History Museum in the first episode. Cutter is impressed with her skills and asks her to join the team, which she accepts. after she makes a remark, Cutter sets her the task of finding out if the old myths and legends of the past could have a link with the anomalies. Sarah is shown to have a brother and sister type relationship with Connor. When the ARC is attacked by Helen's Cleaner Clones in episode 3.3, she is captured along with Jenny and Lester. She is the one who makes the audio tape that eventually stops Helen's clones. Sarah makes it out of the fire raging inside the ARC and watches on in shock while Cutter is lying dead on the floor after Connor has brought him from the exploding building.
In episode 3.4, Sarah works with Connor on cleaning up the 'artifact' that Cutter took from Helen and finds out that it contains a map of the matrix of anomalies that Cutter had created at the beginning of the series. In episode 3.6, she is forced to go into hiding with Danny, Connor and Abby after Christine Johnson takes over the ARC, she and the rest of the team are forced to take refuge in an old abandoned cabin. When Lester is reinstated to the ARC thanks to Becker, Sarah kisses Becker on the cheek as a reward. After episode 3.6, she takes a more hands on approach and goes out with the team to the anomaly sites, she goes back in time to find out information about the knight who came through an anomaly. In episode 3.9, she finds out that the woman who Danny is with is actually Helen Cutter in disguise, but she is too late to stop her from taking Christine Johnson hostage. In episode 3.10, she and Becker are the only two members of the team to be in the present day, with Connor, Abby and Danny stuck on the other sides of different anomalies. She ends by saying she has an idea although it is unexplained what this is.
Sarah Page did not return in series 4. Her death was implied through Becker's flashback in a series 4 webisode. Becker and Sarah are known to have led rescue missions to try to find the others by going through the future anomaly. During their last attempt, Sarah was killed by an unknown creature, though it is implied to be a Future Predator as her cries to Becker are heard over a visual of a Predator attacking the car she was probably in.

Jess Parker[edit]

Jess Parker

First appearance
Episode 4.1
Portrayed by
Ruth Kearney
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Gender
Female
Occupation
Field Coordinator
Jess Parker is the team's field coordinator, using her skills to help the team and direct their movements, all from her control station at the ARC. Although only 19,[11] Jess displays an outstanding level of organisation and efficiency, providing a stable environment for the team during their missions, and also has a crush on Becker.
Jess accidentally released the Dracorex from the ARC's containment in the beginning of Series 4, and later coordinated the team as they dealt with a Spinosaurus that had followed Connor and Abby through the Anomaly. She was sympathetic towards Connor as his job had been rendered unnecessary since his disappearance, and offered for him and Abby to stay at her flat. When Matt was gone she asked him to get her some chocolates but he forgot, however Becker got her some, leaving her flustered as she later asked about the old team and Becker. She didn't seem to realise the seriousness of the job until she witnessed a teenager being killed on CCTV footage in episode 4.4. She was afraid when Becker was poisoned by a creature, but relieved when he recovered and tried comforting him. In episode 4.6 she joins Becker on his stakeout to catch Ethan Dobrowski, and instead of fleeing a trap that Becker was caught in stayed to disarm the bomb, and she hugged him in relief.
She is allergic to insect bites and keeps an epi pen, as shown in episode 5.4 when she is bitten by a future beetle and almost dies. Becker takes care of her throughout this ordeal, determined to get her help, showing her feelings may be returned.

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Danny Quinn[edit]

Danny Quinn

First appearance
Episode 3.2
Portrayed by
Jason Flemyng
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Gender
Male
Occupation
Former Police Officer
Team Leader
Relatives
Patrick Quinn (Ethan Dobrowski) (brother)
Nationality
English
Danny Quinn is a former Police officer and team leader, and is played by Jason Flemyng
He was investigating the death of two teenagers (one being his brother, Patrick) in a house believed to be haunted. He suspected Ryan Mason as the murderer, as he was the third teenager in the house, who escaped. Danny frequently went to the house to arrest trespassers, and at first thought the team were breaking in. He then arrests Connor and discovers a futuristic camouflaging creature, as well as the anomalies. He discovers that the creature was the one that murdered his brother. He shoots the creature back through the anomaly. He returns, following the team on his motorbike when they arrive in an airport and pilots a helicopter through the anomaly so the Giganotosaurus that had come through followed him back. He is lucky to escape, as when he returns to the present he is being hunted by a pack of creatures, and Connor locks the anomaly just in time. In the next episode he breaks into the ARC and, armed with flamethrowers, searches for a fungus creature in the London underground with the team. He plans to burn it but Sarah phones Jenny to warn him not to use the flamethrowers. The team manage to get the creature into a van, then he drives it back into the ARC. They then lose the creature briefly, but it appears in the communications room, while Jenny is still there. He risks his life to go in the frozen room to distract the creature, thus saves Jenny's life. Lester decides he will be the new team leader, as suggested by Jenny, who decided to leave. It was implied that he fancied Jenny, but she left the team too soon for any relationship to occur between them.
While checking security in the ARC he breaks through the ventilation shafts and then battles the titanis tricking them into the anomaly by using a loud speakerphone recording of their calling. He later battles Sir William, a medieval knight, and is almost run through by his sword. He is revealed to know Latin fairly fluently. During a trip to the future in episode 3.8 he witnessed Eve (Helen Cutter in disguise) enter the present, and in the following episode rescued her from Christine Johnson's base, returning her to the ARC before realising who she really was. Along with Connor, Abby, Sarah and Becker he follows her back to Johnson's HQ and witnesses the death of Christine at the hands of a Future Predator. In the following episode he travels back to the future with Connor and Abby, only to chase Helen into the past, and onwards into the deeper past alone, after Connor is injured. Danny witnesses the death of Helen in the deep past, and assures that the human race survives, before finding himself stranded when the anomaly closes. Trapped, alone in the past, Danny cries out in anger as Series 3 draws to a close.
Danny returned in the episode 4.7, having survived his time in the Pliocene. However as he came through the anomaly he was shot by Matt Anderson with an EMD. He woke up sometime later, relieved to be back. While the team were also dealing with a man named Ethan, Danny helped Abby and Connor in sending a Terror Bird through a satellite anomaly. When Ethan held Danny at gunpoint, he recognised him as his brother Patrick, who had survived his encounter with the camouflage beast and had been driven mad while going through the anomalies. He reported Helen's death to a pleased Lester, and was suspicious of Philip Burton when they met, having found a document on Helen's body with Philip's name on it. While speaking with Patrick he pleaded to be allowed to go through the anomaly, only to be knocked out. He and Matt went after Patrick, who escaped into the Pliocene. Danny decided to follow him, unwilling to risk Patrick making it to another human inhabited era. Before he departed he left a warning to Matt that Philip couldn't be trusted, asking him to warn the others.

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Tom Ryan[edit]

Tom Ryan

First appearance
Episode 1.1
Last appearance
Episode 1.6
Portrayed by
Mark Wakeling
Information

Gender
Male
Occupation
Special Ops Captain
Title
Captain
Captain Tom Ryan is played by Mark Wakeling. He was the leader of the special forces unit that supported Nick Cutter and his team. Ryan was said to have joined the army at 17, saw active service in both Gulf wars, joined the SAS, then transferred to a special elite unit engaged in top secret operations. He had led an army walking team to the South Pole and back in record time and commented that it was chilly on his return. He was attacked by a Future Predator at the end of series one and died shortly afterwards.[12] He was replaced in Series 3, by Captain Becker.
Ryan was a background character who was in charge of the military support, but generally followed Cutter's orders, whilst deferring to the government officials. When told to shoot the flying creature on the golf course he does so despite Cutter's protests, and in episode 1.3 he is willing to capture Helen Cutter when ordered to, despite Cutter's disapproval. In general, he does not appear to have a close relationship with the rest of the team.
In his final scene he attempts to save Cutter by opening fire on the futuristic beast, knowing full well it will give his position away and he is mortally wounded. Cutter rushes to him after the beast is killed by a gorgonopsid, and Captain Ryan reminisces about their first trip through the anomaly.[12] It soon becomes clear that Ryan's role in the series is as a catalyst for the change in the timeline that occurs at the end of Series 1.
In episode 1.1 he first appears towards the end as they are about to perform an expedition into the anomaly. It is said he has seen action in the first gulf war and has had experience in desert combat. When Cutter refuses to leave towards the end of the expedition he knocks Cutter out with the handle of his pistol. When Cutter comes round he hits him but Ryan hits him back harder and tells him not to do that, he says he will stay with Cutter if he refuses to leave but both decide to leave. In episode 1.2 he leads the special forces unit into the London underground where they come into contact with Prehistoric spiders the team cannot fire in enclosed spaces and try to fight them off with their fists but are forced back because of the sheer number of them. He then later accompanies Connor and Cutter to collect venom from the giant centipede in the tube station, once the venom has been collected Cutter tells him to finish off the centipede but despite initial success shooting him the centipede disarms him but Connor comes in with a chair forcing him in to a generator electrocuting and killing it. In episode 1.3 he firstly helps operate the rope on Cutter when he dives through the underwater anomaly and helps pull him out when a mosasaur destroys his oxygen tank then leads the special forces into the anomaly to capture Helen Cutter and forcibly bring her back.
In episode 1.4 his team accompany Helen Cutter to an anomaly where a pack of sabre tooth tigers are supposed to be, and when she escapes he pursues her but she escapes through a series of anomalies on the other side. Then a flock of dodos come through the anomaly. Cutter and his team, with difficulty, round up all but one of the dodos and send them back through the anomaly. When an infected Tom, Connor's friend, attacks Abby he and his special forces team arrive and fix their laser sights on him but before they can shoot him Connor blocks the way and despite his protest he is forced not to shoot and Connor talks Tom out of his rage. In episode 1.5 his team accompany Cutter to a golf course where a flying creature is killing people, when ordered to shoot it he obeys but Cutter pushes him making his shot miss. He looks at Cutter resentfully. At the end when the creature flies back into the void while everyone else in Cutters team are cheering he simply lowers his gun and appears happy. In episode 1.6 when pursuing the futuristic creature he says to Cutter he is happy that the team is allowed to kill this one as he was starting to feel "like a bloody social worker." He is mortally wounded by the futuristic predator, and correctly predicts himself to be the skeleton they found in the first episode
The BBC America website revealed that initially Captain Ryan was going to be killed off in the first episode, but Mark Wakeling acted so well that they commissioned him for the entire series. Henshall also stated that he would have wanted Ryan to be like the character of Kenny McCormick in South Park, being killed and resurrected throughout the different series.

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Caroline Steel[edit]

Caroline Steel

First appearance
Episode 2.2
Last appearance
Episode 2.7
Portrayed by
Naomi Bentley
Information

Gender
Female
Caroline Steel is a supporting villain played by Naomi Bentley. Steel meets Connor Temple in episode 2.2 in a local DVD store where Connor was looking for science fiction DVDs.[13]
She loves cats and dogs, but is scared of lizards (possibly all reptiles) much to the shock of Abby Maitland. It is eventually revealed that Steel is working for Oliver Leek (though she is largely ignorant of Leek's plans), and is using Connor to get to the team. Caroline has plans to appear on television, but so far has failed to appear upon Big Brother and X Factor. Apparently she is 22 years old, 157 centimetres tall and was born in Hackney, London. She enjoys running, dancing, fencing, squash, kick boxing, paintballing and "metal detector". Her bitter rivalry with Abby arises from Abby's suspicions that Caroline's interest in Connor is not genuine.
In episode 2.5, furious about being dumped by Connor, Caroline attacks Rex, so as to avenge herself against Abby. She takes Rex to Leek, who pays a substantial bounty. When Caroline asks what the job was about, Leek offers to show her and takes her to see his secret facility, knowing that Cutter's team will attempt to retrieve Rex by triangulating the signal from Caroline's mobile phone – thereby leading them into Leek's trap.[14]
In episode 2.7, Caroline arrives to look at what Leek is actually doing with Rex. She is immediately repulsed, and keeps asking Leek why she cannot go home. Leek takes her and the rest of the team hostage. In their cell, she is threatened by Abby, and the two of them fight, punching and kicking each other. Connor splits them up, and Caroline thanks him. Connor replies "I didn't do it for you". She explains that she was money-driven and asks Connor for forgiveness. Not only does Connor accept her apology, but Abby saves Caroline's life from a sabre-toothed cat. Later on, as they escape, Caroline even shows sympathy to Rex, rescuing him after he is injured.[15]
Later on, Caroline is seen briefly at Stephen's funeral, despite the two characters never meeting on screen, and tries to remind Connor that he still has her mobile number.[15] She then leaves and does not return to the series.

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Connor Temple[edit]

Connor Temple

First appearance
episode 1.1
Portrayed by
Andrew-Lee Potts
Information

Gender
Male
Significant other(s)
Abby Maitland (wife)
Nationality
English
Connor Temple is played by Andrew-Lee Potts, who relates strongly to his character.[16] He is one of the main characters, a student of Palaeontology at the (fictional) Central Metropolitan University. He is one of a group of people who discover that prehistoric and extinct animals are passing through anomalies in time and space. When the Home Office assigns his professor Nick Cutter to tackling the problems these creatures cause, Connor tags along and is accepted as an aid to the rest of the team.
Connor is seen as a geek, he enjoys science fiction television and films such as Blake's 7, Battlestar Galactica and Star Wars.[17] He has an enormous interest in dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, and has created a database of prehistoric creatures. He is also interested in conspiracy theories and cryptozoology. It is this interest in these that piques his interest in a reported monster sighting (of a Gorgonopsid near the Forest of Dean), which he takes to Nick Cutter and eventually leads him and the others into discovering an Anomaly (Primeval) over the course of episode 1.1. At the beginning of series one, Connor is seen as a student of Nick Cutter, but one who does not attend many lectures, although he has already completed his dissertation. Later in episode 1.1, he claims he has 'sinus issues and allergies', but his database proves invaluable and he becomes part of the team. In episode 1.2, he admits he started the Duke of Edinburgh's Award, but did not complete it, due to a sprained ankle.
While Connor finds the idea of the time anomalies exciting, he questions his own usefulness after he leads Abby Maitland on a wild goose chase in episode 1.2, especially after being reprimanded for it. He is also admittedly unsettled and afraid of some of the more dangerous creatures. Later, he almost leaves the team after one of his friends is killed by a parasite from the past in episode 1.4, but is persuaded to stay by Cutter. He has a well known crush on Abby, who he is currently living with. Although, he ended up dating a girl named Caroline Steel in the alternate timeline.
Connor Temple still lives in Abby's flat in Series 2, and the pair still have a close bond. In episode 2.1 Abby and Connor seem to spend a lot more time together than they did in the previous series. Connor is also irritated by the fact that the rest of the team do not trust him with firearms. In episode 2.1 he accidentally shoots Abby with a tranquilliser dart intended for a baby Deinonychus and in episode 2.3 he shoots a costumed man playing the furry mascot of an adventure park, mistaking him for a sabre-toothed cat (though being such a poor shot, he fortunately does no real damage). Connor makes himself useful to the team by building, programming and operating the Anomaly Detection Device, based on Cutter's discovery that anomalies cause radio interference. Connor is also the first character to notice that the team is being followed by a mysterious man, who later turns out to have been working for Oliver Leek.
In the second series, Connor also gets a new girlfriend called Caroline Steel. Caroline and Connor meet in a DVD store and he invites her back to Abby's flat with him. After Connor nearly gets eaten by a giant worm in the episode and gets covered in giant worm slime, he accidentally wipes Caroline's number off his hand. Connor clearly worries about Caroline, and by the end of the episode seems to put her ahead of Abby, much to the latter's confusion. In episode 2.4, Connor is distraught when Abby is mistaken as dead, and searches for her. He does eventually find her, but is dragged into the future by a creature. When Abby is dangling from the side of a cliff, Connor tells her that he loves her. Abby later confronts Connor about this, but due to embarrassment, did not re-approach the matter, and went on a date with Caroline, leaving Abby upset and confused. In episode 2.5, Connor dumps Caroline after he believes that the two are not ideal for one another. (In fact, unknown to him, Caroline has been paid by Oliver Leek to spy on Connor.) This now opens him up to Abby, and seeks Stephen's help as he is still unsure of whether Abby is interested in him. Connor remained faithful to Abby throughout the final episode of the season, and drags her out of a fight with Caroline. Connor was shocked to find out that Caroline only went out with him because she was getting paid. Leek says that he and Connor are similar, saying that they are both "Uncool, nerdy and never get the attractive girls". To this Connor makes another sarcastic remark, saying "Speak for yourself". Connor is very caring towards Jenny, Abby and Caroline, whom he makes sure all climb the ladder to escape before he does. Finally, Connor is seen at the end of the episode at Stephen's funeral. He seems close to Abby, but surprisingly Caroline is invited to the funeral, despite the fact the two characters never met. Caroline reminds Connor he has her mobile number and then quickly leaves. As Connor and Abby themselves leave, Abby makes to hold Connor's hand, but Cutter receives an urgent call of a high-priority anomaly. In one of the final scenes, Connor is seen in the back of Cutter's car with a gun, suggesting that Cutter is trusting him with guns.
In the third season his and Abby's relationship continues to grow stronger, though neither continue to do anything about it. In episode 3.3 he adopts a pair of Diictodon trapped in the present, naming them Sid and Nancy. After the ARC exploded Connor ran back into the building to find Cutter. When he did he found that he had been shot. Connor wants to help him, but Cutter tells him to sit down and they start to talk. Cutter tells him that he is now in charge and has to carry on his work of tracking and exploring the anomalies. He then gives him the mysterious artefact that Helen was trying to work out what it was. Connor is then seen carrying Cutter's body out of the burning building and then after everyone realises he is dead he is seen crying and comforting a crying Abby. In episode 3.4 Connor was still distraught over his death, and set about creating a device to lock anomalies, and was worried when he heard Abby was hanging out with someone else. However it was only Abby's baby brother Jack, who was going to be staying at her flat, forcing him to move out for a while. He eventually moves in with James Lester after a short time staying in the ARC. In episode 3.6 he and Sarah Page get the artefact to open for a short while, revealing that it predicted anomalies and that Cutter had been right about its importance, and did his best to keep it safe when the team was hiding from Christine Johnson and a flock of terror birds. At the end of episode 3.8, Abby kisses Connor after she finds out from Jack, that Connor got Rex back after Jack lost him in a game of poker which he did as he didn't want to hurt Abby when she was already distraught. In episode 3.9 they agree to try to not make things weird between them, and realised Helen had invaded the ARC with Sarah. In the Series 3 finale he, Abby and Danny go in pursuit of Helen and he discovers that Helen will be the cause of Site 333, the location of the First Family, a group of thirteen homonids who all died mysteriously at once, from Helen poisoning them. Connor was injured while fighting a pack of raptors in the Cretaceous, and Abby stays with him in the while Danny pursues Helen. They are last seen hiding in a tree as night falls, talking about going home.
In episode 4.1, it is highlighted that Connor and Abby have been living in the Cretaceous period for a year. After a Velociraptor steals Abby's blanket, Connor goes to retrieve it from a Raptor's nest and finds Helen's anomaly device that she dropped in the series 3 finale. After using it to get back to the present, both are told by the ARC that they are fired, due to new regulations stating that employees must be from a military/police background (which neither are). Connor and Abby are a couple at this point, shown by the two kissing at the end of episode 4.1, and Abby saying that she is "his" (Connor's) girlfriend to Duncan in episode 4.2. In the same episode Connor decided to track down his old friend after not being reinstated like Abby, and came to learn of a Kaprosuchus that had been causing trouble, and after helping deal with the creature got his old job back. Connor accidentally trapped Philip and Rex in a room with the oxygen being sucked out in episode 4.3, and after rectifying the situation Philip thanked him, seeing his talent. In episode 4.4 he saved two students from Therocephalians, and didn't support Abby's campaign to save the menagerie creatures following Philip's plan to kill them all. In episode 4.5, Philip asked Connor to work for him at Prospero studying the anomalies, and Connor was unsure, not wanting to abandon the team. After learning that acid was what was affecting an unstable anomaly, he believed that a Labyrinthodont had killed Abby he attacked it in a rage, only to learn she was okay and asked her not to make him worry like that again. He then agreed to work for Philip, but only in his spare time. In episode 4.6 he and Abby meet up with Jenny when she is getting married, and Connor blurted out the possibility of him and Abby getting married, which helped to create more tension in the relationship, particularly after he hadn't supported Abby. In episode 4.7 he became worried after figuring out two anomalies had opened on the same spot, and began to look into the ARC's anomaly data, discovering they were going to continue multiplying. After telling Philip, he asked they keep it between them until they found a solution.
In episode 5.1 Philip shows him his machine called New Dawn, from which he hopes to take energy from anomalies and turn it into green energy, and assigned Connor an assistant named April Leonard when he agreed to help. He was later taken by a burrowing creature from the future, but survived, and came up with a plan to blow up the rest of the creatures in a warehouse. In episode 5.3 Connor was kept busy by April, and when he caught Abby near his lab she tried to appeal to him by revealing Helen and Philip's association, though Philip had told him this already (having made him believe Helen had only known of Philip), and was adamant Abby only wanted him away from Philip, creating further tension between them. At the end of the episode he created his own anomaly in the ARC, and in episode 5.4 told Abby he only wanted to do what he thought what would make Cutter proud, and his anomaly caused a swarm of future beetles to invade the ARC. Connor tried to make up for what he had done, and came up with a plan to kill all the beetles by closing his anomaly and unleashing a gamma ray, though only after Matt and Abby revealed they possessed a copy of his laptop's hard drive (which Matt had earlier blasted) in order to allow this. He later learned that Philip had tried to blow the building up, and then went through Prospero's files, learning of Philip and Helen's partnership and that Philip had created a larger version of his machine. In episode 5.5 he attempted to slow down Philip on the way to New Dawn, but when a Kaprosuchus attacked Philip refused to believe Connor's claims that New Dawn would destroy the world and was left behind. After being rescued by Abby, the two made up as Connor realised he should have trusted Abby over Philip. At the New Dawn facility he tried to go sabotage New Dawn, only to fail and fall through the anomaly as it opened. In the series finale he is rescued from a pack of Future Predators by Abby and Matt. He gave up hope until Abby whispered something in his ear which convinced him to continue. After returning he came up with a plan to merge his anomaly with the New Dawn one, which succeeded as it imploded. Once the crisis was over, it was revealed Abby had asked Connor to marry her while they had been in the future, which he agreed to.
Connor appears in two episodes of the spin-off series, Primeval: New World. He first appears in episode 1, The New World. He arrives in Vancouver to locate a handheld Anomaly Detector in Evan Cross's pocession. He first spots Evan and Tony Drake using his own version of a detector to try to locate an anomaly in Stanley Park. After breaking into the Tank, smooth-talking his way past Angelicka Finch, Connor finds the detector hidden in the frame of Evan's deceased wife. He later appears at the scene of Drake's death after a creature attack, and confronts Evan about the detector. He warns Evan of the dangers of tampering with the anomalies, and suggests that he leave the whole situation alone. However suspecting that Evan won't listens, he advises Evan to make sure that everything goes back to where it belongs before he leaves. He returns in the finale The Sound of Thunder, Part 2, chasing an Albertasaurus through the streets of London, using the new "Type V" EMD, and follows new ARC member Kieran through an anomaly into a Spaghetti Junction. Looking for Kieran, he instead comes upon Dylan Weir, and they work to rescue Evan in the Silurian, before they go to find Kieran in another anomaly. Upon returning to the Junction, Connor is taken into Colonel Hall's custody. He speaks with Mac, who was an ARC member in an alternate timeline, and convinces Ange to let him and Kieran go, warning her before he leaves through the anomaly that messing with them is bad news.
In the season finale of New World, Connor mentions that he has a wife, meaning that he and Abby have since gotten married following series 5.

Tom[edit]
Tom (Jake Curran) should not be confused with Tom Ryan, an SAS soldier. He is a friend of Connor and Duncan and a fellow geek. He appears to be the bossier 'leader' of Connor's friends and is the one that seems to come up with the 'plans' whereas Duncan is quite happy to follow, he also seems to be slightly more aggressive than Duncan, both with and without the parasite infecting him.
He also seems to enjoy conspiracy theories. Despite this he does not believe Connor when he tries to tell he and Duncan what he has been involved in without breaking the Official Secrets Act,[1] and he and Duncan devise their own conspiracy theories around the dodo that they capture (none of which are particularly rational).[2]
He is infected by a prehistoric parasite which makes him more aggressive, photophobic, and he attempts to pass on the parasite. He manages to avoid biting anyone apart from a doctor who was examining him. The team did not find him in time to save him which resulted in his death with his last words being "I'm a hero."[2]

W[edit]
Captain Wilder[edit]

Captain Wilder

First appearance
Episode 3.4
Last appearance
Episode 3.9
Portrayed by
Alex McSweeney
Information

Gender
Male
Occupation
Security
Captain Wilder, played by Alex McSweeney, is Christine Johnson's head of security in series 3. He takes an active role in several episodes and is Johnson's choice to succeed Nick Cutter as leader of the anomaly response team, as part of her plot to seize control of the ARC from James Lester. This fails, and Lester appoints Danny Quinn instead. It is also revealed that Captain Becker from the ARC knew Wilder at Sandhurst. Later Wilder is recognised by Danny at a distance, leading to the discovery that Wilder and Johnson have captured Eve (actually the disguised Helen Cutter) from the future. In episode 3.9 he points his gun at Helen who threatens to kill Johnston if the artefact is not given to her. In 3.10 a severed arm is seen and it is presumed to be his.

References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Episode 2". Primeval. Series 1. Episode 2. 10 February 2007. ITV.
2.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i "Episode 4". Primeval. Series 1. Episode 4. 3 March 2007. ITV.
3.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h "Episode 3". Primeval. Series 1. Episode 3. 24 February 2007. ITV.
4.^ Jump up to: a b c "Episode 5". Primeval. Series 1. Episode 5. 3 March 2007. ITV.
5.^ Jump up to: a b c "Episode 6". Primeval. Series 1. Episode 6. 3 March 2007. ITV.
6.Jump up ^ "Episode 1". Primeval. Series 1. Episode 1. 10 February 2007. ITV.
7.Jump up ^ Primeval 2:Primeval ITV Series 2: ITV Publicity Q & A
8.^ Jump up to: a b c Character profile on Official Primeval website
9.^ Jump up to: a b Primeval 2:Primeval ITV Series 2: ITV Publicity Q & A
10.Jump up ^ Primeval – The Team
11.Jump up ^ Primeval – The Team
12.^ Jump up to: a b Primeval ITV:Tom Ryan Factfile
13.Jump up ^ "Episode 1". Primeval. Series 2. Episode 1. 10 February 2008. ITV.
14.Jump up ^ "Episode 6". Primeval. Series 2. Episode 6. 25 March 2008. ITV.
15.^ Jump up to: a b "Episode 7". Primeval. Series 2. Episode 7. 31 March 2008. ITV.
16.Jump up ^ Radio Times interview with Andrew-Lee Potts
17.Jump up ^ Telegraph and Argus interview with Andrew-Lee Potts


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This is a list of books and novelisations for the ITV science fiction drama series Primeval.


Contents  [hide]
1 Novels for 12+
2 Novels for 14+
3 Activity books
4 Notes

Novels for 12+[edit]
These books are novelisations of episodes, published by Puffin Books in paperback.
# Title Author Publisher Released ISBN Episodes based on
1 A Rip in Time Kay Woodward Puffin Books 27 March 2008 13: 978-0141323916 1.1 and 1.2
2 Dangerous Dimension Kay Woodward Puffin Books 27 March 2008 13: 978-0141323923 1.3 and 1.4
3 The Lost Predator Alicia Brodersen Puffin Books 27 March 2008 13: 978-0141323930 1.5 and 1.6
4 Fight for Survival Alicia Brodersen Puffin Books 27 March 2008 13: 978-0141323947 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3
Novels for 14+[edit]
Four original novels, not novelisations of broadcast episodes, have been published by Titan Books. The first is Shadow of the Jaguar by Steven Savile, which revealed that anomalies do appear overseas. The second novel, written by acclaimed fantasy writer Paul Kearney, is entitled The Lost Island. The third, Extinction Event is by Dan Abnett who has also written "Torchwood" and "Doctor Who" books. The fourth and thus far final novel, entitled Fire and Water, is by Simon Guerrier and features Danny Quinn as lead character.[1]
# Title Author Publisher Released ISBN Set between Plot Summary
1 Shadow of the Jaguar Steven Savile Titan Books 21 March 2008 ISBN 978-1-84576-692-4 Episodes 2.3 & 2.4 A delirious backpacker crawls out of the dense Peruvian jungle, muttering about the impossible things that he has seen… A local ranger reports seeing animal tracks and bones - fresh bones - that he cannot explain… Cutter and the team are plunged into the hostile environment of the Peruvian rainforest, where they then must endure a perilous journey leading them to a confrontation with something more terrifying than they could ever have possible imagined…
2 The Lost Island Paul Kearney Titan Books 24 October 2008 ISBN 978-1-84576-694-8 Episodes 2.3 & 2.4 A trawler is torn to pieces by an enormous sea monster, off the Irish coast. Meanwhile, Connor's anomaly detector goes off the charts: Half a dozen rifts in time have appeared, all on one deserted - yet politically contentious - island… While Lester struggles to hold on to his career, as the story edges ever closer, to the front page, Cutter and his team must battle through a deadly storm, to reach the island, only to find themselves fighting to survive, amidst the terrifying creatures, roaming the harsh landscape…
3 Extinction Event Dan Abnett Titan Books 23 January 2009 ISBN 978-1-84576-693-1 Episodes 2.7 & 3.1 When an Entelodon goes on the rampage down Oxford Street, causing untold damage and loss of life, Cutter decides that a new approach to tackling the anomalies is needed. However, his investigations then expose him and the team to a violent encounter with a mysterious Russian scientist, and a situation more catastrophic and frightening than they have ever faced, before… When Cutter, Abby, and Connor disappear without a trace, Lester and Jenny must use every trick in the book to try to track them down…
4 Fire and Water Simon Guerrier Titan Books 27 April 2009 ISBN 978-1-84576-695-5 Episodes 3.5 & 3.6 At a safari park in South Africa, rangers are inexplicably disappearing, and strange creatures have been seen battling with lions and hippopotamuses. As the team investigates, they are drawn into a dark conspiracy, which could have dire consequences. Meanwhile, back in London, Connor, Abby, and Sarah are left to cope on their own. As torrential rain pours down over the city, and enormous anomaly opens up in East London…
Activity books[edit]
Ladybird Books has published two sticker books (one of which is a glow in the dark sticker book) a poster book, a tattoo activity title, a wipe-clean activity book, and a summer annual for children from five to eight years old.[2]
# Title Publisher Released ISBN
1 Primeval: Sticker Collection E-Max November 2007 TBA
2 Primeval: Stats & Facts Poster Book Ladybird Books November 2007 ISBN 1-84646-806-X
3 Primeval: Anomaly Activity Book Ladybird Books November 2007 ISBN 1-84646-807-8
4 Primeval: Activity Annual Ladybird Books March 2008 ISBN 1-84646-894-9
5 Primeval: Funfax Dorling Kindersley March 2008 ISBN 1-4053-2919-X
6 Primeval: Glow in the Dark Sticker Book Ladybird Books March 2008 ISBN 1-84646-871-X
7 Primeval: Tattoo Activity Book Ladybird Books October 2008 ISBN 1-84646-872-8
8 Primeval: Monster Wipe-out Games Book Ladybird Books October 2008 ISBN 1-84646-972-4
9 Primeval: Midnight Terror Trail Activity Book Ladybird Books March 2009 ISBN 1-4093-0237-7
10 Primeval: Brain Twisters Sticker Book Ladybird Books March 2009 ISBN 1-4093-0236-9
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Titan Books category listing for "Primeval"
2.Jump up ^ "Primeval and Primeval 2 ITV series: News page and development". Douglashenshall.com. Retrieved 1 January 2011.


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This is a list of episodes for the British television drama series Primeval. It premiered on ITV on 10 February 2007 and ran for five series and 36 episodes in total. It was cancelled in June 2009 after the third series, with the network stating it was struggling to fund any more original programming. On 29 September 2009, the station announced it had formed a deal with the digital channels Watch, BBC America, and German broadcaster Pro7, to recommission the programme for the fourth and fifth series. Series 5 of six episodes began on 24 May 2011 on digital channel Watch[1] and was repeated on ITV from 16 June 2012.[2][3]


Contents  [hide]
1 Series overview
2 Episode list 2.1 Series 1 (2007)
2.2 Series 2 (2008)
2.3 Series 3 (2009)
2.4 Series 4 webisodes (2010)
2.5 Series 4 (2011)
2.6 Series 5 (2011)
3 References
4 External links

Series overview[edit]
The first series revolves around "the team" forming, following several creature attacks in the Forest of Dean, as well as Nick Cutter's search for Helen Cutter, his missing wife, who had suddenly reappeared after eight years. Throughout the series, Nick becomes romantically involved with James Lester's PA, Claudia Brown. In the first series' finale Cutter travels through a time anomaly, and upon his return he discovers that Claudia Brown no longer exists, and the timeline has changed. In Series 2, Cutter adjusts to the new timeline while hunting for a traitor in the group. It marks the last appearance of the character Stephen Hart, who dies at the end of the series. In the third series, Cutter is killed, while Jason Flemyng joins the cast as Police Officer Danny Quinn. Ben Mansfield also joins as Captain Becker, the team's armed support, replacing Stephen Hart. The climax has Connor, Abby and Quinn pursuing Helen through anomalies to prevent her exterminating the human ancestors. They succeed, Helen is killed, but they remain trapped in past eras.
A year later, both in real and series time, Series 4 began (introduced by a webisode prologue) with Lester now reporting to an industrialist, Philip Burton, who has secret plans to use anomalies, and with a new team leader, Matt Anderson. Abby and Connor return and have to win back their places on the team.

Series
Episodes
Originally aired (UK dates)

Series premiere
Series finale
1 6 10 February 2007 17 March 2007
2 7 12 January 2008 23 February 2008
3 10 28 March 2009 6 June 2009
4 7 1 January 2011 5 February 2011
5 6 24 May 2011 28 June 2011
Episode list[edit]
Series 1 (2007)[edit]

Overall
 number
Episode
Director
Writer(s)
Original air date
UK viewers[4]
 (million)

1
"Episode 1" Cilla Ware Adrian Hodges 10 February 2007 7.09
A sighting of a strange creature occurs on the outskirts of the Forest of Dean, leading a small team of scientists and government officials to investigate it. They find a Scutosaurus in the forest and discover a time anomaly that leads to the late Permian period, 250 million years ago. The team soon realise that a Gorgonopsid also came through and they must find it before it kills anyone.
2
"Episode 2" Cilla Ware Adrian Hodges 17 February 2007 6.29
After a London Underground cleaner is fatally bitten by some type of giant bug, James Lester brings the team together to investigate. They find another anomaly that leads to the late Carboniferous, and a colony of Giant Spiders that have come through. Using powerful lights to send the spiders back, the team are then attacked by the true killer. An Arthropleura, which bites and poisons Stephen. The race is now on to extract a sample of venom from the giant arthropod to synthesise an antivenom before Stephen dies.
3
"Episode 3" Cilla Ware Adrian Hodges 24 February 2007 6.17
A man at a local swimming pool is killed by a Cretaceous Mosasaur when an anomaly appears there. But when the anomaly disappears and reopens several miles away in a reservoir, Cutter realizes that the anomalies have the ability to move, and his theory is confirmed when the anomaly opens for a third time in a residential basement, where a plumber is attacked there by a Hesperornis. When the team find proof that Cutter's wife, Helen, is alive in the past, Cutter is ordered through the anomaly to find and bring her back.
4
"Episode 4" Jamie Payne Richard Kurti and Bev Doyle 3 March 2007 5.81
Helen escapes from custody at the Home Office by taking the team to an anomaly that unleashes a flock of dodos. These dodos are carrying deadly parasites capable of infecting humans. Unknown to the team, Connor's friends Tom and Duncan capture one of the dodos, but when Tom is infected by the parasite and goes on the rampage, Cutter and the team must find him before they have a pandemic on their hands.
5
"Episode 5" Jamie Payne Chris Lang 10 March 2007 6.46
A Pteranodon turns up at a golf course, and a golfer is killed. Cutter and his team go to investigate and find the anomaly up in the air. The team track the flying reptile down to send it back to its time, but Cutter and Claudia become trapped in a mansion by a flock of bloodthirsty Anurognathus. As Cutter goes to get help, Claudia finds salvation in the unlikely hands of Helen Cutter.
6
"Episode 6" Jamie Payne Adrian Hodges 17 March 2007 6.52
Helen Cutter returns and informs the team that she has seen a highly evolved predator from the future enter the present day. After dispatching the adult creature, Nick and Helen decide to take its young back through the anomaly in the Forest of Dean, hoping to locate the anomaly to the future, a decision that proves to be a mistake when the creatures break free. Upon his return to the present Cutter is shocked to discover that Claudia Brown has disappeared and apparently never existed in this world.
Series 2 (2008)[edit]

Overall
 number
Episode
Director
Writer(s)
Original air date
UK viewers[4]
 (million)

7
"Episode 1" Jamie Payne Adrian Hodges 12 January 2008 6.32
As Cutter tries to come to terms with Claudia Brown's disappearance, he struggles to adjust to working with her replacement, the slimy Oliver Leek. Meanwhile, bloodthirsty raptors are rampaging through a shopping mall and the team are called in to deal with the situation. When the team arrives back at the ARC, they are introduced to Jenny Lewis, the ARC's new PR officer, and a doppelgänger of Claudia Brown.
8
"Episode 2" Andrew Gunn Adrian Hodges 19 January 2008 6.05
Cutter and his team find themselves pursuing giant, carnivorous worms that start to appear through an eerie fog in a local office block after emerging through another anomaly. As the team deals with the problem, Cutter becomes preoccupied with the team's new PR executive, Jenny Lewis, whom he is convinced is actually Claudia Brown.
9
"Episode 3" Jamie Payne Richard Kurti and Bev Doyle 26 January 2008 6.27
Connor's new anomaly detector is set up in the ARC, but there are fears that the device will not work when another violent attack is reported at Blue Sky Park. Investigations lead the team to deduce the attacks took place before the detector came online. The team discover a Sabre-toothed cat is roaming the park, killing at will, but as their hunt continues, they begin to suspect someone knows of the creature's presence and is covering up for it.
10
"Episode 4" Jamie Payne Cameron McAllistor 2 February 2008 6.39
After a teenager mysteriously disappears, the team investigate, and narrowly save Jenny from death at the jaws of a highly unusual shark lurking in the Thames. Cutter is convinced that the creature's unique morphology is the result of further evolution – that it's a species from the future. They then split up to find the creature's lair but trouble brews when Abby is dragged through an anomaly by another carnivorous species from the future: the Mer.
11
"Episode 5" Andrew Gunn Ben Court and Caroline Ip 9 February 2008 6.33
A young girl searching for her dog ends up stuck on the other side of an anomaly, leading Cutter and Stephen to mount a rescue mission into the sandy deserts of the Silurian. But when the anomaly closes, the trio end up trapped with a horde of giant Silurian Scorpions which track them from hearing vibrations in the sand. As the three of them fight for survival, Cutter realises they are not alone: someone is actively trying to sabotage their work.
12
"Episode 6" Nick Murphy Paul Cornell 16 February 2008 6.44
A Columbian Mammoth slips through an anomaly, rampaging along the M25 scattering cars and lorries in its wake. As Cutter and the rest of the team take on the task of stopping it, Stephen is shocked when Helen returns with plans of her own. After taking the Mammoth back to the ARC, Cutter decides to set a trap to root out the traitor in their midst, leaving Lester to fight for his life against a Future Predator that has infiltrated the ARC.
13
"Episode 7" Nick Murphy Adrian Hodges 23 February 2008 6.20
Cutter and the team are kidnapped and held in a military bunker by Oliver Leek, who has plans to be the most powerful man in the world using an army of fearsome predators he has captured from past anomalies, while his ally, Helen, furthers her own nefarious schemes. As the team fight for their survival, Stephen deals with a Silurian Scorpion which Leek has unleashed onto a busy beach. Back at the bunker, the team have found a way to stop Leek, but at the cost of Stephen's life.
Series 3 (2009)[edit]

Overall
 number
Episode
Director
Writer(s)
Original air date
UK viewers[4]
 (million)

14
"Episode 1" Tony Mitchell Steve Bailie 23 March 2009 (Germany)
 28 March 2009 (UK) 5.89
An exhibition of ancient Egyptian relics comes to the British Museum and an anomaly opens in a mysterious monument called the ‘Sun Cage’. A Pristichampsus, believed in Ancient Egypt to be the demon Ammut, emerges and proceeds to wreak havoc in London. Cutter, Abby, Jenny and new security chief, Captain Becker (Ben Mansfield), pursue it through the city while Connor and new recruit, the Egyptologist Sarah Page (Laila Rouass) try to stop more creatures coming through, and make some interesting discoveries about anomalies in the process. Meanwhile, Lester encounters a new adversary: the devious and ambitious Christine Johnson, who is after a strange artifact that Helen has stolen.
15
"Episode 2" Cilla Ware James Moran 30 March 2009 (Germany)
 4 April 2009 (UK) 4.94
Three teenage boys break into a house and a 'Gremlin' (a future beast able to camouflage itself in any environment) attacks them. Only one boy manages to escape alive. Fourteen years later, in the present-day, Cutter predicts an anomaly will appear in the same house the boys were killed. He sends Jenny, Abby & Connor to investigate. However, their efforts are thwarted by the creature and the attentions of policeman Danny Quinn, who is investigating his brother's disappearance 14 years before. Meanwhile, Cutter, Becker and Sarah are caught off-guard when Helen's forces attempt to infiltrate the ARC.
16
"Episode 3" Tony Mitchell Mike Cullen 6 April 2009 (Germany)
 11 April 2009 (UK) 3.28
An anomaly opens at the West London Hospital, causing cute but dangerous Diictodon to emerge. They promptly chew through the power cables, cutting the power to the building. Cutter, Abby, Connor and Becker arrive to investigate and evacuate the building as does journalist Mick Harper from Evening News HQ, who wants to get evidence of the creatures to expose to the public. However, they return to find Helen and her Cleaner Replica troops (including a clone of Cutter) have taken over the ARC, so they can interrogate the real Cutter about the artifact. As a bomb blast tears the ARC apart and the team battle for survival, Helen declares that she must stop the ARC'S research from destroying the world at any cost...even if it means killing her husband.
17
"Episode 4" Mark Everest Paul Mousley 18 April 2009 4.97
Mick Harper steals an anomaly detector from Jenny's car and uses it to track down an anomaly at an airport, bringing Nigel Marven with him to identify any creatures that come through. Yet when a Giganotosaurus from comes through the anomaly, the team has to not only stop the bloodthirsty dinosaur destroying the airport and a nearby aircraft, but prevent the journalists broadcasting its existence to the world. Danny Quinn appears and helps them, then refuses to leave.
18
"Episode 5" Mark Everest Catherine Linstrum and Paul Mousley 25 April 2009 5.20
Danny Quinn breaks into the ARC and is drafted in to help the team when a fast-growing flesh-eating fungus from the future is transferred to the present and infects a businessman, Sir Richard Bentley. Danny arrives with flamethrowers to try and burn Bentley as he is already infected not realising fire doesn't work. The team manage to bring the creature back to the ARC to destroy it, where Jenny is trapped in the freezing cold main operations area with it and forced to fight for her life. After her recent discovery of Cutter's picture of Claudia Brown and her near-death experience, Jenny decides that she's had enough: she resigns from her job at the ARC, leaving Danny in charge of the team.
19
"Episode 6" Cilla Ware Paul Farrell 2 May 2009 5.27
With Jenny Lewis's departure and Nick Cutter's death, Danny Quinn is made the new leader of the team. When Christine Johnson and her soldiers take over the ARC in search of the artifact, the team escape to an old cabin on Ministry of Defence property within a minefield which has been abandoned since the 1930s. As Johnson ousts Lester and imposes her will on the ARC staff, Becker must find a way to defeat her. At the same time, with no weapons but their own initiative, Danny, Connor, Abby and Sarah have to find a way to defend themselves, not only from Johnson's soldiers, but from a pack of rampaging terror birds that emerge from a nearby anomaly.
20
"Episode 7" Richard Curson Smith Andrew Rattenbury 9 May 2009 5.34
A Dracorex comes through an anomaly, trying to escape from a 14th-century knight who believes he is hunting a dragon. The team are forced to find and save the life of the Dracorex, and then, aided with a bit of medieval research by Sarah, return the confused knight, who thinks he is a new Saint George, to his own world before he kills anyone, out of belief they are demons and he is in hell.
21
"Episode 8" Richard Curson Smith Cameron McAllister 16 May 2009 5.13
An anomaly opens at a race car test track and a Megopteran, an insect from the future, comes through. It is carnivorous and lethal, and the team must draw on all their resources to get it back to its home. However, things get complicated when Jack decides to find out what his sister Abby really does for a living, and inadvertently drives through an anomaly into the future: a post-apocalyptic world overrun by future predators. Now the team must mount a desperate rescue mission after Jack, and then find a way to escape with their lives.
22
"Episode 9" Matthew Thompson Paul Farrell 23 May 2009 4.97
The team have to deal with a herd of Embolotherium from the Eocene. Danny arrives with a mysterious woman called Eve who he first saw in the future; having rescued her from Christine Johnson, they endeavour to save everyone from the stampede. When the anomaly closes, at a campsite, Eve opens another anomaly to return the beasts and are all saved. Upon their return to the ARC, the team are shocked to discover that Eve is Helen Cutter in disguise, who takes Johnson hostage. Holding her at gunpoint, Helen steals the artifact, pushes Johnson through an anomaly to be butchered by future predators, and vows once again to stop the ARC's work from destroying the world. The team decide they must stop Helen before she kills anyone else.
23
"Episode 10" Matthew Thompson Steve Bailie 6 June 2009 4.95
Sarah & Becker investigate an anomaly that re-opens at Johnson's HQ and end up fighting for their lives against Megopterans, while Danny, Abby and Connor hunt for Helen in the future. The trio discover Helen plans to prevent the evolution of mankind in order to save the world, resulting in a chase across Cretaceous North America and into Pliocene Africa. Danny confronts Helen at the location of the human ancestor, Australopithecus, only to find she has poisoned a small group already. Helen delights in her apparent victory, but a Raptor that followed Danny through the anomaly charges at Helen and knocks her off a cliff, killing them both. Having ensured the other hominids have survived, Danny then makes his way back to the anomaly, but it vanishes just before he reaches it.
Series 4 webisodes (2010)[edit]
ITV released a series of 5 webisodes[5] on 23 December 2010, 2–4 minutes long, that provided background to the upcoming series 4. Also available on BBC America.[6]

Webisode
 number
Episode
Director
Writer
Original air date

W1
"Episode 1" Tim Bradley Sarah Dollard 23 December 2010
Interview with James Lester and Captain Becker about the disappearance of team members (at the end of series 3). Introduction of Jess Parker as team coordinator with Matt Anderson and Phillip. Sarah Page's death is revealed.[7]
W2
"Episode 2" Tim Bradley Sarah Dollard 23 December 2010
Becker arrives at the new ARC HQ. New team leader Matt Anderson[7] is shown to have a secret agenda, reporting to "Gideon".[7]
W3
"Episode 3" Tim Bradley Sarah Dollard 23 December 2010
Matt Anderson begins work at the ARC and meets the team.
W4
"Episode 4" Tim Bradley Sarah Dollard 23 December 2010
Matt addresses and impresses the newly formed ARC team.
W5
"Episode 5" Tim Bradley Sarah Dollard 23 December 2010
The team successfully deals with creature attacks. Matt reports to an impatient Gideon.
Series 4 (2011)[edit]

Overall
 number
Episode
Director
Writer(s)
Original air date
UK viewers[8]
 (million)

24
"Episode 1"[10][11] Mark Everest[12] Paul Mousley 1 January 2011 4.45 (16.8%)[13]
(Overnight rating)
After a year trapped in the Cretaceous period, Abby and Connor finally return to the present, followed by a giant Spinosaurus, the longest known carnivorous dinosaur. The new ARC team responds. Eventually, the Spinosaurus is returned to the Cretaceous period, when Connor causes an anomaly to implode, from within it.[9] In a reference to Hannah Spearit's previous career as a member of S Club 7, Don't Stop Movin' plays as a distraction to the Spinosaurus.
25
"Episode 2"[11] Mark Everest[14] Steve Bailie 2 January 2011 3.29 (12.7%)[15]
(Overnight rating)
Connor and his old friend, Duncan, track an elusive Kaprosuchus (or Boar crocodile) to the docks, and find evidence of a fresh kill. After bringing it down by using their EMD weapons, Connor and Abby then win back their places, on the team.
26
"Episode 3"[11] Cilla Ware[16] Debbie Oates 8 January 2011 4.17[17]
Three 19th-century humans come through an anomaly in a theatre, and are followed by deadly "Tree Creepers", arboreal raptor-like creatures. One of the time travellers, Ethan, is a killer and another, Emily, appeals to Matt to help catch him. After the team deals with the Tree Creepers, Matt tells Emily that he is going to help her to track down Ethan.
27
"Episode 4" Cilla Ware Paul Gerstenberger 15 January 2011 4.15[17]
Dozens of venomous Therocephalians are stalking a school's corridors and a detention class becomes a bloodbath when a teacher and a student are killed. Connor and some students use chemical warfare to finally subdue the creatures. In the ARC, Abby's menagerie is under threat, when Philip Burton threatens to kill them. However, with a little bit of help from James Lester, Abby eventually manages to subdue Burton, thus allowing her creatures, to live. Meanwhile, over at Matt's Flat, Emily is kidnapped by Ethan.
28
"Episode 5" Robert Quinn Adrian Hodges & John Fay 22 January 2011 4.21[17]
Connor, Abby, and Matt are sent to a coastal village, where they discover that a farmer and her son are concealing a Labyrinthodont, which has been attacking the local cattle and has killed a tourist. After it kills the two villainous farmers, Connor and Abby then force it back through the anomaly, while Matt follows the tracker Emily carried to a cemetery where Ethan has taken her and left her bound and gagged inside a coffin. Matt rescues Emily, but Ethan escapes. Gideon warns Matt that Ethan presents a terrible danger to humanity, much like Helen Cutter did.
29
"Episode 6" Robert Quinn Matthew Parkhill 29 January 2011 3.83[17]
An anomaly allows a pack of Hyaenodons to make their home in the wine cellar of a stately home, where Jenny Lewis is getting married. The wolf-like creatures eat the wedding planner. Jenny and the team subdue them using medieval weaponry. Meanwhile, Becker narrowly escapes a lethal boobytrap set by Ethan, after Jess saves him; Lester remotely conducts Jenny's marriage. Gideon's "home" is shown – a blasted desolate world.[18] He finally dies from his illness, and he is then revealed to be Matt's father.
30
"Episode 7"[19] Mark Everest Paul Mousley 5 February 2011 4.09 (15.4%)[17]
A pair of anomalies opens in a prison, one to the Pliocene allowing a Terror Bird to attack, and Danny Quinn to return. He meets Ethan and realises that he is his lost younger brother. Matt reveals that he is from the future, and trying to prevent an apocalypse involving the anomalies. Emily returns to the 19th Century. Danny warns the team that Philip Burton was involved with Helen Cutter, then he follows Ethan into the Pliocene. Connor discovers that the incidence of anomalies is increasing, and is potentially dangerous.
Series 5 (2011)[edit]

Overall
 number
Episode
Director
Writer(s)
Original air date
UK viewers
 (million)

31
"Episode 1"[1] Mark Everest Chris Lang 24 May 2011 0.857[20] (Watch) 2.91 (ITV1)
After a road worker falls into a giant opening and is killed by a Giant Burrowing Insect, presumed from the future, the ARC team are called in to investigate. Meanwhile, Philip introduces Connor to Prospero's New Dawn which will extract energy from the anomalies and stop the world's energy crisis. Philip also assigns Connor an assistant, April, to keep an eye on him. Connor joins the team tracking down the burrower, and is himself captured, and taken to its nest, and is rescued by Matt. Matt reveals his origin in the future and his mission to prevent the ARC causing a disaster to Abby and asks for her help.
32
"Episode 2" Robert Quinn Steve Bailie 31 May 2011 0.761[20]
When a submarine encounters an anomaly and a prehistoric creature out at sea, Matt, Abby and Conner are brought aboard to investigate. Their plans to contain the creature and seal the anomaly prove difficult, especially when the submarine loses power and is pulled through the anomaly to the seas of the Jurassic Era. With a young but dangerous theropod aboard the submarine, the ARC team then work alongside their naval counterparts to restore power and return through the anomaly before it closes or before they are attacked by an oncoming pod of Liopleurodon. Back at the ARC, Lester and Jess have a battle of their own as they try and dissuade an admiral from nuking the anomaly. At the end of the episode Abby reveals to Matt what happened to Emily after she returned to the 19th century.
33
"Episode 3" Robert Quinn Paul Mousley & Gabbie Asher 7 June 2011 0.755[20]
An anomaly alert brings the team to an art gallery where they encounter a Raptor. The team send the creature through an anomaly only it turns out it leads to Victorian London. Matt follows the raptor through to prevent it killing anyone. Matt tracks down the raptor but finds Emily who is doing the same. The pair then find themselves accused of being the mysterious Spring-heeled Jack, killing several people actually killed by the raptor. Matt and Emily eventually stun the raptor and send it back. Matt reveals to Emily that her husband plans to have her confined in a madhouse and the pair head back to the present, being followed through the anomaly by her husband, Henry, who holds Matt at gunpoint. The raptor awakes and kills Henry. Back at the ARC, Abby breaks into Connor's lab and copies the information on his computer, however Connor catches her. The episode concludes with Connor and April creating the first man-made anomaly.
34
"Episode 4" Robert Quinn Helen Raynor 14 June 2011 0.650[20]
Connor uses his device to open an anomaly within the ARC. The team come to close it, but are ordered out of the lab by Philip who heads to New Dawn to collect data from the device. Connor tells Abby the purpose of the anomaly. Back at the ARC, a swarm of Future Beetles and their enormous queen come through the anomaly and kill a guard before spreading throughout the building after chewing through reinforced concrete. The ARC goes into lockdown trapping Matt, Connor, Abby, Becker, Emily and Jess inside and they are forced to fight for survival. Jess is bitten by one of the bugs and has a reaction to the bite, slipping into unconsciousness while the team's initial plan to poison the creatures fails. Connor says he can trigger a gamma ray burst from his anomaly but Matt has already disabled the computer control. Matt is forced to reveal that he and Abby have a copy of the data on Connor's computer and they then use it to sterilise the ARC while they take cover in a panic room. Becker gets Jess the adrenaline she needs while Connor discovers that Philip had tried to incinerate the ARC with the team inside, and that he had been in communication with Helen Cutter.
35
"Episode 5" Cilla Ware Michael A. Walker 21 June 2011 0.477[20]
The ARC team is rushed off their feet and forced to split up when anomalies begin to open worldwide with creatures from many different eras slipping into the present day, including a Tyrannosaurus which goes on a rampage through central London. The anomalies and the creatures are finally public knowledge. At New Dawn, Philip's device is activated with Matt and Emily racing to the scene to stop them. Abby and Connor join them while Becker, Lester, and Jess deal with the ongoing creature threat. Philip's device goes online and manages to seal the other anomalies by incorporating their energy into one large anomaly at the centre of the device, but Matt is certain that this is the beginning of the end. With time running out, Connor attempts to sabotage the machine at New Dawn but ends up being pulled through the giant anomaly to an unknown location.
36
"Episode 6" Cilla Ware Steve Bailie & Adrian Hodges 28 June 2011[21] 0.496[20]
After failing to stop Philip and having been pulled through the New Dawn anomaly, Connor finds himself in a barren wasteland where Future Predators are the only obvious life. At New Dawn, Matt and Abby go through the anomaly to rescue Connor. In the future, Matt, Connor and Abby take shelter in an underground bunker as a vicious storm rages on the surface while back at the ARC Connor's original anomaly reopens. The anomaly at New Dawn starts to cause atmospheric changes to the planet and as chaos breaks loose Philip realises Helen Cutter has been using him to achieve her goal of destroying humanity. Matt, Connor and Abby are able to fight off Future Predators and make it back to the present. With their help Philip is able to gain control of New Dawn once more and Philip decides to sacrifice himself to destroy the installation with the hope that the anomaly will close. New Dawn is destroyed but the giant anomaly continues to grow. Back at the ARC several Future Predators come through Connor's anomaly leaving Lester and Jess to hunt the beasts alone until the team returns. At the ARC the team join forces to defeat the Future Predators and Connor comes up with a plan to merge his miniature anomaly with the giant one and hopefully close them both. Using a containment device, the team are able to take the miniature anomaly to the New Dawn site where Matt drives it into the giant anomaly causing them to implode. Matt survives and the team are reunited and return to duties at the ARC. With everything seemingly back to normal and Connor and Abby going to get married, a new anomaly is detected and as the team head out to the field, Matt comes face to face with a battered version of himself who says: "You have to go back". Matt realizes this could be a warning, from a different future.
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b "'Primeval' return date confirmed by Watch". digitalspy.co.uk. Retrieved 29 March 2011.
2.Jump up ^ ITV TV Guide. Retrieved 10 June 2012
3.Jump up ^ Primeval Returns to ITV1 in June Cultfix. 4 June 2012
4.^ Jump up to: a b c "BARB". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board. Retrieved 11 December 2010.
5.Jump up ^ "Exclusive episodes". ITV. 23 December 2010. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
6.Jump up ^ "Primeval videos". BBCAmerica. 23 December 2010. Retrieved 4 January 2011.
7.^ Jump up to: a b c "Webisode credits". ITV. 23 December 2010. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
8.Jump up ^ "TV Ratings Roundups – TV – News". Digital Spy. Retrieved 31 January 2011.
9.Jump up ^ "New Era Begins (Full original press release)". thefutoncritic.com. Futon Critic. Retrieved 2 December 2010.[dead link]
10.Jump up ^ "A New Era of Primeval Begins New Year’s Day (press release)". TV By the Numbers. 2 December 2010. Retrieved 11 December 2010.
11.^ Jump up to: a b c "Shows A-Z – primeval on bbc america". the Futon Critic. Retrieved 12 December 2010.
12.Jump up ^ http://www.radiotimes.com/ListingsServlet?event=10&channelId=26&programmeId=154665388&jspLocation=/jsp/prog_details_fullpage.jsp[dead link]
13.Jump up ^ Millar, paul (2 January 2011). "TV – News – BBC Two's 'Eric & Ernie' logs 6.1m". Digital Spy. Retrieved 31 January 2011.
14.Jump up ^ http://www.radiotimes.com/ListingsServlet?event=10&channelId=26&programmeId=154676714&jspLocation=/jsp/prog_details_fullpage.jsp[dead link]
15.Jump up ^ Laughlin, Andrew (3 January 2011). "TV – News – 'Famous And Fearless' launches with 2m". Digital Spy. Retrieved 31 January 2011.
16.Jump up ^ http://www.radiotimes.com/ListingsServlet?event=10&channelId=26&programmeId=154743553&jspLocation=/jsp/prog_details_fullpage.jsp[dead link]
17.^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Weekly Top 30 Programmes". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board. Retrieved 8 February 2011.
18.Jump up ^ "Episode 4.6". Primeval. Series 3. Episode 6. 29 January 2011. 2:22–2:50 minutes in. ITV. Gideon says "I was dreaming of home." Also see SFX Primeval Episode 4.06 Review "So that landscape Matt was dreaming about back in episode one is his home."
19.Jump up ^ "Primeval Episode Guide and Episode List". Tvguide.co.uk. Retrieved 31 January 2011.
20.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f "Weekly Top 10 Programmes". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board. Retrieved 14 June 2011.
21.Jump up ^ Primeval at TVGuide.co.uk UK TV Listings Guide
General references that apply to most episodes"Primeval on BBC America". TV Guide. Retrieved 12 December 2010.
"Shows A-Z – primeval on bbc america". the Futon Critic. Retrieved 12 December 2010.
External links[edit]
List of Primeval episodes at the Internet Movie Database
List of Primeval episodes at TV.com
Primeval at epguides.com


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The following is a complete list of creatures from the universe of ITV science fiction television series Primeval and also any spin-off media, including Primeval: New World ("PNW"). The series includes various imaginary species which are not native to the series setting, with some being prehistoric and others being futuristic. Various creatures were designed with some artistic license, for dramatic effect.[1] A number of creatures from the Walking with... series were also reimagined for dramatic effect.
In 2007 Character Options announced they would create Primeval action figures, including both a flying Rex and a large plush toy Rex, Future Predators, Hesperornis and Dodos.


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Albertosaurus[edit]

Albertosaurus sarcophagus
Albertosaurus sarcophagus copia.jpg
Home era
Late Cretaceous
First appearance
 (Primeval: New World)
Episode 1.1
Last appearance
 (Primeval: New World)
Episode 1.13
Number
1
Humans killed
2 (counting alternate version of Mac Rendall)
Returned to era?
1.1 – Returned through anomaly on its own.
 1.13 – Unknown
Albertosaurus is a predatory theropod dinosaur, a member of the Tyrannosauridae. In Primeval: New World, an Albertosaurus killed and devoured Brooke, Evan Cross' wife and an alternate timeline version of Mac Rendall. In the series, its preorbital horns are greatly enlarged, similar to those of a Carnotaurus with similar skin textures. Evan encounters the same Albertosaurus as a hallucination after accidentally ingesting the snot of a Pachycephalosaurus. On close inspection, the Albertosaurus can be recognised by its missing right arm, and its body was covered in numerous old cuts and slashes.

Allosaurus[edit]

Allosaurus

Home era
Jurassic
Appears in
The Lost Island
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 1.1
Last appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 3.10
Number
7
Humans killed
0
Returned to era?
No
Allosaurus is a large Theropod dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Jurassic. Allosaurus was a large carnivorous dinosaur with a length of up to 12 m (39 ft), and 5 m (16 ft) tall. The animal had a skull that measured 4 m (12 ft) long, with a pair of blunt crests just above its eyes, in the orbital region. It had a strong S-shaped neck, and had vertebrae that was different from those of other dinosaurs
Allosaurus also had a large powerful jaw with long, sharp, serrated teeth that were 51–102 mm (2–4 in) long. These teeth were curved inward, shaped like a "D" to help secure its prey. It had a bulky body, a massive tail and thick bones. Its arms were short and had three fingered hands, with sharp claws that were up to 152 mm (6 in) long. Allosaurus was one of the largest meat-eating dinosaurs of the Late Jurassic, 156-145 MYA, and was also one of the largest predators until the tyrannosaurs appeared 50 million years later.

Ammonite[edit]

Ammonite
Asteroceras BW.jpg
Home era
Cretaceous or earlier
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 1.1
Last appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 2.7
Returned to era?
No. Died out of water.
Ammonites are a group of marine animals of the subclass Ammonoidea in the class Cephalopoda, phylum Mollusca. Ammonites' closest living relative is probably not the modern Nautilus (which they outwardly resemble), but rather the subclass Coleoidea (octopus, squid, and cuttlefish). Their fossil shells usually take the form of planispirals, although there were some helically spiralled and non-spiralled forms (known as "heteromorphs"). Many Ammonites lived in the open water of ancient seas, rather than at the sea bottom. Many of them are thought to have been good swimmers with flattened, discus-shaped, streamlined shells. Ammonites preyed on fish, crustaceans and other small creatures; while they themselves were preyed upon by marine reptiles.
Helen Cutter leaves Ammonites as calling cards on Nick Cutter's desk, and on Stephen Hart's grave in episode 2.7.

Anatotitan[edit]

Anatotitan
Anatotitan BW.jpg
Home era
Late Cretaceous
Appears in
Extinction Event
Number
A large herd
In Extinction Event, the first large dinosaurs the kidnapped team spot are Anatotitan, which are described as large hadrosaurs that move in large herds, stampeding whenever they are threatened by a predator such as the Tyrannosaurus. They were said to be a yellow-brown color with dark brown camouflage stripes down their back, similar to the Iguanodon in The Lost Island.

Ankylosaurus[edit]

Ankylosaurus
Ankylosaurus dinosaur.png
Home era
Late Cretaceous
Appears in
Extinction Event
Number
At least one in the present, two in the Cretaceous
In Extinction Event, Ankylosaurs are seen a couple of times, at first one plods harmlessly through the team's campsite, and prove to be resistant to gunfire, and later Jenny and the soldiers accompanying her are almost killed after an angered Ankylosaurus hits the car they are in with its tail club. A mother and baby are also seen in the Cretaceous.

Anurognathus[edit]

Anurognathus
AnurognathusDB.jpg
Home era
Late Jurassic
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 1.5
Last appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 5.5
Number
Dozens
Humans killed
5
Returned to era?
No. All killed in episode 1.5, still at large in episode 5.5.
Anurognathus was a tiny pterosaur that had a short head with pin-like teeth for catching insects, and although it traditionally is ascribed to the long tailed pterosaur group, its tail was comparatively short, allowing it more manoeuvrability for hunting in woodland.[2] Anurognathus lived in the Late Jurassic period, 130 million years ago and had a wingspan of 50 cm (20 in) and a 50 cm (20 in) long body (skull included), it could not have weighed more than a few grams. Despite this they prove to be creatures of devastating violence.[3]
Anurognathus live like a flying piranha fish, with an amazingly keen sense of smell able to detect blood from hundreds of feet away. A swarm can strip flesh from bones in minutes. They also swarm in huge flocks and overcome prey through weight in numbers.[3]
This fictional species of Anurognathus evolved from the Jurassic species Anurognathus ammoni which lived about 150 million years ago and had small needle like teeth for hunting insects. This evolved form has slicing teeth for taking lumps of flesh off large dinosaurs. This behaviour may be slightly based on the theory that a similar anurognathid pterosaur, Jeholopterus, was a hematophagous creature, like the modern vampire bat.[4] The creatures seen in the series were re-imagined from the creatures in Walking with Dinosaurs by the producers for dramatic effect.[1]
In episode 5.5 a flock appears at the New Dawn power station. They attack Matt and Emily and later kill two Prospero guards. They later attack and kill April. What happened to them is unknown.

Arthropleura[edit]

Arthropleura

Home era
Carboniferous
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 1.2
Last appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 2.7
Number
2
Humans killed
1
Returned to era?
All killed in present.
Arthropleura was a 2–3 m (7–10 ft) long (about 6 m (20 ft) long in the series) relative of centipedes and millipedes, native to the Upper Carboniferous of Britain and the United States. It was the largest known land invertebrate of all time and grew so large because of the high percentage of oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere at that time. A burrower, they have poor eyesight but have excellent sense of smell and touch. One appears in the second episode. Although not a carnivore, they have powerful pincers and venomous bite and can easily be provoked into attacking.[5] For dramatic effect, the Arthropleura in episode 1.2 was heavily re-imagined as it was venomous, larger than the real animal and highly aggressive.[1]
Symptoms of the Arthropleura poisoning include uncontrolled shaking, anaphylaxis and short term memory loss in recovered patients.
Once bitten the venom then begins to slowly attack the central nervous system, not so far removed from modern biochemistry as to be totally ineffective, and any enzyme inhibitor would be detrimental to an extent. However, as the Arthropleura are detritus eaters they make no attempt to eat their victims. Fortunately the hospital staff discovered that the venom has a modern day equivalent, thus producing an anti-venom.[5]
An Arthropleura also reappeared in the series finale of Series 2 as one of the many creatures captured by Leek. When the security system holding it failed, it ran amok, although how it had survived thus far without the carboniferous atmosphere that it needed to live, remains a mystery.
Arthropleura also featured in the advertising campaign for the series, appearing in The London Paper on 16 February 2007. The Arthropleura portrayed here is different from the creatures seen in the fossil record, in addition to the Arthropleura in Walking with Monsters as well as in Prehistoric Park, re-imagined by the producers to make it scarier.[1]

Australopithecus[edit]

Australopithecus
Australopithecus afarensis.JPG
Species
Australopithecus afarensis
Home era
Pliocene
Appears in
Episode 3.10
Returned to era?
Never left their own time
Australopithecus are believed to be the ancestors of modern-day humans.
Helen Cutter believed the only way to stop the destruction of life on earth was to stop humans from evolving, so she attempted to wipe out our ancestors. She began by poisoning the members of the "First Family" in episode 3.10, but is killed herself before she can complete her plan. Danny Quinn later found several more living in the Rift Valley as he attempted to find his way back to the anomaly.

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Badger-like mammal[edit]

Badger-like mammal

Appears in
The Lost Island
Number
1
In The Lost Island, the team are marooned in the Cretaceous, when they run into a mammal described as being similar to a badger. It briefly snarls at the team, and then runs off. It turns out to have been later feasting on a dead Iguanodon calf.

Brontoscorpio[edit]

Brontoscorpio

Home era
Silurian
First appearance
 (Primeval: New World)
The Sound of Thunder: Part 1
Last appearance
 (Primeval: New World)
The Sound of Thunder: Part 2
Humans killed
more than 1
Returned to era?
No
Brontoscorpio's body is approximately eight feet long, and it can scale on walls and other surfaces like a spider. The body is covered in a hard exoskeleton, the only soft spot it has being its mouth. The exoskeleton makes tasers ineffective against Brontoscorpio, and even when shot directly into its mouth, tasers sometimes have little effect on Brontoscorpio (but, other times, can knock it out for a few moments). Brontoscorpio is known to attack victims with its stinger to incapacitate them with its venom, and to suck out and consume its victims' internal organs after its venom kills them. Brontoscorpio also lives in burrows. Brontoscorpio has also been shown to approach prey tensed and cautiously and to momentarily back away slightly when the victim shows signs of attacking, similar to some modern day scorpions.

Burrowing insect[edit]

Burrowing insect

Home era
Future
Appears in
Episode 5.1
Humans killed
2+
Returned to era?
No, all killed in explosion
This creature is from the future, and has been encountered by Matt Anderson before, allowing him knowledge of their behaviour. Adults are 2–3 m (7–10 ft) in length. They have armoured shells, however their underbelly is softer. Their anomaly must have opened some years before and they had dug tunnels stretching all across London.
In episode 5.1, one attacked a roadworker who fell into one of its tunnels, and returned when Matt, Becker and Abby arrived, attempting to attack them as they fired their EMDs, which did not affect it. It then attacked a man at a barbecue, which alerted the team who tried to use lethal weapons to bring it down, only for the creature to drag Connor into its tunnel. As the team located its nest, it succumbed to the damage done to it and died, leaving Connor to find dozens more inside the building. Connor filled the building with gas and escaped with Matt as the building was blown up in order to exterminate them.

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Camouflage Beast (Gremlin)[edit]

Camouflage Beast

Home era
Future
Appears in
Episode 3.2
Humans killed
2
Returned to era?
Fell back through the anomaly after being shot by Danny Quinn
In episode 3.2, the Camouflage Beast (it is never given a name on screen) is the major, and only, creature. It has been shown on the ITV website that this creature is based heavily on the Madagascan Aye-Aye which is seen as a symbol of death in its homeland. The creature may speak some kind of language, as it makes a kind of hissing, whispering noise when it is alone.
It was responsible for the disappearance of two boys 14 years before the present, including Patrick Quinn, and leaving Ryan Mason the only survivor. In the present day it was being fed raw meat by a girl in order to keep it from eating neighbouring pets. When the team arrived at the now abandoned house they could not find the creature due to its camouflage ability, and later it attacked Abby when she was alone. Abby later followed it and discovered the girl feeding it. She and Ryan were in the house when it attacked again, however when the others arrived it killed a real estate agent. It attacked Danny Quinn, and it went through its anomaly when it reopened, however it came back, only to be shot several times by Danny as it fell back through, possibly dead.
In episode 4.7 Patrick Quinn, who in fact survived and went through the anomaly, stated that the Camouflage beasts kept coming for him and was forced to kill them to survive. The trauma caused him to also see humans as animals, and became convinced that killing humans is not any different from killing animals.

Coelurosauravus[edit]

Coelurosauravus
Coelurosauravus BW.jpg
Home era
Permian
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 1.1
Number
1
Returned to era?
No, kept as a pet
A male Coelurosauravus, named "Rex", entered the present in the series' premiere, and despite attempts to send it back to the Permian, was adopted by Abby and quickly became a mascot for the team. Coelurosauravus is incorrectly shown to be capable of powered flight rather than simple gliding, and shown to be far larger than its real size of 30 cm (12 in). Its head crest is also entirely speculative.
In episode 1.1, Rex was kept by Ben Trent after he came through the Permian anomaly, and was assumed to be the flying lizard Draco volans until Abby Maitland arrived and said he wasn't. After encountering a Scutosaurus and a group of others, Rex was taken to the Home Office to be examined. He escaped the lab and flew around the building, and Abby kept him from leaving. He was returned through the Permian anomaly by Nick Cutter, but came back to the present and was taken back to Abby's flat in secret. Abby had to adjust the temperature of her flat so that it was similar to his own environment, and Connor Temple discovered him, but agreed to not reveal Rex's presence. Rex escaped from the flat in episode 1.5, and was accidentally transported to a golf course where Connor tried to catch him. Rex ran off as they were attacked by a Pteranodon, and Abby pleaded to Cutter to let her keep him. Rex was later found and returned to the flat.
In episode 2.2, Rex took an instant dislike to Connor's new girlfriend Caroline Steel, attempting to bite her. In episode 2.4 he was left in the freezer by Caroline, and was found by Abby before he completely froze. By the next day he had recovered. In episode 2.5 Caroline attempted to capture Rex by leaving food out for him, and he flew around the flat trying to avoid her but was knocked down by a tennis racket. Caroline took Rex to Oliver Leek, who kept him in his creature prison. In episode 2.7 he was released along with the other creatures, and found a shaft to the surface which was used by the team to escape. Rex was shot by a guard, and Caroline asked to redeem herself by getting Rex out.
Rex was shown to still be living with Abby and Connor in episode 3.1, and in episode 3.6 Abby's brother Jack bet Rex during a game of poker with a friend and lost. He was put on E-Bay for sale which allowed Connor to notice what Jack had done. They attempted to get Rex back, and finally did so when Connor had Captain Becker threaten the seller. Abby brought Rex over to James Lester's flat where Connor was staying in episode 3.9, and Rex played with Connor's two Diictodon, Sid and Nancy.
During Abby and Connor's disappearance, Rex was relocated to the new ARC inside the menagerie, living alongside other creatures that hadn't been returned to their own eras. Abby reunited with Rex in episode 4.2 after she had returned and been placed in charge of the creatures. In episode 4.3 Rex escaped the menagerie and caused the ARC to go into lockdown when he was scanned by Phillip Burton's bio-scanner. The room was drained of oxygen, and Connor managed to cancel the lockdown in time to be able to resuscitate Rex. In episode 5.4 he was in Abby's lab when the ARC was invaded by Future Beetles and flew around the ARC. Abby searched for him to rescue him before a gamma ray was released, and later returned to the menagerie.

Columbian Mammoth[edit]

Columbian Mammoth
Mammuthus columbi Sergiodlarosa.jpg
Species
Mammuthus columbi
Home era
Pleistocene
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 2.6
Last appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 5.5
Number
2
Humans killed
at least one
Returned to era?
No, kept by the ARC
The Columbian Mammoth was one of the largest of the Mammoth species and also one of the largest elephants to have ever lived, measuring 4 m (13 ft), at the shoulder and weighing 10 t (9.8 long tons) with tusks 5 m (16 ft) long. It was a herbivore, with a diet consisting of varied plant life ranging from grasses to conifers. It has been estimated that a large male would have eaten approximately 300 kg (660 lb), of plant material daily. The remains of Columbian Mammoths were discovered in the La Brea Tar Pits in California and this mammoth also lived in Mexico, where its remains are very common. It was one of the last members of the Megafauna to become extinct, with several specimens dating only about 7,800 years ago.
The Mammoth appears in series two holding up traffic on the M25 motorway. As it desperately tries to make its way to the nearby trees, it completely destroys all the nearby cars. Using female elephant urine, the team manage to lead it into a lorry trailer and trap it, taking it back to the ARC where it was kept in a large garage. After being chased through the ARC by a Future Predator, Lester releases the Mammoth which impales the predator on its tusks. Lester then jokes that his children have been wanting him to get a pet.
The Mammoth was seen in the new ARC's menagerie in episode 4.2 and episode 4.4. When Philip Burton decided to have the creatures put down, Abby decided to relocate the creatures, including the mammoth, but was unable to do so. However Lester managed to blackmail Philip into forgetting the whole thing, and Lester told Abby that he thought it would have rude not to have saved the mammoth's life after it had saved him.
In episode 5.5, the anomaly on the M25 reopened and another Mammoth (and possibly more) came through it.

Crested Bird[edit]

Prehistoric bird

Home era
Late Cretaceous
Appears in
Extinction Event
Number
One captured in the present
In Extinction Event, in an area where live specimens of Cretaceous life forms have been collected, Cutter stops to look at a tiny crested bird in a wire cage that was captured by the Russian team. One of the men describes how rare this actually is, as tiny-boned creatures rarely remain intact in fossilisation.

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Devonian Slime Shooter[edit]

Devonian Slime Shooter

Home era
Devonian
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 2.5
Number
One
The Devonian Slime Shooter was an object, either a plant, animal or other such organism that is found in the Devonian and shoots a foul smelling slime. It covers Helen Cutter in its slime while she is in the Devonian.

Deinosuchus[edit]

Deinosuchus

Home era
Late Cretaceous
Appears in
Fire and Water
Number
Two, one male and one female.
In Fire and Water, Deinosuchus are described as "Giant Crocodiles" and that females were more dominant than males. Connor and Abby lure the Deinosuchus using Aerosols while Captain Becker and his men dart it with tranquillisers. They never do get them back to the past and remain in Leek's old bunker where he kept all his army of creatures.

Didelphodon[edit]

Didelphodon

Home era
Late Cretaceous
Appears in
Extinction Event
Number
One captured in the present
In Extinction Event, a single Didelphodon is captured by the Russian anomaly team, and taken to a building in their camp where live specimens are taken. It is described as a hairy badger-like marsupial and is also an insectivore, as it is described crunching on live locusts.

Diictodon[edit]

Diictodon
Diictodon 01.jpg
Species
Diictodon
Home era
Permian
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 3.3
Number
Over 15
Returned to era?
Yes (except two Nancy and Sid)
Diictodon are small burrowing mammal-like reptiles.
A group of over fifteen individuals appear to be traversing air vents in a hospital, chewing through the electricity that the team will need to remove them. Abby catches one which sends of a distress signal calling them all back through the anomaly but one drops from the roof (Sid) and lands inside a trolley Connor is pushing. A single Diictodon tried to escape through an anomaly, which disappears. It later becomes apparent that Abby and Conner adopt two to keep Rex company. In episode 3.5 they are called Sid and Nancy and are living with Connor while Abby's brother is staying.[6] When Connor was staying with Lester, the two caused him much grief.

Dimetrodon[edit]

Dimetrodon
Dimetrodon grandis.jpg
Home era
Permian
Appears in
Extinction Event
Number
Dozens in the Permian era
In Extinction Event, Dimetrodon are encountered by Helen, Jenny and the group of men assigned to help them. They are described as being as big as alligators, basking in groups like iguanas or sea lions and also have a crippling amount of bacteria in their mouth, similar to a Komodo dragon. The group of Dimetrodon are disturbed by the team and one man is badly bitten. He never recovers from the ensuing infection, but is later killed in the Cretaceous by a pack of Troodon.

Dodo[edit]

Dodo
Dodo 1.JPG
Species
Raphus cucullatus
Home era
Holocene
Appears in
Episode 1.4
Number
4
Humans killed
1 killed by parasites
Returned to era?
2 killed by parasites, the other 2 returned
Dodos are flightless birds from the late Holocene. The Dodo was found only on the islands of Mauritius. Related to pigeons and doves, they stand about 1 m (3 ft) tall, weighing about 23 kg (51 lb).[7] Dodos have greyish plumage, a 23 cm (9.1 in) bill with a hooked point, very small wings, stout yellow legs, and a tuft of curly feathers on its rear end. The sternum is insufficient to support flight; these ground-bound birds evolved to take advantage of an island ecosystem with no predators. They live on fallen fruit and in the Primeval Universe they exist in a symbiotic relationship with the Ambalacoque tree.
The name came from the Portuguese word doudo or doido, itself a loanword from Old English (cf. English "dolt").[8] The name was given because the Dodo apparently never tried to run or escape when hunted – hence, they were traditionally regarded as stupid. The species was hunted to extinction by the late 17th century, shortly after the first arrival of people on the Dodo's native Mauritius.[9]
They were the main focus in episode 1.4. Nick Cutter quickly realises they are just friendly and trusting, never having to deal with predators before. In reality they were as intelligent as any other bird.[10] The Dodos are themselves harmless, but some carry deadly parasites.[11]

Dracorex[edit]

Dracorex
Dracorex BW.jpg
Home era
Late Cretaceous
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 3.7
Last appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 4.1
Returned to era?
No. Is currently being kept in the ARC.
Dracorex is a Cretaceous dinosaur. A promotional picture for that episode shows that it has sharp teeth, which is unlikely for a probably herbivorous creature, and two, small, wing-like sails on its back in the manner of Amargasaurus. The picture shows a very long but not forked tongue. The dinosaur also has grasping talons on its hind legs, shown in the image lashing out at the knight. The Dracorex in the series also strongly resembles the Mountain Dragon from the Animal Planet documentary The Last Dragon.
A female appears in episode 3.7, having lived in Medieval times before being chased through an anomaly to the present by a knight who assumed it to be a dragon. The Dracorex had been injured after having a lance driven into its side, and Abby and Becker cornered it in a strawberry patch where it collapsed of its own accord. Abby removed the stake with Becker and cared for it with Connor as she helped to patch it up. It was later moved to the ARC. It escaped from the new ARC's menagerie in episode 4.1 due to an error caused by Jess. It knocked Matt down in a corridor before it arrived in the hub where Jess was. Becker and soldiers arrived to contain it, but it was lead into Lester's office by Matt, who left it some water. Some time later Becker tranquilised it and it was moved back to the menagerie.

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Edaphosaurus[edit]

Edaphosaurus

Home era
Early Permian
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 1.1
Humans killed
0
Edaphosaurus was a Synapsid reptile that lived in the Permian Period, about 280 million years ago and has a sail like Dimetrodon and Spinosaurus. It was included in Connor's Database. The Edaphosaurus resembled much of what people would believe today to be a "dinosaur", however it lived during the Permian period (about 280 million years ago) which is before most dinosaurs. It was very similar to the Dimetrodon in its appearance, except there were generally smaller. They were about a foot shorter than their cousin the Dimetrodon; about 8 feet long. Like most lizards in order to walk, its body moved from side to side. This is a characteristic of animals with legs on its side rather than under it. The Edaphosaurus also had a sail on its back, but it was smaller and shaped differently from that of the Dimetrodon. Edaphosaurus were most active during the day. They were cold blooded animals which meant that their temperature was regulated by external factors (the sun, wind, rain). To get warm during the day these animals would tilt their "sails" towards the sun, and the blood going through this sail would heat up. Edaphosaurus were herbivores, meaning they only ate plants. This is evident in the teeth of the animal. Edaphosaurus teeth were much flatter than that of the Dimetrodon, and its skull was much shorter overall which indicates they had smaller jaw muscles. The Dimetrodon's skull was larger because of its big jaw muscles, and its sharp teeth that were used for shearing meat.
Embolotherium[edit]

Embolotherium

Home era
Late Eocene
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 3.9
Humans killed
1
Returned to era?
Yes
The Embolotherium are prehistoric rhinoceros relatives, but larger and have more brittle horns which are used for display during mating seasons. These beasts able to scare off big predators like Andrewsarchus. The males have a heart shaped horn on top of their noses which is about 70 cm (28 in) and the females have a some sort of stump.
A herd of Embolotherium appeared from an anomaly and caused damage in a campsite. There is one male and several females, accompanied by a baby. The male killed a quad-bike rider after he disturbed the infant. The females were gathered around a tent, trapping another man, and Connor distracted the male by having it chase him in a go-cart. The baby was also trapped inside the tent, so Abby and Sarah saved it after making their way through the herd. Later the team attempted to force them through the anomaly, only for it to close as Connor lead the bull to the females and caused them all to stampede. They charged towards the campsite, however Eve managed to open an anomaly to send them all back through.

Entelodont[edit]

Entelodon

Home era
Oligocene
Appears in
Extinction Event
Number
2
In Extinction Event, a pair of Entelodon come through an anomaly from the Cenozoic onto Oxford Street, killing three people and damaging cars and buses, as well as chasing Connor, Abby and Jenny at different stages in the chapter. One is brought down by Cutter's tranquilliser darts and the other is killed by Hemple, the team's artillery expert for the book.

Eotyrannus[edit]

Eotyrannus
Eotyrannus remains 01.png
Home era
Early Cretaceous
Appears in
The Lost Island
Number
A large pack
Humans killed
Several
Returned to era?
All died
In The Lost Island, the team face a near-constant threat on the island, due to the attacks of a large pack of Eotyrannus, a tyrannosauroid dinosaur about 4 metres long. The creatures kill several people, then die in a storm.

Euparkeria[edit]

Euparkeria
Euparkeria BW.jpg
Home era
Early Triassic
Appears in
Extinction Event
Number
At least four
In Extinction Event, a small anomaly opens in a service station along a dual carriageway, and lets through several Euparkeria, which are described as small quadrupedal animals that run on their hind legs when frightened. Because the anomaly site is closed off for the chapter involving the Archosaurs, no members of the public are attacked, but Abby is bitten through a gauntlet by one. The Euparkeria are all rounded up and released through the anomaly before it closes.

Eustreptospondylus[edit]

Eustreptospondylus

Home era
Late Jurassic
Appears in
Fire and Water
Humans killed
3+
Eustreptospondylus was the largest carnivorous dinosaur in Europe during the Jurassic Period, 150-145 mya. The ARC team encountered a Eustreptospondylus that had come through an anomaly into a South African safari park. It was brought into the South African safari park where it kills rangers and animals. It is first seen disembowelling a rancher. It later attacks Danny Quinn, James Lester and Sophie, who were investigating the disappearances, when a pride of lions distract it, injuring it. The creature escapes, being followed by the lions. Two lions are killed, while two survive. It is then identified by Connor Temple, who was dealing with velociraptors and giant crocodilians. It then is observed attacking hippos, and bites one; the hippo does not take much damage. The Eustreptospondylus attacks the team once more, but a Postosuchus interferes and battles the dinosaur, killing it. The remains of the theropod are found later.
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Future Beetle[edit]

Future Beetle

Home era
Future
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 5.4
Humans killed
1
Returned to era?
No. All killed.
A species of carnivorous beetle from the future resembling the scarab beetle, that move around in enormous swarms led by a huge Queen. Their mandibles are so strong they can chew through concrete.
They appear via an anomaly opened by Connor, kill a guard and cause chaos throughout the ARC going through the vents and piping. Becker shot some of the swarm with an EMD, including the Queen, and others were killed with pesticide. Their venom is not extremely poisonous, but one beetle bit Jess, who went into anaphylaxis. Matt and Connor rigged the anomaly creator to explode in a gamma ray burst to kill the remaining beetles.

Future Bird[edit]

Future Bird

Home era
Future
Appears in
Shadow of the Jaguar
Humans killed
1 (kills more with its control)
Returned to era?
No. Escapes into Plio-Pleistocene.
In Shadow of the Jaguar, a creature from the future, theorised to be a future evolution of predatory birds by Cutter, is found controlling a pack of Thylacosmilus with pheromones. It has a certain resemblance to the Incan god, Pacha Kamaq. The team track it down to its lair in the ruins of an Incan temple in the Peruvian jungle. After they disrupt its control over the Thylacosmilus, the creature retreats through the anomaly with them seconds before it closes. Cutter later theorises to Lester the creature may have been seen later in history by the Incas and incorporated into their mythology. The creature had several unusual abilities, such as the ability to control other creatures through the use of pheromones (like a queen bee controls a beehive), and a tongue with a tip covered in many tiny teeth that can burrow into flesh.

Future Fungus[edit]

Fungus Creature

Home era
Future
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 3.5
Humans killed
4 (all infected, one fell through anomaly, two transformed and one was quarantined)
Returned to era?
No. Killed by freezing the ARC hub.
The fungus is parasitic, extremely aggressive and eats through the flesh of anything that touches it. As soon as someone touches it, it instantly begins converting them into a shell that is loosely human shaped, but has lost all human features and intelligence, relying on instinct. In other words, the fungus effectively kills the host once it has transformed. The ARC team thought that heating the creatures would kill them, but it only advanced their reproduction. In the end, freezing them was the solution. The fungus creature's life cycle is as follows:
Spores are inhaled into the host's lungs.
The spores become moist and convert into fungus
Once consumed the fungus shell turns into a fungus creature which spread the fungus by touch.
The fungus creature finally roots itself into the ground and waits to spread spores to new hosts.
The fungus is probably the evolved form of the contemporary Cordyceps fungus of south-east Asia for its lifecycle bears a strong resemblance to the fungus.[citation needed] Cordyceps grows inside a host (usually an ant), replacing the surrounding tissue with its own, avoiding the vital organs. It then alters the host's behaviour to make it go to an area of suitable conditions. Cordyceps then grows throughout the host's body, killing it, before becoming completely rooted in the ground or stem the host found itself on. Cordyceps then sporulates, infecting more hosts, by either inhaling the spores through the windpipe or spores falling through pores in the exoskleteton or skin. The Cordyceps fungus probably evolved into the future fungus to attack bigger prey, such as the Megopteran.
The fungus was found by Sir Richard Bentley's assistant after he went through an anomaly in a flat, and accidentally transferred it to the present where Bentley was infected by it. As he slowly took over him, a sample of Connor's at the ARC affected another man, and more quickly turned him into a Fungus Creature. Connor and Sarah's belief that overheating it would kill it was thought to have worked only to learn it actually spread the spores even more, leading the flamethrower-wielding team to capture it instead. After freezing the fungus instead, they found it worked and prepared the ARC to freeze their captured creature, only for it to escape and attack Jenny before it succumbed to the cold.

Future Predator[edit]

Future Predator

Home era
Future
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 1.6
Last appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 5.6
Vicious creatures referred to as "Future Predators" are Primeval's most recurring creatures, besides Rex. They are descendants of bats, and like bats use echolocation to hunt and locate prey, with the ears having moved to the front of the face. They are extremely agile, however it comes at a cost as they are easily stunned by powerful blows. The Future Predators are known to have caused the most deaths out of any creature in the series, both on-screen deaths, and total (if what Helen Cutter said about them wiping out humanity in the future was true). TV critic Walt Belcher of the Tampa Tribune described the Future Predator as "an apelike and skull-headed thing that sort of represents the ultimate dumbing down of the human race"[12]
Their first appearance is in episode 1.6. A mating pair lived in the Permian era after going through an anomaly, and Helen realised they were from the future. When an anomaly lead to the present they went through, and proceeded to kill a lion and four innocent people, including Abby Maitland's boss. Helen, believing there was only one, warned the team about it, and they failed in their attempt to kill it initially. Connor Temple came up with an idea to track its echolocation, but was attacked in a car before he was saved by Abby and Stephen Hart. Nick Cutter lead the team to its lair, where they discovered it had given birth to five infants before they were attacked by the male. Nick managed to kill it, and he and Helen planned to use the infants to locate the future anomaly in the Permian to try prevent more from going though into that era. However the female Predator followed and attacked them, killing Tom Ryan and his men before a Gorgonopsid arrived and knocked it down. Three of the infants were killed before the mother fought back, and though it managed to inflict heavy wounds on the Gorgonopsid it was crushed and killed. Nick and Helen unknowingly left the remaining two infants in the Permian.
In episode 2.6, Oliver Leek had control of a Predator using a "neural clamp", which he had taken to the ARC and kill some of the staff discreetly before going after James Lester. Lester made several attempts to fight back, turning on Connor's iPod speakers on loud and using a machinegun from the armoury before being cornered in the main room. Leek had the Predator leap to deliver the final blow, only for it to become impaled on the tusk of a Columbian Mammoth that Lester had just let loose. In episode 2.7 it is revealed Leek has successfully captured a pack of Predators, and using neural clamps to maintain control over them, referring to them as his "Praetorian Guard". Nick was pursued by one through the facility until he managed to draw it in close with his blood before ripping the neural clamp from its head, killing it. Leek threatened to use the rest of his controlled Predators to tear Nick apart, however Nick freed them of their mind control devices by forcing the one he had into a fuse box, disabling the rest. They then turned on Leek and killed him before they were locked in a feeding chamber along with all of the other creatures that Leek, Helen and their soldiers had locked kept. They were among the creatures that killed Stephen as he sacrificed himself to keep the creatures locked up to have them kill one another.
In episode 3.1 Future Predators appear in their own environment in an old city. They were the inadvertent guards for a mysterious artefact. Soldiers sent by Christine Johnson to recover the artefact killed a young Predator before an adult kills all but one of the soldiers. In episode 3.4, Christine was shown to have been operating on one in an attempt to learn how to recreate its echolocation. It woke up, and Christine had it killed. In episode 3.8, a pack of Future Predators stalked the team when they arrived in the future. Captain Becker killed one while accidentally alerting several others to their presence due to the noise from his gun. An infant leaped out of a car to attack Danny Quinn, scarring his neck before he stomped on it. More approached as the team were rescuing Jack Maitland, and Becker lead them away. The team were trapped in an abandoned bus by the Predators before several Megopterans arrived and the two species fought amongst themselves, and the still alive Becker killed another as it came towards the team. In episode 3.9, a Predator kills Christine after she was pushed through an anomaly leading to the future by Helen. In episode 3.10 one stalked Danny, Connor and Abby as they searched for Helen, but was locked away from them. It soon broke into the room along with several others, narrowly missing their quarry as they escaped into the Cretaceous through an anomaly which was closed to prevent them following.
In episode 5.6, the Future Predators are shown differently, having evolved to survive in the harsh landscape caused by Philip Burton. They are much quicker than before, have more sun-damaged skin, and with food so scarce they attack each other to claim prey for themselves. One prepared to attack Connor before a storm came up, and it fought with another before the victor was brought down by Abby. A group attacked as Connor, Abby and Matt Anderson made their way back to the anomaly, though they fought amongst themselves. A pair went through an anomaly created by Connor into the ARC, and attacked Lester and Jess Parker. They severely injured Lester, and when the team arrived Abby came up with a plan to paralyse them by using ultra-sonic noise. The first had Abby pinned before Becker killed it with his EMD, and the other froze as Abby initiated her plan, and Becker was able to use his EMD to kill it with only a few close range blows.
The "Future Predators" also appear on the Watch YouTube Game. They attack your computer screen and it takes three hits to kill them.
Future Shark[edit]

Future Shark

Home era
Future
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 2.4
Number
1
Returned to era?
No. Killed by the team.
The Future Shark is the future evolution of a modern-day shark. It looks similar to some deep-sea sharks, but has a special adaptation: a very long tongue armed with spikes that can be fired from the jaw like a harpoon. Modern day sharks such as the tiger shark have been found with litter in their stomachs, including plastic bags, tins and car registration plates: the basketball and the shoe found in the Future Shark's stomach could be a reference to this.
In episode 2.4 this creature prepared to attack Jenny Lewis in the water before it was shot by Stephen Hart and then captured by the team who suspected it of killing a boy. After examining the creature in their ARC, Nick Cutter concluded it was probably the descendant of the shark. Since no remains of the boy were found in the creature's stomach, and sharks typically take days to digest their prey, it did not kill the missing boy.

Future Worm[edit]

Future Worm

Home era
Future
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 3.8
Number
1
A future worm attacks Jack Maitland in the underground in the future. They are similar to the worms from episode 2.2 in that they shoot a foul liquid at their prey, but they more resemble maggots in appearance. It is not clear if the worms are larvae of the Mega-Optera or if they are a completely different species. They probably are not the larvae of the Mega-Optera as its young were seen in the present not long after they came out of a dead human body and are miniature versions of the adult animal.

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Giant Spider[edit]

Giant Spider

Home era
Carboniferous
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 1.2
Humans killed
1
Returned to era?
Yes
The Giant Spiders are, despite appearances, not true spiders (order Araneae), but a species of Solifugae, a distinct arachnid order. The name derives from Latin, and means those that flee from the sun. The adults are up to 1 m (39 in) wide, by 1 m long, because the lush rainforest of the Carboniferous saturates the atmosphere with oxygen, allowing them to grow larger than modern arthropods. They have pincers instead of fangs – like the modern day camel spider, only much bigger. They also have long pedipalps, which function as sense organs similar to insects' antennae and give the appearance of the two extra legs. Pedipalps terminate in reversible adhesive organs. They do not appear to make webs or produce venom but they nest in large groups and are very defensive of their offspring.[5]
A nest of them appears in the second episode. Ryan and the other special forces enter the tunnel, and they are attacked by a whole group of them, killing one of the soldiers. They find out that the spiders did not kill the pest controller, because the bite looked different. Eventually it is discovered that they avoid light, and by using torches, all the Giant Spiders were driven back through the anomaly by the end of episode 1.2.[5]
These creatures are based on fragmentary fossils which scientists thought was a 1 m wide spider but this has just recently been reclassified as a type of scorpion.[4] The Giant Spiders also featured in the advertising campaign for the show. First on giant billboards on 1 February 2007 and again in The London Paper on 16 February 2007.

Giganotosaurus[edit]

Giganotosaurus
Giganotos Db.jpg
Home era
Early Cretaceous
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 3.4
Humans killed
4
Returned to era?
Yes
Giganotosaurus is one of the largest species of carnivorous dinosaurs. It is shown to be able to run at high speed for a surprisingly long distance, considering its huge size and weight. It is dubbed a "G-Rex" by the characters throughout the episode because it is pictured just like a T-Rex just slightly bigger.
In episode 3.4, one appears at an airport and starts attacking a news crew investigating the anomaly. It ate Nigel Marven, then went back through before it returned and ran out onto the runway, attacking an aeroplane. Connor Temple lured it away with a luggage carrier before it tripped over the small vehicle and pinned Connor down on the runway. Then a helicopter piloted by Danny Quinn lured it back through the anomaly. Danny came back in time to reveal that there was a large pack on the other side of the anomaly, and Connor only just manages to lock the anomaly in time.

Gorgonopsid[edit]

Gorgonopsid
Gorgonops BW.jpg
Species
Gorgonops, Lycaenops
Home era
Late Permian
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 1.1
Last appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 1.6
First appearance
 (Primeval: New World)
"Undone"
Number
4; 2 Gorgonops, 2 Lycaenops
Humans killed
1 in Primeval, 2 in Primeval: New World
Returned to era?
Episode 1.1 – killed
 Episode 1.6 – already in its own time
 "Undone" – both killed in present.
Gorgonopsia are a group of creatures that were at one time called "mammal-like reptiles", though in most current classification systems, they are not classed as reptiles as they are more closely related to mammals. Their mammalian specialisations include differentiated tooth shape, the fully developed temporal fenestra, pillar-like rear legs as well as other traits associated with its mammalian descendants. Arguments have even been made for synapsids of its time being endothermic.
What’s really special about Gorgonopsids is their patience and implacability. Once they have smelt blood they have a tendency to pursue their prey at all costs. In fact it was this keen sense of smell that originally tempted it into the cold present, lured by the smell of humans and waste from a supermarket.[4] They then store their kills in trees like leopards.
They also appear to be resilient and long lived as one male Gorgonopsid was still defending the territory around the anomaly for at least eight years, even after suffering horrible injuries after a fight with a Future Predator which it killed by rearing up on its hind legs and crushing it under its weight.[13] Due to the thick armour on their back, the only way to combat them with regular fire arms is to aim for their underside.[14]
This new species is a typical representative of the Gorgonopsia, It is distinguished from other species by a longer snout, and other details of the bones of the skull. It also has naked skin with short bristly hair rather than scales. This creature is based on Gorgonops longifrons found in the Karoo Basin in South Africa which was between 3 and 4 m (10 and 13 ft) long and had 8 cm (3 in) sabreteeth.[4]
Gorgonopsid also returned in the episode "Undone" of Primeval: New World. The species that appears is Lycaenops. The Cross Photonics predator control team captures a female who is stalking students at a college library. Mac is sprayed by the female, and while the team chase after the male that followed the female on campus, the female kills Mac's girlfriend, Sam. Mac then hunts the female out of vengeance, eventually killing the female, and later her mate.[2]

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Hesperornis[edit]

Hesperornis
Hesperornis BW.jpg
Species
Hesperornis
Home era
Late Cretaceous
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 1.3
Number
1
Humans killed
1
Returned to era?
Yes
Hesperornis is an extinct genus of flightless aquatic birds that lived during the Late Cretaceous. Hesperornis were fairly large birds, reaching up to 1.5 m (4.9 ft) in length. They had virtually no wings, swimming with powerful hind legs. Their toes were probably lobed rather than being webbed, as in today's grebes; like in these, the toes could rotate well, which is necessary to decrease drag in lobed feet but not in webbed ones such as in loons, where the toes are simply folded together. Like many other Mesozoic birds such as Ichthyornis, Hesperornis had teeth in its beak which were used to hold prey (most likely fish). In the hesperornithiform lineage they were of a different arrangement than in any other known bird (or in non-avian theropod dinosaurs), with the teeth sitting in a longitudinal groove rather than in individual sockets.[15]
They hunted in the waters of the North American Inland Sea which then were tropical waters, much warmer than today. They probably fed mainly on fish, their teeth were helpful in dealing with slippery or hard-shelled prey. Later as Nick Cutter swims through the anomaly he finds himself in a tropical sea with a flock of Hesperornis swimming around him. He later finds a Hesperornis rookery amongst the rocky shoreline. Two Hesperornis investigate, but Helen Cutter shoos them off by throwing small stones, and says that they "tend to be more dumb than violent, only attacking when they're in a panic or disturbed."[16]
Hesperornis is shown as being covered in scales when in real life, Hesperornis was likely covered in feathers. Also they were not able to stand upright or walk as the legs attached far at the back and sideways, with even the lower leg being tightly attached to the body. Thus, they were limited to sliding on their belly or galumphing.[17]

Hyaenodon[edit]

Hyaenodon
Hyaenodon Heinrich Harder.jpeg
Species
Hyaenodon
Home era
Early Miocene
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 4.6
Number
6 (3 cubs, 3 adults)
Humans killed
1
Returned to era?
5 returned, one adult fell to its death
Hyaenodon is an extinct genus of Hyaenodonts, a group of carnivorous creodonts of the family Hyaenodontidae. Some species of this genus were amongst the largest terrestrial carnivorous mammals of their time, others were only of the size of a marten. They had very massive skulls but only small brains. It had a long skull with a narrow snout – much larger in relation to the length of the skull than in canine carnivores, for instance. Its neck was shorter than its skull, while its body was long and robust and terminated in a long tail. Despite the name, these creatures are not related to hyenas.
A total of two adults and three cub Hyaenodons came through an anomaly in the wine cellar of a stately mansion, where Jenny Lewis is getting married, in episode 4.6, making a den. An adult killed a wedding planner in the cellar where the pups were. Connor stunned one male Hyaenodon and it was sent back through the anomaly. He was trapped in the cellar because of the female, and gave some wine to two cubs to knock them out and returned them to the anomaly before trying to get the third through as well, only to allow the male back through. The two adults attacked the wedding party and were fought off with medieval weapons. All the Hyaenodons were returned.

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Iguanodon[edit]

Iguanodon

Home era
Cretaceous
Appears in
The Lost Island
Number
Well over 100 in the Cretaceous, one in modern world
The Iguanodon is first encountered in The Lost Island as a juvenile, which has fallen down a hill and broken its leg. Cutter shoots it to put it out of its misery. Later, when marooned in the past, the team witness hundreds of Iguanodon moving on a plain below, being attacked by Neovenator and associating with Polacanthus. Matt Anderson mentions handling a herd of them that had found their way into a beauty pageant during his first mission as team leader at the end of Series 4 webisode 5.

J[edit]
Jurassic Beetle[edit]

Jurassic Beetle

Home era
Jurassicperiod
First appearance
 (Primeval: New World)
Fear of Flying
Humans killed
2
Returned to era?
Yes
Jurassic Beetles are a species of arthropod from the Jurassic. They are carnivorous, eusocial creatures that use live animals as incubators for their eggs. Jurassic Beetles are black or grey beetles, and are carnivorous. Workers and drones are approximately the same size as modern day beetles, while queens are around eight feet in length, with extremely hard and armoured carapaces and large wings which allow them flight. The beetles have very small, almost invisible eyes, due to which they have poor eyesight and avoid fire and bright light, and for that fact they have long antennae to compensate.
It is known that drone and worker Jurassic Beetles generally attack prey in massive swarms to overwhelm and devour it in seconds. It is also known that a queen beetle breeds by capturing a live victim and depositing at least one sac of gelatinous eggs from its mouth down into the captured host's throat.
The Jurassic Beetle drones are similar to the future beetles, and the queen Jurassic beetle is similar to the Megopteran and the more over the queen future beetle.
K[edit]
Kaprosuchus[edit]

Kaprosuchus
Kaprosuchus NT.jpg
Home era
Early Cretaceous
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 4.2
Last appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 5.5
Number
1
Humans killed
3 (one ARC soldier due to a backfiring EMD shot.)
Returned to era?
Episode 4.2 – No, killed by team
 Episode 5.5 – Unknown
Kaprosuchus is known by only a single skull, discovered by the palaeontologist Paul Sereno in 2009. The prehistoric crocodile had oversized tusks embedded toward the front of its upper and lower jaws, inspiring Sereno's affectionate nickname, the BoarCroc. Like many crocodiles of the Cretaceous period, Kaprosuchus was not restricted to river ecosystems; judged by its long legs and impressive dentition, this four-legged reptile roamed the plains of Africa much in the style of a big cat. In fact, with its big tusks, powerful jaws and 6.1-metre (20 ft) span, Kaprosuchus may have been capable of taking down comparably sized herbivorous (or even carnivorous) dinosaurs.
A Kaprosuchus appeared in episode 4.2, having grown from a hatchling flushed into the sewer 5 years previously into an adult preying on the homeless living by the Thames. Its presence was discovered by Connor, Abby and Duncan, who alerted the ARC with Matt after he saved them from its initial attack when its home was set on fire by construction workers. Though it was brought down by an EMD and contained, it woke up and escaped, chasing Duncan into a maze of containers, killing a soldier. After forcing it out of a maze of containers, the team inadvertently killed it with EMDs since the firepower was too much for it.
Another appears in Episode 5.5, coming through a new anomaly during the anomaly convergence, and attacking Connor and Philip's car. Philip left Connor on his own, and Connor called Abby for help, who arrived and brought it down with an EMD while driving. Whether or not it survived and was returned, or whether it was killed is unknown.
The Kaprosuchus also appears on the Watch YouTube Game. It would take two hits to kill the Kaprosuchus.

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Labyrinthodont[edit]

Labyrinthodont
Proterogyrinus NT.jpg
Home era
Late Paleozoic to Early Mesozoic
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 4.5
Number
2 (one young and one adult)
Humans killed
3
Returned to era?
Yes
Labyrinthodonts were generally amphibian-like in build. They were short-legged and mostly large headed, with moderately short to long tails. Many groups, and all the early forms, were large animals. Primitive members of all labyrinthodont groups were probably true water predators, and various degrees of amphibious, semi-aquatic and semi terrestrial modes of living arose independently in different groups. Some lineages remained or became secondarily fully aquatic with reduced limbs and elongated, eel-like bodies.
A large (several metres long) Labyrinthodont with a very long tail, and a juvenile, appeared in a seaside cave in episode 4.5.[18] The adult had been causing many people and animal stock to go missing over the ten years since the anomaly had previously been open. It killed someone camping out to investigate the 'Witchfield Worm', and Matt Anderson saved a fisherman from been devoured too. Abby Maitland pursued the creature to a campsite where she lured it on top of a caravan and drove it part way to the anomaly site. Connor Temple discovered the infant in the cave, and its cries of pain caused by acid drew the adult back. It killed two people, one of whom had known about the creature and attempted to contain it, before being driven back through the anomaly by Connor and Abby.

Larvae[edit]
See Future Worm
Liopleurodon[edit]

Liopleurodon
Liopleurodon BW.jpg
Home era
Jurassic
First appearance
 (Primeval)
The Lost Island
Last appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 5.2
Number
2
Returned to era?
Yes (in episode 5.2)
Liopleurodon are a species of Pliosaur, an extinct type of marine reptiles.
In the The Lost Island novel, a Liopleurodon sinks a trawler boat in the Atlantic south of Ireland, at Guns Island, and it later encountered by the team in the water. It seems heavily resistant to bullets, but when the team discover it, it is dying from the cold of the Atlantic winter.
In episode 5.2 a Liopleurodon comes through an anomaly in the North Sea, and attacks a naval submarine with the team aboard, disabling it. The submarine is drawn into the anomaly to the Jurassic and the Liopleurodon follows it back. A pod of them swim around the submarine, banging against it to see if it was food. When a swimming theropod was ejected from the vessel, all of the creatures went after the distraction as one of the Liopleurodons ate it.

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Meganeura[edit]

Meganeura

Home era
Late Carboniferous
Meganeura is a genus of extinct insects from the Carboniferous period approximately 300 million years ago, which resembled and are related to the present-day dragonflies. With wingspans of more than 75 cm (2.5 ft), M. monyi is one of the largest known flying insect species; the Permian Meganeuropsis permiana is another. Meganeura were predatory, and fed on other insects, and even small amphibians.
Megopteran[edit]

Megopteran

Home era
Future
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 3.8
Last appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 3.10
Humans killed
at least 5 (also a factor of the apocalypse)
Returned to era?
yes, but three killed in the present
ITV launched a competition for a viewer to design a creature, which was judged by the creators and will appear in Series 3. The winner was 16-year-old Carim Nahaboo from Essex,[19] whose creature is a large predatory insect from the future which, as Carim described, "evolved from carnivorous beetles, such as the tiger beetle".[20] However, the series described it as evolving from either wasps or ants. The creature can fly and run fast over long distances, and lives in future jungles.[20] It is known as Megopteran.
In episode 3.8 a group of them are gassed out by Danny and become the team's distraction when they are surrounded in a bus by Future Predators – a vicious fight ensures that the team escapes. As they do, a huge Megopteran appears and heads in their direction, but is not seen afterwards. This particularly large Megopteran may have been the dominant queen or leader of the nest. They are shown to have an ovipositor, with which they can lay eggs into a host. Three creatures re-appear in the Series 3 finale and are seen rampaging around in Christine Johnson's base. Two are killed by Becker using electrical wires and the third one is presumably dead.

Mer[edit]

Mer

Home era
Future
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 2.4
Last appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 2.7
Returned to era?
Episode 2.4 – Yes
 Episode 2.7 – Killed in fight
The Mer first appear in episode 2.4. They are aquatic predators from the future, using the sewer network to hunt and trap prey. They successfully capture and drag Abby into their timezone, where the team later ventures to retrieve her. They have thin skulls, and can be rendered unconscious by having heavy objects, such as stones, thrown on their heads. Nick Cutter speculated that the Mer may be descendants of humans.
There appear to be two types of Mer;
The Mer Queen who is red in colour, and much larger than her subordinates. She has tusks on her lower jaw, whereas the others do not. When Abby attempts to escape from the future, the Mer Queen reacts violently, to the point that she crushes any other Mer in her path.
The remaining Mer are blueish in colour, and work at capturing food. They do not immediately kill their prey, instead dragging it back to their home, where presumably it is later consumed.
In episode 2.6 and 2.7, it is revealed Leek has managed to acquire a Mer for his collection. The creature eventually escapes the feeding chamber, and attempts to break down a door to leave the bunker, before returning to the feeding room in an attempt by Cutter, Stephen and Helen to trap the creatures there, so that they kill each other.

Millipede[edit]

Arthropleura

Home era
Carboniferous
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 2.5
Number
1
Returned to era?
Yes
The Silurian period is shown as being home to not only giant scorpions, but also millipedes which roam in groups across the sand. They prefer to hide in the sand but may emerge if frightened by a predator. These millipedes are likely to be the staple food source for the giant scorpions.
In episode 2.5, Nick Cutter and Stephen Hart noticed a large group of them travelling on the sand, which they failed to realise were fleeing from the scorpions. One entered the present era briefly but was captured by Abby in a ball pool before it was returned into the past.

Mesosaurus[edit]

Mesosaurus
Mesosaurus BW.jpg
Home era
Early Permian
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 1.1
Number
1
Returned to era?
Yes
Mesosaurus (meaning "middle lizard") is an extinct genus of reptile from the Early Permian of southern Africa and South America. Mesosaurus was one of the first reptiles to return to the water after early tetrapods came to land in the Late Devonian or later in the Paleozoic. It was around 1 m (3.3 ft) in length, with webbed feet, a streamlined body, and a long tail that may have supported a fin. It probably propelled itself through the water with its long hind legs and flexible tail. Its body was also flexible and could easily move sideways, but it had heavily thickened ribs, which would have prevented it from twisting its body. A picture of Mesosaurus is on the wall of Nick Cutter's lab at the Central Metropolitan University as Stephen walks into the lab.

Mosasaur[edit]

Mosasaur
Mosasaurus 21copy.jpg
Species
Mosasaurus
Home era
Late Cretaceous
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 1.3
Number
2
Humans killed
1
Returned to era?
Yes, but killed in its own era
Mosasaurs were serpentine marine reptiles and ferocious predators. Mosasaurs were not dinosaurs but evolved from semi-aquatic squamates known as the aigialosaurs, close relatives of modern-day monitor lizards.[21][22] Mosasaurs breathed air and were powerful swimmers that were well-adapted to living in the warm, shallow epicontinental seas prevalent during the Late Cretaceous Period. Mosasaurs are intensely territorial and cannibals, and the only meetings between them that do not end in violence occur when the Mosasaurs in question are of opposite sexes, and there is the possibility of mating.[16]
The skull was more robustly built than other Mosasaurs, as the mandibles articulated very tightly with the skull. It had a deep, barrel-shaped body, and with its fairly large eyes, poor binocular vision, and poorly developed olfactory bulbs, experts believe that Mosasaurs lived near the ocean surface, where it preyed on fish, turtles, ammonites as well as smaller Mosasaurs. Because of its robust skull and tightly articulating jaws, mosasaurs was unable to swallow prey-items whole in the manner of earlier mosasaurs, such as Tylosaurus. Instead, with the aid of its curved, knife-like teeth, mosasaurs was able to tear its prey into more manageable pieces that could be more easily swallowed.
The Mosasaur was shown to have an armoured crocodile-like body, but in reality it would have been smooth-skinned and streamlined, and covered in more lizard- or snake-like scales. Also it swallowed the lifeguard whole even though its jaw and enlarged neck muscles were evolved to tear and rip prey apart. The Mosasaur depicted also has a more tapering, snake-like body than its real life counterpart, and a pair of short horns over the head, like a theropod dinosaur.

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Neovenator[edit]

Neovenator
Neovenator NT.jpg
Home era
Early Cretaceous
Appears in
The Lost Island
Number
3; none came through anomaly
In the Primeval spin-off novel The Lost Island, the team witness a pack of three Neovenator attack a herd of Iguanodon, but it is not known if the hunt is successful. Cutter initially mistakes them for Allosaurids but their presence nonetheless gives Cutter reason to move the team from their hunting grounds.

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Ornitholestes[edit]

Ornitholestes

Home era
Late Jurassic
First appearance
 (Primeval: New World)
Babes in the Woods
Last appearance
 (Primeval: New World)
The Inquisition
Number
3
Returned to era?
No
Ornitholestes is a species of theropod dinosaur that lived during the Jurassic, 150 million years ago. Ornitholestes are stalkers; they track their prey by stalking it through the woods, and will usually attack the smaller members of groups of prey. Ornitholestes are also highly aggressive, and can be easily provoked into attacking other creatures. They can also be quickly brought down by shooting them directly in the neck with an electric dart, but shooting them in the side or below the neck has little effect.
At least one Ornitholestes was taken by Project Magnet from the Mount Seymour Anomaly incursion, and sent to a research laboratory in Vancouver, where it was subjected to gruesome experiments from which it apparently at some point died.

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Pachycephalosaurus[edit]

Pachycephalosaurus

Home era
Late Cretaceous
Appears in
Extinction Event
First appearance
 (Primeval: New World)
"Truth"
Number
2
Returned to era?
No
In the past Jenny, Helen Cutter and the men supporting the British team observe a Tyrannosaurus hunting and killing a Pachycephalosaurus, which is described as having a knobbed head and using the domed forehead for display rather than head-butting, according to Helen.
In Primeval New World, a Pachycephalosaurus went on a rampage smashing windows mistaking its own reflection to be a rival. It was taken down by the team, but sneezed on Evan before it became unconscious.

Parasite[edit]

Parasite

Home era
Holocene
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 1.4
Number
2
Humans killed
1, although another was infected and presumably cured
Returned to era?
No. Died due to lack of oxgyen in bell jar.
This previously undiscovered species is a cestoid[23] Parasite, up to 30 cm (12 in) long and weighing up to 70 g (2 oz) from the late Holocene. The Parasites belong to the group Taeniidae[24] which are distinguished from the other families of the order Cestoidea by having a distinct head, furnished with four suctorial discs.[11]
They feed off the nutrients in the bloodstream of its host, destroying the internal organs in the process. It then burrows into the brain of the carrier and manipulates it for the benefit of the Parasite. The Parasite causes the host to become aggressive and photophobic. The bite of the host serves to spread the Parasite's eggs, which are released into the saliva, to a new host.[11] It is hinted that the parasites could be responsible for the Vampire myth.
The mature Parasites eventually kill the host and themselves as part of their reproductive cycle. Each individual has male and female reproductive structures in its proglottid and can reproduce independently. Any warm-blooded creature is an acceptable host, even humans.

Postosuchus[edit]

Postosuchus

Home era
Late Triassic
Appears in
Fire and Water
Number
2
Humans killed
6
Returned to era?
No
Postosuchus was a land living crocodilian that lived in North America and was the top predator in its ecosystem. A Postosuchus seemingly comes through an anomaly to a South African Safari Park and kills a Eustreptospondylus (however, it is later revealed that both creatures were captured and transported the park by Tom Samuels' people). It later kills several zebra and wildebeest. The creature is later lured by an impala and attacks the team before Sophie sacrifices her life to save Danny. The creature is killed when it is shot in its stomach. Several postosuchus are used for patrolling Samuels' oil refinery as "guard dogs" and are controlled with an electric shock collar. A postosuchus later kills park worker Ted as well as Samuels. A family of Postosuchus are later seen attempting to escape their cage. It is unknown if the family survive the oil refinery's destruction although the cage may have protected them. Like the Gorgonopsid, they had tremendous power; therefore they would have caused havoc between herds of creatures in their own time.
Phorusrhacid[edit]

Titanis
Paraphysornis BW-2r.jpg
Species
Maybe Phorusrhacos in Episode 3.6 and Titanis in Episode 4.7
Home era
Plio-Pleistocene
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 3.6
Last appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 4.7
Humans killed
+6
Returned to era?
Episode 3.6 – Yes, (1 killed by a mine, 1 beheaded by car shrapnel)
 Episode 4.7 – Unknown
Phorusrhacids or "Terror Birds" are large carnivorous flightless birds that were the dominant predators in South America shortly during the Cenozoic period, 62-2.5 million years ago. They were roughly 1–3 m (3–10 ft) tall. Titanis walleri, one of the largest species, is known from North America, marking one of the comparatively rare examples where animals that evolved in South America managed to spread north after the Isthmus of Panama land bridge formed. Their wings evolved into meat hook-like structures that likely could be outstretched like arms to perform a hacking motion to help bring down prey. Like the armour-plated ostriches they resemble, Terror Birds are also very fast runners.
They first appear in episode 3.6. They first came through the anomaly in the 1950s, and attacked and killed scientists that were studying the anomaly. When the anomaly reopened in the present day, they came through again, and one was drawn to a cabin the team were hiding it due to a distress call they had accidentally played. It chased the team in their car, and Danny Quinn fought it off with a pipe before they crashed. Abby Maitland and Sarah Page fled while Danny used Connor Temple as bait to draw in the bird, trapping it by hooking its leg into the car's tow cable. Abby and Sarah were chased by several more and chased to a minefield along with Danny and Connor, and Danny lured on onto a mine, killing it. Another attacked and killed one of Captain Ross's soldiers and was killed as the car exploded on a mine and the shrapnel cut through the bird's neck. The rest of the flock attack the cabin, and Connor distracted them so that Danny could play the distress call recording to lure them back to the anomaly.
A single terror bird attacked in a prison in episode 4.7, coming through a "satellite anomaly" and killing a tourist. It returned through the main anomaly and was driven back by the team, however it appeared through another satellite anomaly Abby and Becker found. It was allowed to go through the main anomaly, but it returned again to distract the team as they were attempting to capture Ethan Dobrowski. Connor and Abby chased after it, and Danny arrived to help knock it through a satellite anomaly. Again the terror bird returned, this time being brought down by Matt Anderson's EMD. Abby contained it in a storage closet, but it was set free by Ethan/Patrick to menace Emily merchant, but luckily used a club to bring it down again. It was presumably returned to its own time after that.

Pliosaur[edit]

Pliosaur

Home era
Jurassic Period
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 5.2
Number
dozen
Pliosaurs are a large type of marine reptile from the Jurassic and Cretaceous. They may live in pods of three or so, generally not attacking one another. When confronting other large objects in the water, they will react aggressively by ramming and biting. They have been witnessed to rub their bodies along smaller objects to try and get a reaction to see if the object is alive before eating. If the object is moving, however, they take it for food and will devour it immediately.
The Pliosaurs encountered such as Liopleurodon are bullet-resistant, and due to the warmer conditions of the oceans in the Jurassic, if a Pliosaur such as Liopleurodon stays in the colder seas of the present day for too long, it will die from the conditions. They are known to eat Swimming Theropods. Liopleurodon is a type of Pliosaur. A Liopleurodon came through an Anomaly into the present day Atlantic Ocean, where it presumably died from the Ocean's cold conditions.

Polacanthus[edit]

Polacanthus

Home era
Early Cretaceous
Appears in
The Lost Island
Number
At least a dozen; none come through anomaly
In the Primeval spin-off novel The Lost Island the team run into a sleeping herd of Polacanthus when marooned in the Cretaceous. Cutter carefully manages to move the team around the group of Ankylosaurs, and later they observe a herd of them associating with Iguanodon.

Pristichampsus[edit]

Pristichampsus

Home era
Palaeocene
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 3.1[25]
Humans killed
2
Returned to era?
Yes
The Pristichampsus was described by Adrian Hodges and Tim Haines as a "bit souped-up for our show – bigger, more powerful, all that sort of stuff" and "a running crocodile, he's also quite bipedal". It seems to be based on the real fossil crocodilian genus Pristichampsus, of which one species (P. rollinatii) was facultatively bipedal.[26][27] Pristichampsus has a vague similarity to Amut, it is later revealed that the Ancient Egyptians thought that the creature was the god Sobek, because of the similarities that they have, and that the anomaly was a gate way to the land of the gods. The series' creators have also confirmed it will be found in the Thames river and then destroy a kitchen.[25] In the new ITV Winter Spring Showreel, the Primeval trailer briefly shows the Pristichampsus rearing over cars and swimming in the river.
A Pristichampsus came through an anomaly in episode 3.1. It killed the caretaker Marianne but left her body, possibly as a warning to competitors. It attacked Sarah Page but escaped from the museum at its first opportunity through the docking door. It went on to kill a traffic warden and then swam across the Thames to a restaurant, attracted by the scent of hot food. It escaped to the top floor in a lift and attacked a cleaning woman. Cutter saved her by luring it out a window. The Pristichampsus fell, injuring its leg. It then started to return to the museum and the anomaly, its instinct to survive outweighing its instinct to hunt. Cutter, Becker and an armed escort met the creature there, but taking Sarah and Abby's advice, bowed to show there were not a threat. The Pristichampsus passed them without attacking and climbed through the anomaly just before it closed.
Throughout the episode, several other Pristichampsus almost came through the anomaly. It was revealed in the episode that Pristichampsus was the inspiration for the Egyptian goddess Amut. Cutter used this as an example that some of the anomalies and the creatures that came through them were the inspiration for myths and legends.[28]

Pteranodon[edit]

Pteranodon
Pteranodon amnh martyniuk.jpg
Species
Pteranodon
Home era
Late Cretaceous
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 1.5
Last appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 3.10
Number
1
Returned to era?
Yes
Pteranodon was a large Pterosaur, notable for its skull crest. These may have been used as mating displays, or it might have acted as a rudder, or perhaps both; also, it may have acted as a counterweight to the large beak. Despite its huge size, at 6 m (20 ft) Pteranodon is not the biggest of the pterosaurs; creatures such as Quetzalcoatlus could reach 11 m (36 ft).[4]
It could, like the modern-day albatross, glide by navigating through thermals because the Pteranodon had a high aspect ratio (wingspan to chord length) similar to that of the albatross — 9:1 for Pteranodon, compared to 8:1 for an albatross, but was also fully capable of powered flight.[29][30]
In episode 1.5, a Pteranodon appears from an anomaly above a golf course, where it apparently attacks Connor and Rex. After some chasing, Connor and Rex jump down a hill as the Pteranodon swoops and flies away above them. It was assumed that this creature was responsible for the death of a golfer earlier. Later Stephen discovers that its diet contains fish and small reptiles but no human remains, proving that it did not kill the golfer and the real killer is still out there. This also proves that it was trying to catch Rex, not kill Connor.[3]
Also, a Pteranadon appears in the opening of episode 2.2 attacking Helen Cutter after she steals one of its eggs, though this was unrelated to the events of the episode.[31]
A Pteranadon appears again in episode 3.10 attacking Helen Cutter as she tries to go through an anomaly and causes her to drop her anomaly device.

Pterosaur[edit]

Pterosaur

First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 1.3
Number
7 seen in past
Returned to era?
Never left own time
Pterosaurs are (sometimes very large) flying reptiles, that lived in the Upper Triassic to Upper Cretaceous periods. They are not dinosaurs.
In episode 1.3, Nick Cutter travels through an underwater anomaly and finds himself in a Cretaceous tropical sea, 75 million years ago. As he comes ashore and puts his scuba down on the beach he observed several Pterosaurs flying and feeding over the coastal waters.
In The Lost Island an unidentified Pterosaur species are described resting on rocks, and basking in the sun with their wings open like the modern-day cormorant.

R[edit]
Raptor[edit]

Raptor

Species
Dromaeosaurus
Home era
Mid Cretaceous
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 2.1
Last appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 5.3
Humans killed
6, and 1 wounded (Killed many in the Victorian era)
Returned to era?
Episode 2.1 – One returned, one cannibalised, another decapitated
 Episode 2.6 – No
 Episode 2.7 – Killed in fight
 Episode 3.4 – ran back through the anomaly
 Episode 3.10 – 3 in own time 1 died from fall
 4.1 – Was already in own era
 Episode 5.3 – Unknown.
Raptors are bipedal carnivores with a long, stiffened tail and had an enlarged, sickle-shaped claw on each hindfoot, which is thought to have been used to kill their prey.[32] Males were a lot stronger than the females, as the female in the show needed one indirect dose of tranquilliser to bring her down, while the male needed three direct doses of tranquilliser to bring him down, could burst through a shutter, and drag a fully-grown man.
Raptors lived and hunted in packs.[33] It was one of only five species, along with the future predators, worms, giant spiders and embolotherium where juvenile specimens have been seen. Juvenile Raptors display morphological differences such as the arms, which were proportionally longer than those of adults.[34] There has been confusion as to the identity of the raptors. While the first news entry claim the genus was Velociraptor,[35] both the official ITV site and Primeval site state that the raptors were based upon Deinonychus. It has been seen they live in Africa in the late Cretaceous, 95 million years ago, where no Deinonychus has been found.[36] Although, at one point the Primeval site did state that the raptors were based on Utahraptor. More recently they were listed as Dromaeosaurus.
The parents appear to invest little care in their young and are likely to forget the offspring is theirs if separated for too long, often resulting in cannibalism, although it was not confirmed that the cannibal Raptor was a parent and may have just been a rogue, or that if raptors were like lions, then Rogue was killing the defeated male's offspring. Raptors are shown as being covered in scales with a small crest of protofeathers that can be raised up like hackles when attacking.
In episode 2.1 two adults and an infant Deinonychus came through a shopping mall anomaly; one adult was decapitated by the closing anomaly, the other was returned and the infant was canabilised by one of the adults. They appear again in The Lost Island novel, hunting and killing three people marooned with the team in the Early Cretaceous. They are described as being Dromaeosaurs, but are also said to bear a resemblance to the Raptors in the earlier shopping mall episode. In episode 2.6 and episode 2.7 at least two fully grown Deinonychus were seen in Leeks creature prison. They were killed in a fight with other creatures at the end of the episode 2.7.
Episode 3.4 shows Mick Harper and Nigel Marven approaching a juvenile Velociraptor in an aircraft hangar, before Nigel was killed by the Giganotosaurus that followed it. Velociraptor also feature in Fire and Water.
Dromaeosaurus made an appearance in episode 3.10, attacking Danny Quin, Conner Temple and Abby Maitland. Three are seen feasting on another raptor's carcass in a forest and they then proceed to attack the three members of the team before they were knocked out by a stun grenade. Another raptor later followed Danny through an anomaly into Pliocene Africa and charged at Helen and knocks her off a cliff, killing them both.
In episode 4.1 in the Cretaceous a male Dromaeosaurus takes Abby's blanket to decorate its bower so as to impress a mate. It was later lured by Abby with her blanket to provide a distraction for a Spinosaurus standing near an anomaly, and after a brief fight the raptor was killed.
In episode 5.3, a Deinonychus was responsible for several murders in the Victorian era. Matt and Emily encounter it and have a small battle with it. It later kills Henry Merchant before being shot multiple times with an EMD by Becker.
The Deinonychus also appears on the Watch YouTube game. It takes one shot to kill it.

S[edit]
Sarcopterygian[edit]

Sarcopterygian
Coelacanth-bgiu.png
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 1.1 (mentioned)
Returned to era?
No
Sarcopterygians are a group of prehistoric fish which are traditionally classed as lobe-finned fish, which in the real world include the modern day lungfish and the coelacanth, Latimeria. These are bony fish with paired rounded fins. The fin-limbs of Sarcopterygiians are so like the expected ancestral form of tetrapod limbs that they have been universally considered the direct ancestors of land vertebrates.[37]
Sarcopterygians have modified cosmoid scales, which are thinner than true cosmoid scales, which can only be found on extinct fish. Coelacanths also have a special electroreceptive device called a rostral organ in the front of the skull, which probably helps in prey detection.
One fossilised member of this group appears in the first episode, Cutter explaining that this specimen appears in the fossil record at a time when it should have been extinct for 70 million years, and the fact that a live one appeared in the Indian Ocean. This suggests that there has been at least one anomaly in the distant past, and one outside of Britain.[14] This was later confirmed in the Primeval spin-off novel Shadow of the Jaguar.

Scutosaurus[edit]

Scutosaurus
Scutosaurus BW.jpg
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 1.1
Last appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 2.7
Humans killed
2
Returned to era?
Episode 1.1 – Yes
 Episode 2.7 – Unknown, more likely to be returned to its time era before Stephen's funeral than part of the fight.
Scutosaurus was a genus of armour-covered Permian period pareiasaur, loosely related to the turtles. Its genus name refers to large plates of bony scutes (osteoderms) set in the skin, as a defence against predators. But the most unusual thing about them were the heavy skulls ornamented with strange knobs and ridges. It was of a very heavy build, almost rhinoceros-like. Unlike most reptiles, held its legs underneath its body with stubby toes to support its great weight.
They have an important role in episode 1.1 and in episode 1.6 a herd if briefly seen on a hillside, in episode 2.6 they are seen locked up at the rear of Leek's animal containment facility and in episode 2.7 they play a more important role, being used by the team to kill two of Leek's men.
These fearsome-looking animals were in fact inoffensive herbivores, which were well adapted to the dry conditions which covered much of Pangaea at that time. A social animal, they migrated in large groups.[4] The leaf-shaped multi-cusped teeth resemble those of iguanas, caseids, and other reptilian herbivores. This dentition, together with the deep capacious body which would have housed an extensive digestive tract. When in the past, they see several more Scutosaurus roaming a desert.[14]
Although initially described correctly as a pareiasaur, this species is from then on called a dinosaur throughout the episode in which it appears. Although based on the heavily armoured species called Scutosaurus kapinski that lived about 250 million years ago in Russia, the size of the Scutosaurus in the series is exaggerated.[1] It is described as at least "five or six tons" in weight, about as big as an elephant. In fact the actual Scutosaurus was much smaller, no more than 3 m (10 ft) in length. They appear locked up at the end of episode 2.7.

Shrew-like Creature[edit]

Shrew

Home era
Late Cretaceous
Appears in
Extinction Event
Number
2 captured in the present
In a small building used by the Russian anomaly team used for captured specimens, Cutter observes a pair of small shrew-like creatures scuttling around in a tank, while explaining to Abby how the mammals inherit the Earth after the K-T Event.

Silurian Scorpion[edit]

Silurian Scorpion

Home era
Silurian
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 2.5
Last appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 2.7
Number
1
Humans killed
6
Returned to era?
Episode 2.5 — already in its own time.
 Episode 2.7 — 1 Killed in a fight and 1 caught by Stephen.
The Silurian Scorpion is a prehistoric creature from the Silurian that grows to immense sizes, and is a variety of animal similar to Brontoscorpio. They have a long whip-like tail, spikes on the foreclaws and a flattened body, similar to modern day whip scorpions. The scorpions never come through the anomaly in their first appearance, but did in the second season finale, along with many other creatures. They are probably reimagined from the ones in Walking with Monsters by the producers to make them bigger and more frightening. They hunt by sensing surface vibrations and burrowing underground, similar to the giant worms from the film Tremors. Their main food source appears to be the Silurian millipedes. In reality, scorpions of this size would not be able to breathe, let alone move about.
The scorpions made a reappearance in episode 2.7. One of them was released onto a crowded beach by Oliver Leek to show his power, where it killed two tourists and scared everyone else away. Stephen Hart set out to deal with it on his own, and harpooned it below a bridge. The still alive creature was left to be collected at leisure. Its fate was unknown, but presumably it was killed.
They appear in a flashback in episode 3.2, when Cutter recognises the Cleaner and thought he was killed by the scorpions. They are referred to as "Silurian Scorpions" in the episode, but they are listed as "Giant scorpion" on the Primeval official websites.

Smilodon[edit]

Smilodon

Home era
Pleistocene
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 2.3
Last appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 2.7
Number
1
Humans killed
5
Returned to era?
Episode 2.3 – No, kept by Oliver Leek
 Episode 2.7 – Presumably killed
Smilodon is a vicious carnivorous sabre-toothed cat that lived in the Pleistocene in both North and South America. They are commonly and incorrectly called "sabre toothed tigers" where, in truth, all modern day tigers evolved from a different line.[38]
A fully-grown Smilodon weighed approximately 200 kg (440 lb) and had a short tail, powerful legs, and a large head. The cats have two huge canine teeth, about 17 cm (7 in) long, that are used to kill prey by suffocation.[39] The jaws could open to about 120 degrees in order to use these fangs to deadly effect. They eventually died out due to climate change.
Smilodon was mentioned in episode 1.4 by Helen Cutter as "sabre-toothed killers". However, she apparently lied when she claimed they would come through at that point, and escaped through the Spaghetti Junction. They are also seen, in skeleton form, in Cutter's office. The cat made a proper appearance in the second series, rampaging through a local park. It was being looked after by a ranger named Valerie, who apparently had cared for it since it first came through, as a cub. She was later killed by it. The cat was apparently killed by a heart attack after being tranquillised. When Cutter hears of this he is puzzled since it was healthy, pointing towards other involvement. In fact, the sabre-tooth was really smuggled along with several other creatures. It reappears in episode 2.6 and episode 2.7.[40]

Spinosaurus[edit]

Spinosaurus

Home era
late Cretaceous
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 4.1
Last appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 5.5
Number
1
Returned to era?
possibly Anomaly time unknown
The Spinosaurus is the largest carnivorous dinosaur, weighing 4–8 t (4–8 long tons) and 18 m (59 ft) in length. It lived in Africa in the late Cretaceous. It is bipedal has a large "sail" on its back, though the one in the show included an additional mini sail on its tail.
In episode 4.1, a Spinosaurus is stalking Connor and Abby in the Cretaceous when the pair open an anomaly to the present using Helen's anomaly device. Abby lures a raptor towards the territorial Spinosaurus to distract it, and the larger dinosaur wins the fight while the two slip through the anomaly. When the anomaly was accidentally unlocked it came through and rampaged through the city, and was lured into an arena to be contained. Connor attempted to open another anomaly as Abby distracted it with lights and music and Becker and his men brought it down with their new EMDs. However it got back up and tried to attack Connor and Matt who were hanging from the ceiling, and it swallows the anomaly device and disappears into the anomaly created by it inside the Spinosaurus' stomach.
Spinosaurus was seen again in Episode 5.5, though this was stock from 4.1.

Stegosaurus[edit]

Stegosaurus
Stegosaurus BW.jpg
Home era
late Jurassic
Appears in
Series 4 webisode 1
Number
1 (at least)
Stegosaurus is the largest and most famous member of the Stegosaurid family, growing up to 9 m (30 ft) in length and more than capable of defending itself from predators with the four spikes on the end of its tail. A row of plates along its back, its most recognisable feature, may have been used as a cooling system in hot weather or to flash colour that could be used to entice mates or threaten enemies and predators.
Series 4 webisode 1 includes CCTV footage of a Stegosaurus causing havoc in the House of Commons during the time between Series 3 and 4. However this was not a real Stegosaurus, the CG model was that of the Embolotherium, reused with close up footage.

Swimming Theropod[edit]

"Swimming Theropod"

Species
Eustreptospondylus or Balaur
Home era
Middle Jurassic (Callovian Epoch)
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 5.2
Humans killed
2
Returned to era?
Yes, then eaten by a Liopleurodon
A juvenile theropod was found unconscious in the North Sea and taken on board a naval submarine. After awakening, it attacked and killed a crewman. It was stunned by Abby and Connor, and then expelled through a torpedo-like tube into the Jurassic seas where it was eaten by a Liopleurodon.

T[edit]
Therocephalian[edit]

Therocephalia
Moschorhinus DB.jpg
Home era
Late Permian
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 4.4
Number
20+
Humans killed
2
Returned to era?
Not shown, all had been gassed by smoke bombs.
Therocephalians are an extinct suborder of carnivorous eutheriodont therapsids that lived from the middle and late Permian into the Triassic. Therocephalians ("beast-heads") are named after their large skulls, which, along with the structure of their teeth, suggest that they were successful carnivores. Like other non-mammalian synapsids, therocephalians are described as mammal-like reptiles, although in fact, Therocephalia is the group most closely related to the cynodonts, which gave rise to the mammals. The earlier therocephalians were in many respects as primitive as the gorgonopsids, but they did show certain advanced features. The discovery of maxilloturbinal ridges in some specimens suggests that at least some therocephalians may have been warm-blooded.
A species of Therocephalian appears in episode 4.4. Numerous creatures the size of a large dog come through an anomaly at a school, and kill a teacher and a female student. Matt, Becker, and Connor deal with the venomous creatures, and Becker was bitten by one of the venomous creatures to paralyse him, but later recovered.

Thylacosmilus[edit]

Thylacosmilus

Home era
Plio-Pleistocene
Appears in
Shadow of the Jaguar
Number
6+
Humans killed
40+
Returned to era?
Four return, one killed by the SAS members, another by Future Bird
Thylacosmilus was a pouched carnivore, resembling a sabre-toothed cat, that lived in South America 2 million years ago. It had a long, curving chin and a large pair of sabre teeth used for killing its prey. Thylacosmilus eventually went extinct due to being outcompeted by true sabre-tooth cats such as Smilodon.
In Shadow of the Jaguar, the first known anomaly to open overseas is in a biological reserve in the Peruvian rainforest and allows a pack of Thylacosmilus access to the modern world. They proceed to go on the rampage, wiping out several small villages, killing one of the sons of a senior man to Sir James Lester (Sir Charles), killing a sloth and killing several members of the SAS. A second pride of six Thylacosmilus are followed and some are killed by the SAS. It turns out that the Thylacosmilus are under the control of a creature from the future, which is using pheromones to control the pack's instinct and use them like hunting hounds. After the team disrupt the bird's control, the Thylacosmilus flee in terror back through the anomaly, just before it closes.

Torosaurus[edit]

Torosaurus
Torosaurus BW.jpg
Home era
Late Cretaceous
Appears in
Extinction Event
Number
Large herds, several animals are killed
In Extinction Event, several large groups of Torosaurus are seen. They are described as having huge frills, long horns and being aggressively unpredictable. In the first instance, a mother is killed whilst defending her calf and almost killing Connor in the process, and her calf is then killed by an unseen predator, which later turns out to be a Tyrannosaurus. Later on, a large herd is found by a river, and several animals are killed after a tank fires at them. The Torosaurus then attack the tanks and succeed in killing the driver.

Tree Creeper[edit]

Tree Creeper

Home era
Cretaceous
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 4.3
Last appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 5.5
Humans killed
1
Returned to era?
4.3 – 1 (All killed, but one fell back into the anomaly)
 5.5 – Unknown
Large (approx. 2 m high) Cretaceous[41] apelike arboreal dinosaurs, can climb easily using claws and a long prehensile tail, which they also use to grab their prey. Vicious carnivores with a head resembling the Raptor and a retractable sickle claw. There is currently little evidence to support what an actual one looks like.
Two came through an anomaly in a London theatre in episode 4.3. Another one attacked Emily in the Cretaceous before Matt rescued her, and gave chase through the anomaly only to be blasted back with EMDs. One of the two in the present was immediately shot by Becker, and the other is killed by falling after a chase Matt and Emily. Given the name "Tree Creepers" by Emily Merchant, real species name, if any, not known.
A Tree Creeper is also appears in episode 5.5, when it comes through an anomaly into the ARC carpark. It curiously investigates Lester's new Jaguar, and Lester comes to defend it, bringing down the creature with a few EMD bursts. It is unknown if Lester sent the creature back through the anomaly.

Triceratops[edit]

Triceratops
Triceratops BW.jpg
Species
Triceratops
Home era
Late Cretaceous
Appears in
Fire and Water
Number
Fire and Water – 2
 Episode 2.1 – 1
Humans killed
0
Returned to era?
Yes.
A Triceratops came through an anomaly into a food by a skating park in Vancouver. Evan and Dylan followed it to Evan's old rival Howard Kanan who witnessed it charge at Evan late it was discovered that it was attracted by Dylan's red coat which they used to lure it back through the anomaly before it closed but unfortunately Howard followed it through and was marooned in the Cretaceous.

Troodon[edit]

Troodon

Home era
Late Cretaceous
Appears in
Extinction Event
Number
Several individuals, in both the past, and in the present.
Humans killed
1
Returned to era?
No
Troodon are small carnivorous dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous. They had the largest brain of any dinosaur.
Several are encountered in Extinction Event, where they are described as being intelligent, ruthless predators. They were first encountered feasting on the carcass of a dead Anatotitan, which had apparently been killed by shock, as a result of a meteor strike. Later, Jenny and Helen Cutter are in the Cretaceous period, and one of the SAS soldiers assigned to help them, Tim Jenkins, was dragged away by the Troodons, who ate him alive due to his crippling caused by a Dimetrodon. The rest of the team were too late to save him. Later in the present, a pack of Troodon showed up at the overturned car Jenny and Hemple were in. Jenny attempted to keep them at bay by using a large metal rod that she had found in the truck's wreck. However, one of the Troodon then knocked her down to the ground, and pinned her down, with its foot. Just as it was about to kill her, the car's ruptured fuel tank caught on fire, scaring the Troodons away.

Tyrannosaurus[edit]

Tyrannosaurus
Tyrannosaurus BW.jpg
Species
Tyrannosaurus rex
Home era
Late Cretaceous
Appears in
Extinction Event
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 5.5
Number
Extinction Event – 2
 Episode 5.5 – 1
Humans killed
20
Returned to era?
No. Extinction Event – Male killed by female and female remains in Siberia.
 Episode 5.5 – Presumably.
Tyrannosaurus is the most well known carnivorous dinosaur despite not being the largest.
In Extinction Event, a pair of Tyrannosaurus stalk the forests of Siberia, referred to many as Baba Yaga after a figure in Russian folklore. The female does most of the damage, killing a Torosaurus calf and several men before it encounters the male Tyrannosaurus, which has just arrived from the Cretaceous having killed a Pachycephalosaurus. The male and female fight, and the female kills her smaller rival. Surprisingly, the female Tyrannosaurus is not stopped, and merely returns to the dank, Russian forests, having killed her competitor.
In Episode 5.5 one rampaged through the streets of London, killing a few people until shot multiple times by Matt with an EMD knocking the creature out. This creature was the initial cause of the public's realisation of the anomalies.

U[edit]
Unknown Theropod[edit]

Unknown Theropod (possibly a Eocarcharia)

Home era
Cretaceous
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 4.1
Number
1
The Unknown Theropod is an unknown species of large, tyrannosaur-like theropod dinosaur from the Cretaceous. Abby Maitland documented this theropod in her diary during the time when she and Connor Temple were marooned in the Cretaceous, and the document on the theropod was ultimately unintentionally burnt and destroyed by Abby.

V[edit]
Velociraptor[edit]

Velociraptor

Home era
Late Cretaceous
Appears in
Fire and Water
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 3.4
Number
1 in episode 3.4, 6 in Fire And Water
Returned to era?
Yes
In episode 3.4, a huge anomaly opens, in an aeroplane hangar. Nigel Marven and a media team is called to investigate. A juvenile Velociraptor runs out of it and bites Nigel on the hand. It then runs back through the anomaly just before the Giganotosaurus comes through. Six Velociraptors came through an anomaly into a wet and rainy Maidenhead in Fire and Water. They were all returned but several were shot in the past when they tried to kill Becker and they did succeed in killing one of his colleagues, Jamie Weavers.

W[edit]
Worm[edit]

Worm

Home era
Pre-Cambrian
First appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 2.2
Last appearance
 (Primeval)
Episode 5.5
Number
40+
Humans killed
3
Returned to era?
No. All killed, most by heat caused by a thermostat.
Although many invertebrates are commonly called worms, the Primeval worms are very large carnivorous worms from some time before the oxygen catastrophe, 2.7 billion years ago. In reality such a creature is impossible – for any lifeform to grow that big it would need an atmosphere more energy-rich than the fog they live in and they would not be able to breathe let alone move in it. The worms have long retractable mouthparts, large enough to engulf a man, for feeding. These creatures were based on marine ragworms. The worms need movement to sense their prey, and can be fooled if a person stands still and throws an inanimate object[31]
In the episode, the worms cannot survive outside the "fog", which is first shown when Nick and Stephen trap the mouthparts in a door separating the fog: if separated from their natural atmosphere, oxygen, highly poisonous to them, kills them. The fog is the Pre-Cambrian atmosphere, which presumably comes through the anomaly. When they are faced with an increase of heat, they explode to spawn their young which then attempt to burrow into a living host. This life cycle is not dissimilar to the parasite. They can also spit a brown-coloured slime, which might be used to track or even attack their prey.[31]
It also reappears in a classroom during the convergence of the anomalies in Series 5.
They appear to resemble the Carnictis from the 2005 remake of King Kong

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This is a list of locations in the fictional show Prehistoric Park


Contents  [hide]
1 Main complex
2 Time portal site
3 Nigel's base
4 Animal Enclosures 4.1 Mammoth Mount
4.2 Triceratops Creek
4.3 Big cat climb
4.4 Crocodile lake/Deinosuchus dip
4.5 T. rex Hill
4.6 Ornithomimus pond
4.7 The Bug House
5 Other locations
6 See also

Main complex[edit]
The park appears to have a central base, not far from the entrance, on a grassy hill. The main road appears to lead to the Main complex and is surrounded by trees next to an ornate lake. The main complex appear to be a many buildings next to each other. The design is wooden supports with asymmetrical thatch roofs. This may have been a deliberate design choice, as the enclosure fences also appear to be made of wood in an attempt to make the park seem as natural as possible. This complex is actually Didima camp in front of Cathedral Peak in the Drakensberg mountains in South Africa.
Time portal site[edit]
The time portal is near a set of barracks. The portal is inside a strong stockaded corridor which channels the creatures coming through down into the many (roofless) containment chambers along its length. The containment chambers are built alongside the main corridor and are connected to it via sliding doors that herd the animals into different sections of the barracks, like a labyrinth.
The compound has walkways all along the main corridor and the containment chambers to let park workers look down at the animals, with metal ladders for climbing up and down into the corridor and chambers. Each chamber has a back door for trucks and containment vehicles to move back and forth and its own stone water trough and appears designed to hold the animals for extended periods until transportation can be sent to pick them up.
Nigel's base[edit]



 Nigel's base of operations
Nigel’s base appears to be separate from the main complex, which means it deserves special mention. Like the main complex it appears to be a wooden structure with a thatch roof (which the escaped titanosaurs seem to find tasty, as seen in one of the episodes). Unlike the main complex it is a two-storey structure with balconies connecting the rooms. The ground level was never seen, although below one balcony there appears to be an aviary, which is probably where the Microraptor were put, given that one of them was seen with Nigel on a balcony at the end of the third episode. The Base is definitely home to Nigel’s pets and maybe the tame cheetah (and Microraptor) which have free run of his office and the facility.
Alongside one balcony there is a small veranda with a drinks table, chairs, and a hammock that overlooks the park, presumably where Nigel entertains important visitors. Nigel’s office is surprisingly small, although it is made to look that way because Nigel rarely puts anything away and leaves books and bones all over his desk and shelves, clearly more interested in rescuing more and more animals than the day-to-day running of his park (which falls on Bob's shoulders). But it has telephones, computers, and the latest equipment, and a pin-up map of the park. The park conferences are convened in his office. An interesting piece of trivia is that the only employees given free access to his base are Bob and Suzanne, which shows just how important they are in the parks command hierarchy.
Animal Enclosures[edit]
Mammoth Mount[edit]
Mammoth Mount is in the upland regions of the park and has a home for the park's resident woolly mammoth and a small herd of modern African elephants. The terrain is dry, made up mostly of Serengeti-like open grassland with a few trees and shrubs. Its one of the few exhibits that is not suited to its residents, as the climate is far too warm for an Ice Age mammal; building the park in a warm country was necessary for the park's growing reptile and dinosaur population which make up the bulk of the park's inhabitants, so this problem was rectified by making sure Martha's hair is regularly cut to prevent overheating.
Unlike the other exhibits, Mammoth Mount only has small wooden barriers, which appear to keep the animals caged despite their paltry appearance. There is also a small holding paddock within the enclosure where Martha was kept before releasing her into the main enclosure because they were unsure of how the elephants would react. Mammoth Mount recently endured a serious Tyrannosaurus Rex invasion, which broke barriers and almost caused the death of the elephant herd's only calf, which given their slow reproductive rate would have been a major blow. Fortunately Martha repelled the attack and the damage to the enclosure was quickly repaired by the new employees.
Triceratops Creek[edit]
Located in a region of the park with little grass, Triceratops Creek is on the banks of a creek which flows through it, presumably under the fence, and is probably the most visually attractive enclosure in the park. Because of the Triceratops' diet it has a thick forest of low shrubs and small trees. The enclosure is surrounded on all sides with tall wooden fences and a dirt road leading up to a bare region near the enclosure's main entrance (which is big enough to drive a tractor through) and sign. The wooden fences are surprisingly strong, as they withstood the temper tantrums of a five-ton Triceratops. It was also spared destruction during the mass breakout, which Theo did not take part in, although the T-Rex did pass his enclosure whilst chasing Nigel.
Big cat climb[edit]
The Smilodon enclosure is surrounded on all sides with tall wooden fences, as Smilodon, like most cats, appear to be excellent climbers. The terrain is open grass with little foliage. There is a partition, with a door that can be raised, separating the two Smilodon from each other. When the two mated the door was presumably left open letting them wander between both sides. It has two small wooden bunkers on both sides for the cats to sleep in and find shade and numerous climbing frames to keep the Smilodon happy.It is stated that it is just a breeding enclosure in episode 4.
Crocodile lake/Deinosuchus dip[edit]
In the park, a crocodile lake has been made near the Time Portal site. The lake appears artificial with small islands and a foot suspension bridge across it, the simple sort where the footway follows the catenary. The Deinosuchus pond is nearby and is almost identical. It could be the same location, although this is unlikely given that the Deinosuchus is aggressive and would most likely eat the resident Nile crocodiles if left unattended. Although both have jeep roads running alongside, there are no visible barriers or fences around either lake, although the storyboard sequences shows Nigel jumping over a chain link fence, showing that both lakes have fences to contain the animals, but the fences were never shown.
T. rex Hill[edit]
The Tyrannosaurus enclosure is at the base of a hill and is filled with thick forest for shade with open areas for the dinosaurs to run around in and a lake with a small footpath cutting through it.
The enclosure has a derrick used to feed the animals inside. The derrick probably remains on site, as it would be illogical and unnecessary to bring it back and forth every day. The Tyrannosaurus enclosure is surrounded on all sides with tall wooden fences and a dirt road leading up to a bare area near the enclosure's main entrance and sign. The wooden fence near the entrance is made up of slats with gaps between them, for viewing the animals, but the fence at the back is made up of wooden slats with no gaps as a solid wall.
As the Tyrannosaurus got older, they began to fight, so Bob built a partition across their enclosure, and put one of them on each side. The first partition was not strong enough and Matilda broke through. The repaired partition worked better, and now Matilda, while still keeping on threatening Terence, cannot reach him nor do anything to him except roar with impotent rage. During the mass breakout Matilda’s side of the enclosure was breached and she promptly escaped. Terence's side of the cage was untouched and he played no part in the rampage.
Ornithomimus pond[edit]
The Ornithomimus paddock is a converted ostrich paddock and was seen as an ideal place to keep them. The terrain is mostly large open areas with woodland around a central lake. The lake was added after the Ornithomimus were put into their new home when it was realized that they cannot eat the grass. They may look like ratites but "they have more in common with Daffy Duck than Emu".
Bob also built a small hide on the lakeside where he could observe what appear to be his favourite dinosaurs. It was in the foliage near there where the broody Ornithomimus nested. The fences are waist-high and wooden made up of slats with gaps between them. Unlike most other enclosures, the main entrance door is kept shut with rope rather than with metal locks. The Ornithomimus Paddock was damaged during the mass breakout but none of the flock was hurt and the damage was repaired.
The Bug House[edit]
The Bug House is a concrete and brick structure with two adjoining rooms, each with a dome on its roof. They resemble the biomes used in the Eden Project and are presumably constructed in the same way, with tubular steel frames with hexagonal transparent panels made from a triple layer of thin UV-transparent ETFE film, inflated to create a large space between the two sides and trapping heat like double-glazed windows. (Glass is too heavy and potentially dangerous). The occupants include an Arthropleura, a Meganeura and a Pulmonoscorpius.
During the construction, the site was plagued by the free-roaming herd of titanosaurs, which were probably searching the site for gastroliths. This may have been a minor problem for the dinosaurs, but they would frequently knock over the walls and generally cause havoc. Fortunately, this restless behavior stopped soon after its completion.
The entrance has two air-tight doors with a long corridor between, serving as an airlock. The two adjoining rooms have walls made mostly out of transparent bubbles, presumably for viewing the animals inside. Inside there appears to be no partition separating the species. It is filled entirely with tropical plants, but does not have a pond: this may be why Nigel was reluctant to bring back large amphibians. The Bug House was only seen in the titular episode, so little is known about its construction besides the above mentioned. A demonstration with a lighted taper showed that the structure, due to its high oxygen atmosphere (35% nitrox), is vulnerable to fire; so it presumably has adequate fire alarms and sprinkler systems. It was spared destruction during the mass breakout, which is fortunate, as the inhabitants would probably suffer hypoxia if exposed to the modern-day atmosphere with its 20% oxygen level, if they were not crushed by the heavy walls and roof collapsing in on them.
Other locations[edit]
These locations were seen only briefly, only mentioned, or have been abandoned.
Titanosaur Treetops. Titanosaur Treetops was made of thick wooden walls, some parts had gaps and some parts did not. Soon after Nigel brought them back, however, the titanosaurs reared up and smashed down their fence, and the titanosaurs now roam free. It is possible that another enclosure was built for them after the mass breakout (which was caused by a spooked titanosaur). Name of enclosure can be seen faintly in the foreground of the special features menu in the DVD.
Elasmotherium Paddock. This is where the Elasmotherium is kept. This enclosure is composed mostly of muddy grassland. Its fence was broken during the mass escape, but was presumably mended by the end of the episode.
Terror bird Paddock. The Terror bird Paddock is composed mostly of sandy grassland due to the Phorusrhacos's need to dust bathe. The fences were tall but did not go deep enough into the ground, so the Phorusrhacos undermined it when digging dust-bathing holes. It was broken during the mass escape and supposedly rebuilt with fence posts buried four feet deep.
Troodon Captivity. This is where the Troodon is kept.
Microraptor Fortress. Microraptor Fortress is a place for the Microraptors to fly around.
See also[edit]
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 The following is a list of episodes of Prehistoric Park.


Contents  [hide]
1 Season 1, Episode 1: T. rex Returns
2 Season 1, Episode 2: A Mammoth Undertaking
3 Season 1, Episode 3: Dinobirds
4 Season 1, Episode 4: Saving the Sabretooth
5 Season 1, Episode 5: The Bug House
6 Season 1, Episode 6: Supercroc
7 See also

Season 1, Episode 1: T. rex Returns[edit]
Montana, 65 million years ago, Cretaceous.
Genera encountered:
Ornithomimus
Tyrannosaurus
Triceratops
Nyctosaurus (unidentified)
The episode starts with the crew erecting the prehistoric animal enclosures. Nigel immediately knows which animal he wants to bring back first: the huge dinosaur Tyrannosaurus.
Nigel goes through the time portal, aiming to bring back a Tyrannosaurus. He finds a flock of Ornithomimus and tries to catch one by putting a sock over its head to quieten it, but must let it go when three Tyrannosaurus arrive. Nigel is pursued by the Tyrannosaurus, but they give up when he heads into the deeper forest where they cannot pursue as they are so top-heavy, tripping could kill them.
He tracks the Tyrannosaurus to the middle of their territory. He finds some Tyrannosaurus eggs, hoping to bring some back for hatching, but they are broken and empty, either hatched or eaten. As he returns to camp, in the sky are meteors running ahead of the asteroid which will wipe out the dinosaurs.
The next day he finds a herd of Triceratops. The pride of Tyrannosaurus attack the Triceratops herd. A female Tyrannosaurus is gored in the thigh during the attack. The male Tyrannosaurus back off, leaving the wounded Tyrannosaurus to catch her prey alone. It goes after a 3-ton young male Triceratops, Nigel opens the time portal and leads the Triceratops through it by waving his jacket at it matador-fashion. It follows him through but the Tyrannosaurus does not follow. The Triceratops is named Theo and becomes the park's first exhibit. Theo starts persistently charging the same tree, and his neck frill changes color. Susanne thinks that it is rutting. This gives Bob an idea.
Nigel heads back through the time portal and finds a Tyrannosaurus track in volcanic ash, and sees by the dragged toes that it is the female with the gored thigh. Nigel sees that the Tyrannosaurus is walking alongside a river following a drifting Triceratops carcass. The carcass gets stuck in rocks in the riverbed. She cannot reach it and carries on downriver. Nigel and others build a crude stockade wall alongside the river out of local fallen timber, trying to funnel her through the time portal. A flock of Ornithomimus appear and run ahead, and the Tyrannosaurus chases them through the time portal into the park. The Tyrannosaurus catches a straggler, a young Ornithomimus near Nigel and turns back. Instead of eating it there, she carries it towards the volcano despite her injured thigh. Nigel follows.
Back at the park, Bob puts the Ornithomimus into their new paddock and gets back to his plan for Theo.
Meanwhile, Nigel continues to follow the wounded Tyrannosaurus until he finds that she has two babies. Nigel plans to bring the Tyrannosaurus mother and her babies back to the park with him, but a male Tyrannosaurus attacks the female for her kill. In the ensuing battle, the male Tyrannosaurus smashes the female's head against a rock formation, an injury that results in the mother's death before her last roar to Nigel to save her children.
At this point, a 6-mile-wide asteroid enters the Earth's atmosphere at 20,000 mph (32,000 km/h) and hits the Gulf of Mexico. The explosion is 7 billion times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb, and its blast column can be seen in Montana. It leaves Nigel with three minutes while the blast front travels from Chicxulub to Montana at 200 times the speed of sound (c 245,000 km/h) and reaches him. Under a sky full of bright meteors, he uses the only meat that he has (what appears to be a ham sandwich) to entice the two young Tyrannosaurus through the time portal with a second to spare; a bit of the impact blast chases him through the Time Portal. In the park, they are put in an observation pen and named Terence and Matilda.
The head keeper copes with Theo's rutting by making a "rival" for Theo by using old tires and oddments to build a crude mock Triceratops head and neck on the front of a tractor, providing something for Theo to take his aggression out on. Later, Terence and Matilda are moved to their new enclosure. The Park takes into account that keeping the pair under control is going to be a major challenge.
Airdate: 22 July 2006
Season 1, Episode 2: A Mammoth Undertaking[edit]
Siberia, 10,000 and 150,000 years ago, Pleistocene.
Genera encountered:
Cave Bear
Woolly Mammoth
Cro-Magnon (live-acted by Human)
Cave Hyena (live-acted by Spotted Hyena)
Gray Wolf (live-acted by Siberian husky)
Elasmotherium
In the park, the dinosaurs are settling in. The Tyrannosaurus are being fed. Nigel goes to visit a herd of African elephants in the park: there are at least four including a young calf. He now wants to rescue a mammoth from extinction.
He goes through the Time Portal to 10,000 BC northwest Siberia just east of the Ural Mountains where the last mammoths lived. It is early spring but the land is still under snow. He drives a snowmobile over a frozen lake. He sees nothing but dense taiga forest and rocky mountains: as the land became warmer as the Ice Age ended, trees replaced tundra grass and Mammoths lost their grazing lands. As they cannot eat pine needles, this reduced their numbers. Then prehistoric Cro-Magnon humans finished them off by hunting them for food
He explores a nearby cave and comes face to face with a muscular male cave bear; he had disturbed its hibernation. He had thought that the cave bear would already be extinct by this point. It chases Nigel and the cameraman away. Without the equipment to transport it safely, Nigel cannot save it, so he decides to get back to saving a mammoth.
Nigel goes up a rocky slope to scout the area. He sees what a gap in the trees: it may be open land, and perhaps there are mammoths there. He decides to check.
He finds two adolescent female mammoths. The older mammoth is dead in a pit. The younger mammoth makes rumblings in her stomach, trying to communicate with her dead companion. She looks ill. She staggers and falls to the ground. She is so weak that she can barely lift her trunk. She is staying with the fallen mammoth; they may be sisters. Nigel sees a spear wound in her left shoulder. He brings in his team to help.
In the park, the Ornithomimus are not eating the grass, nor the beetles living there. Bob realises that they have duck-like mouths: rough like sandpaper. He decides to put them into an enclosure with a pond. The Ornithomimus thrive in their new home.
Nigel needs to get the mammoth strong enough to walk through the Time Portal. He gives her an antibiotic injection. Evening comes and the palaeolithic hunters are back. The Park men put up a line of big burning torches stuck in the ground. The men plan to guard in turns, but Nigel decides to sit up with the Mammuthus all night, to keep her company. Wolves prowl about at a distance all night.
Morning comes and the mammoth is strong enough to stand. It shows no aggression, and stays with her dead sister, but the team must get her back to the park. They set up the Time Portal. Nigel leads the mammoth back to the present and calls on a walkie-talkie for urgent medical help.
In the park, Susanne gives sedative and antibiotic to the mammoth, treats the wound, and after some pulling extracts a stone spearhead from it. She is on the road to recovery. They name her Martha.
Martha is healthy, but is not eating, and needs to eat for strength to recover. They put Martha in an enclosure labeled "Mammoth Mount". Suzanne looks at an African elephant molar and a mammoth molar, and sees that they are designed to chew about the same sorts of food. Maybe Martha is not eating because she needs a specific diet.
To solve the mystery, Nigel goes through the Time Portal to the same place in Siberia 150,000 years ago at the peak of the ice age. Mammoths range across from Europe to northeast Asia. He finds a large herd of adult female mammoths. The land is cold but dry and has many kinds of grass and no trees. Each herd follows a matriarch, who is 50 or 60 years old. He collects a large sample of grass and mosses to bring back and analyse. A male mammoth on musth comes, looking for females ready to mate. All the mammoths are thriving on the grassland diet.
He sees a sub-adult male Elasmotherium by the snowmobile. It is downwind from him. but there is a risk of it seeing him, and if it sees anything unexpected it may charge. Nigel is between the Elasmotherium and the musth male mammoth. He drops the bag of vegetation and runs to the snowmobile and drives to a safe distance. Nigel decides to bring the Elasmotherium back, riskily using himself as bait, as Elasmotherium will soon be extinct due to climate change. Nigel runs to the sample bag. The Elasmotherium charges at him. Nigel picks the bag up and runs. The Elasmotherium chases him through the Time Portal into the entrance stockade in the park.
Back at the Park, Nigel offers Martha the Ice Age grass, but Martha still refuses to eat. Whilst he admits it is anthropomorphic to say so, Nigel thinks that she looks lonely; in the wild female mammoths are always in groups.
The Elasmotherium, which is accustomed to being alone, is settling in but Martha is accustomed to being with relatives. There is a council, to decide on putting Martha with the elephants. It is risky: elephant matriarchs have been known to kill new elephants that tried to push into an established herd but they decide to try it.
At Mammoth Mount, the elephants come up to Martha's enclosure. Martha and the elephants' matriarch approach each other, curious, and non-aggressively. Nigel calls to open the gate. Martha follows the elephant matriarch. Martha is now eating well.
Airdate: 29 July 2006
Season 1, Episode 3: Dinobirds[edit]
Northeast China, 125 million years ago, Cretaceous
Genera encountered:
Incisivosaurus
Mei long
Microraptor
Pterosaurs
Titanosaurs
This is a rescue mission just before the site area's dinosaurs were wiped out by a volcano. It is aimed at getting specimens of Microraptor, which is threatened by volcanoes and with being out-competed by the coming birds. (Note that unlike the other dinosaurs in the episode, Microraptor was not present in the Lujiatun Beds of the Yixian Formation, and did not live alongside Mei and Incisivosaurus. In reality, it lived several million years later, and hails from the Jiufotang Formation, 120-110 million years ago).
In the park, there are now more than 24 animals. The two juvenile Tyrannosaurus often threaten each other. There is a heat wave and Martha the mammoth with her small ears and long hair and blubber is affected by the heat, as she had been brought from an Ice Age winter.
Nigel and four other people go on foot through the time portal to the site. A large threatening volcano stands over the area. There are hot springs, and a risk of natural carbon dioxide seepage. There is a small earthquake. They get away onto higher ground.
They come to an apparently non-volcanic lake. Pterosaurs fly in and fly with their lower jaws skimming in the surface of the lake for fish. When they get back to camp they find that something had raided their camp and torn much of their equipment apart looking for the meat that was part of their rations. This loss of food supplies causes a crisis. As they walk through a forest, something follows them through the fern undergrowth, then goes away.
In the park, Martha the Mammuthus is led to stand between two jeeps, and several members of the team stand on one of them to clip her hair short to avoid the overheating. During this Martha sneezes over everybody and the camera.
On site, four Mei long attack one of the party, who gets them off him by jettisoning his pack, which contains the meat which they were after. Due to the nature of the attack, it is implied that the Mei long were responsible for the destruction and raid of the camp. Nigel finds an Incisivosaurus. It displays at him and then charges, and bumps the camera with its nose, leaving spit and snot on its lens. It has short quill feathers on its arms, too short for flight, and also quill feathers on the sides of the ends of its tail. It was thought that dinosaur feathers first arose for insulation for warmth, then the quill feathers arose for displaying and later got big enough for gliding.
In the park, Bob is looking at the Ornithomimus from a hide and sees that one of the Ornithomimus starts to go off by itself looking in undergrowth, and there are fears about its health.
On site, Nigel using binoculars sees some Microraptors going in the same direction, and follows them. This brings him to a herd of titanosaurs pushing through the dense forest making a trampled track as if a convoy of trucks had gone that way. That is not a usual habitat for titanosaurs, and it turns out that they are looking for somewhere to lay eggs safely hidden from egg-eaters. 12 Microraptors come: they were after insects disturbed by the titanosaurs pushing through vegetation and tearing up the ground and treading on insect-ridden rotten logs. Nigel tries to catch some Microraptors, but they are all too quick for him.
Nigel makes an enclosure of net, with inside it a hollow baited with insects, as Microraptors can only glide and cannot take off from flat ground. The Microraptors see the insects but mistrust the net. Out of nowhere, two male Incisivosaurus, one chasing the other, run into the net and flatten it and get away. Then the Microraptors land and eat the insects. Nigel runs at them but catches nothing. The men go back through the time portal to the park.
In the park the one Ornithomimus has started lying about in the shade. Nigel has seen this behavior in birds, and guesses that the Ornithomimus is broody.
Nigel and at least four others go back through the time portal to the site. Nigel now has a net gun (which he has tested on Bob), and a carbon dioxide detector. Each man has a gasmask in his pack, as volcanic ash in the air damages the lungs. In a forest Nigel comes across a pair of Incisivosaurus who seem to be courting, by calling and displaying at each other close up.
In the park, the Ornithomimus is taken into the vet's examination room. A bag is put over its head, to quieten it. Medical ultrasound shows that it has two fully developed functioning oviducts, each containing an egg. (Modern birds only have a left oviduct.)
The two Tyrannosaurus are threatening each other.
On site Nigel sees that the titanosaur trail goes downhill towards the volcano, but he must follow it. They find several Mei long which had gone to sleep in a flat-bottomed hollow. Nigel plans to avoid the hollow to avoid waking them, but something seems wrong. He claps a few times, but nothing happens. He pokes one with a stick, but it does not wake. He realizes that the Mei longs are dead from gassing by carbon dioxide of volcanic origin. He looks at his carbon dioxide detector, which gives a reading. He calls out "carbon dioxide!" and tells everybody to go to higher ground.
In the park the two Tyrannosaurus start to fight. They are separated by water blast from a watercannon mounted on a large water tanker truck and put in separate small pens while a partition is built dividing their enclosure. Both growl and roar in frustration.
On site, Nigel and his party finds the titanosaurs laying eggs in ground warmed by underground volcanic heat, a good place for incubation. He picks up one of the eggs and puts it back in the nest. Unlike with a hen's egg, it must always be the same way up, to avoid damage to the embryo. He reflects that the hatchling would grow to 30,000 times the weight to become adult. The Microraptors arrive, and with his netgun Nigel catches 4 of them. The strongest quake yet happens, and the top of the volcano explodes violently with an ash cloud. This spooks the titanosaurs, which stampede. Some titanosaurs are coming straight at Nigel, who curls up on the ground wrapped around the Microraptors until they pass. He is uninjured but one of the Microraptor has a simple broken left forearm bone. The volcano erupts, blasting out a huge ash cloud. The dinosaurs stampede. Nigel and his team put their gas masks on and quickly set up the time portal in the falling volcanic ash. It comes active just in time, and nine titanosaurs come through it, surprising the men in the park, who have to find somewhere to put them; Bob says "I don't believe it." seeing them come through the time portal.
In the park the broody Ornithomimus starts to lay eggs: it has laid six eggs (one pair per day) in a part circle when the episode ends. The injured Microraptor's arm is splinted under anaesthetic; one of the staff refers to it as "she". Bob erects a new fence which he believes will keep the Titanosaurs contained: however, the dinosaurs beg to differ...
Airdate: 5 August 2006
Season 1, Episode 4: Saving the Sabretooth[edit]
South America, 1 million and 10,000 years ago, Pliocene and Pleistocene/Holocene, respectively
Genera encountered:
Toxodon
Smilodon
Phorusrhacos
Six-banded Armadillo (live-acted)
Red Brocket Deer (live-acted)
Nigel is shown walking with a tame cheetah. He comments that specialization has threatened the cheetah, and later that specialization may have wiped out the Smilodon. In the park the titanosaurs break their fence and have to be let wander around the park. They go towards the park's main gates. Bob follows one in a tractor. During this he shouts at a titanosaur "Get back, you great lummox." To his disgust it discharges runny smelly faeces in front of him: its gut clearly does not like some of the modern vegetation. At the same time, Nigel radios to Bob that he will need a birdcage for a bird standing 10 feet high, but due to tractor engine noise and titanosaur noise, Bob only hears part of the message, and provides an ordinary parakeet-sized birdcage. Nigel explains to Bob what is needed.
Nigel goes through the time portal to South America 1 million years ago when the sabre-tooth species known as Smilodon were in their prime (having recently entered South America after the Panama land bridge formed), but the terror birds (Phorusrhachids) were dying out; before that South America had been cut off from the other continents for 30 million years. He drives through a moving herd of Toxodon; he follows them to find where they were going, and he sees that they were going to water to swim or wallow in: he sees that they lived like modern hippopotamus, and thus may be dangerous like hippos. A huge male Toxodon chases Nigel's jeep, and he has to drive fast and far before it gives up the chase.
In the park the female Ornithomimus had laid more eggs. Two of them have rolled out of the nest and she leaves them there, so Susanne must rescue them for artificial incubation, as all those eggs are precious. Susanne stalks up to them and picks them up; the Ornithomimus does not chase, but demonstrates, causing a flurry among some white egrets. Bob puts the 2 eggs in an incubator at 33 °C, as this is best temperature for crocodile and ostrich eggs.
On site Nigel sees a female Smilodon stalk a Toxodon and then after a short chase, jump on its head and bite its throat to kill it. More Smilodon come, including some 6 to 8 week old cubs. While waiting Nigel has a coffee and the Smilodon eat their fill and go away. A Phorusrhacos starts to eat from the carcass. Another Smilodon appears and chases it away, forcing it to drop a lump of meat which it had pulled off. That sort of pressure is why the Phorusrhacos were dying out. Nigel stalks up to that dropped piece of meat and picks it up. The Smilodon on the kill demonstrates at him but does not charge at him. Nigel tows the piece of meat behind his jeep and entices the Phorusrhacos to chase it through the time portal into the park.
In the park the eggs incubated by the Ornithomimus hatch and the resulting young run about (the first baby dinosaurs for 65 million years), but the two eggs in the incubator do not hatch. The young Ornithomimus are covered in downy feathers.
Accompanied by big cat expert Saba Douglas-Hamilton, Nigel goes through the time portal to South America in 10,000BC when the sabertooth species were dying out. They find a drier climate and no big game. Nigel and Saba separate, on foot. Saba hears animals' alarm cries, but Nigel finds nothing.
Saba finds a deposit of fresh Smilodon faeces. She pulls it apart with a knife and fork and finds that it is full of hair and bone and bits of animal hide, as if hunger had forced the Smilodon to scavenge old remains of carcasses.
Nigel hears vegetation noise from an animal near him. He finds, catches and releases an ordinary modern-type armadillo and remarks that a million years earlier there were giant armadillos about.
Saba later finds something in the grass; sadly, it is a dead Smilodon cub. Nigel cannot find any signs of ill health and realises that the cub must have died from starvation. This has at least given them a hint. A female Smilodon cannot be far away. However, she must be in very poor condition.
Nigel has a videocamera with a movement detector: he leaves it overnight watching over a trail. In the morning he plays it back and finds that a male Smilodon had investigated it and knocked it over, urinated on it and left a musky mammal smell.
Saba watches the female Smilodon hunting. It sees her and confronts her. She backs off. Nigel meets Saba. Due to lack of prey the female Smilodon is hunting unsuitably light fast prey, a deer: when she charges, the deer runs away easily. Later they see her suckling a live cub, but she is making little or no milk for it. A male Smilodon turns up: there is risk that it will kill the cub to bring its mother into oestrus sooner. In the jeep they anaesthetic-dart the male Smilodon and start to wait 10 minutes while the dart drug works. The Smilodon charges out of bushes and jumps on the front of the jeep; they back off.
In the park the men have finished building a partition across the Tyrannosaurus enclosure, and put a Tyrannosaurus on each side. Matilda keeps threatening Terence but now cannot reach him.
On site, they find the male Smilodon and load it up on the back of the jeep. Then they go for the female, planning to anaesthetic-dart her and load her and her cub. When they reach her, the cub has starved to death. The female Smilodon is badly underweight from trying to lactate on too little food, and is dying as well, so Saba anaesthetic darts her. A little while later, Nigel and Saba load the female into the jeep, but both are upset that the cub could not be saved.
The two Ornithomimus eggs in the incubator hatch, late but successfully: Bob guesses that the incubator's temperature had been set a little too low. The two resulting hatchlings see Bob and imprint on him, thinking that he is their mother and follow him about. They eat food pellets out of his hand.
With good food and no need to lactate, the two Smilodon and the Phorusrhacos recover from their hunger over the next fortnight. However, tensions remain high, as Matilda's increasingly aggressive behaviour could spell danger for the Park.
Airdate: 12 August 2006
Season 1, Episode 5: The Bug House[edit]
Isle of Arran in Scotland, 300 million years ago, Carboniferous
Genera encountered:
Meganeura (identified as Giant Dragonfly)
Arthropleura
Pulmonoscorpius (identified as Giant Scorpion)
Crassigyrinus
In the park, Bob puts the two imprinted baby Ornithomimus in an enclosure with the other baby Ornithomimus and tells them to stay there, one nips his leg. The Smilodon are in adjacent enclosures. The male wants the female, but the more mature female is not interested, either ignoring him or acting aggressively towards him.
Nigel goes to modern Arran (in a large RIB with an A-frame and a steering wheel), and sees a fossil Arthropleura track in rock. He talks about what Arran was 300,000,000 years ago.
He goes back to the park to serious trouble among the Tyrannosaurus: Matilda has broken into Terence's enclosure. Terence has refused to allow his sister to intrude on his territory and a fight has broken out, in which Matilda is gaining the upper hand, soon knocking him down. Terence has been badly wounded on the face and is losing blood. Bob has drug-darted Matilda, but these drugs take time to act on reptiles. When Terence is badly injured by his sister, Nigel arrives in a roofed jeep and encourages her to chase his jeep, distracting her from finishing off the wounded Terence. When he comes to dense woodland, he can drive no further and climbs a tree. Matilda pulls the cloth cover off the top of the jeep, and then collapses due to the tranquilliser.
The injured Terence is in good hands, so Nigel, with assistants, drives in the jeep through the time portal to Upper Carboniferous Arran, where the land is covered with coal forest. He had aimed at an island of dry land, but drives out of the Time Portal's field into a swamp over his jeep's axles. The jeep's engine gets wet and stops and will not start. The forest is very quiet, as there is no bird song or tree-frog noise, only wind and insects. A Meganeura flies over.
In the park, Terence is in the animal clinic, anaesthetized, and Susanne is operating on the wounds. She prefers absorbable sutures to surgical clips, since Terence would need to be anaesthetised again for the clips to be removed. She sews the wounds with the skin edges sticking out a bit, as is sometimes done when operating on reptiles.
On site, Upper Carboniferous air is 35% oxygen, not 20% as now, and that is why the insects are so big. Nigel climbs a 150-foot-tall tree (Sigillaria or Lepidodendron or similar): it has no branches until near its top, and he must use a loop of strap around himself and the tree, to climb. He reaches its top and sees a wide view, and patches of open water: the place to look for Meganeura. A Meganeura flies over.
In the park, an enclosed building to contain a 35% nitrox atmosphere for the coal forest wildlife is being built, with airlock doors. A titanosaur goes past, knocks a partly built wall down with its head, looks at the rubble, then goes away. Bob says that the titanosaurs cannot seem to settle in one area. Bob offers the titanosaur a cycad leaf, but it does not eat.
On site, Nigel wades through a swamp. Something big moves about underwater and makes bubbles. Nigel hears something big moving about in undergrowth on land, and chases it, and finds an Arthropleura. It rears and confronts him. It is 10 feet long and has big dangerous-looking mandibles. Some modern millipedes (see Harpaphe haydeniana) can squirt cyanide, which smells of almonds, and Nigel fears that Arthropleura may also.
In the park, Susanne has put climbing poles in the Smilodon enclosures: this is environmental enrichment, which will hopefully make them happier so she will be more accepting of the male.
Bob suspects that the titanosaurs are looking for stomach stones, and collects stones for them.
On site, the Arthropleura has gone, leaving a track. Nigel says that that may be the same track that he saw fossilized on modern Arran. He sees two male Meganeura have a dogfight. Afterwards, one flies away and the other looks for food. Nigel has a butterfly net, but a butterfly net big enough to catch a Meganeura is cumbersome. As Nigel makes a move to catch a Meganeura, something in the water bites his right ankle. He says "Animal bites for us wildlife folks are just a badge of courage." They look for a dry area to camp. Evening is coming. The crew camp for the night. They have head lights strapped to their heads. Nigel warns them never to walk without boots on in case of stinging animals. Someone by force of habit puts mosquito net up, and Nigel tells him to take it down, as mosquitoes have not evolved yet. Nigel sleeps under a waterproof sheet in a hammock slung between two giant lycopsid trees in the coal forest. There is a thunderstorm in the night.
In the park, Bob brings a wheelbarrow full of the stones to some titanosaurs; one of them investigates it.
In an observation enclosure, Terence is lethargic, and blood tests show Susanne that Terence has septicaemia, and she reluctantly gives him antibiotic (not knowing how the drugs will react with a prehistoric reptile). While it is risky giving antibiotics to an unknown species, Suzanne knows if she does not, the infection of his injuries will probably kill Terence.
On site, the thunderstorm stops, and it is still night, and animals tend to become active after rain. Nigel goes about with a large ultraviolet light. He finds a Pulmonoscorpius nearly a meter long, by its shell fluorescing. He films it, but his camera work is shaky and he would need the team's cameraman to take good footage. The Pulmonoscorpius then begins crawling onto Jim's bed, and looks as if it may sting him when he twitches in his sleep. Nigel grabs it by the tail end, and it nips him with its pincers. He lets it go away from the camp. This wakes Jim, and Nigel explains to Jim what happened.
In the park Sabrina, the female Smilodon, seems happier, and as if she will accept the male. Susanne wonders whether to raise the door between their enclosures.
On site, Nigel tries to catch a Meganeura by a technique known for catching modern dragonflies, by filling a long two-handed hand-pumped water-gun with detergent solution to squirt on a Meganeura so that it will fall in the water and become wet, so it can be caught easily. The Meganeura are very fast and agile, but after many failed attempts, he hits one perched on a floating log. Nigel gets his net and catches the Meganeura. In the water he sees a big amphibian. He passes the net with the Meganeura in to a companion and swims underwater (without a diving mask) and catches the amphibian after a struggle, as it is very strong and slippery. He shows that it is an underwater ambush predator. It has two rows of teeth in its upper jaw and one in its lower jaw. He sees that it is a Crassigyrinus, whose fossils have only been found in Scotland; he nicknames it a "swamp monster" as it has no common name. That is what bit his ankle earlier. He has to let it go, as he has no way to transport it safely. He holds the Meganeura vertically by its thorax so its wings fan his face, as the forest is very hot and damp, then puts the Meganeura in a net cage.
In the park Susanne lifts the door between the Smilodon enclosures. They have a water jet ready to separate the two if they fight. The male goes into the female's enclosure. They growl somewhat at each other, but do not fight.
On site, Nigel looks for the Pulmonoscorpius. He finds one nearly a meter long under a half casing of a rotted-out fallen lycopsid log. It has thin claws, so Nigel is worried, because with scorpions small claws mean big sting. He holds its attention with a thin stick and works his a hand behind it and grabs its telson just in front of its sting. As he puts it in a dog carrier, it stings the back of his right hand as he lets it go. But a worse danger is coming.
In the park, Bob has filled the insect house with 35% nitrox atmosphere and has realized the resulting increased fire risk. He lights a thin piece of wood to show the fire risk.
The lightning storm has started a forest fire, which is spreading fast towards them, and in the 35%-oxygen air vegetation is much more inflammable than in modern air. They run towards the jeep. Nigel trips over a big Arthropleura hidden in ground litter. It rears to confront him. Nigel, who was wanting to get away quickly, was not thankful for this delay, but says he must rescue it, otherwise it will be burned alive. After a struggle, he and another man wrap it in a plastic sheet and tie red cord around it. They load everything on the jeep and set up the Time Portal just in front of the jeep, whose engine still will not start. Nigel runs through the Time Portal, comes back with the end of a tow rope, and ties it to the jeep, which is towed out of the coal forest swamp back into the modern age. They see that the tow rope was being towed not by a towtruck or other vehicle, but by a titanosaur, which Bob was enticing with the wheelbarrowfull of gastrolith stones. (This seems to imply that someone went back through the Time Portal earlier to tell the park staff to arrange a tow.)
The Arthropleura, the Meganeura, and the Pulmonoscorpius are put in the high-oxygen building. Terence is recovering well from his injury and infection but wrecks Suzanne's surgery once he wakes up from anaesthetic: Susanne had not restrained him, not realising he would come around so fast. Terrence is taken back into his enclosure, since he seems likely to make a full recovery. Nigel's sting site has swollen but still shows no serious symptoms, so either the Pulmonoscorpius's venom does not affect mammals (it came from a time before mammals), or it did not inject any venom, or he pulled his hand away before it could inject. Bob seems to take a liking to the Arthropleura and hand-feeds it ferns. He says that he likes it because "it isn't some kind of creepy-crawly bug, it's more like a proper animal." At the end of the episode is shown Terence is roaring at the Sunset.
Airdate: 19 August 2006
Season 1, Episode 6: Supercroc[edit]
Texas, 75 million years ago, Cretaceous
Genera encountered:
Parasaurolophus
Albertosaurus
Nyctosaurus
Deinosuchus
Troodon
In the park, near the Time Portal site there is a crocodile enclosure. There is a suspension bridge across it (the simple sort where the footway follows the catenary); Bob walks across it to feed the Nile crocodiles in the lake. Nigel plans to add a Deinosuchus, an ancient species of giant crocodilian (more closely related to alligators than crocodiles) which weighs up to 9 tons, to the park. Bob mutters that Nigel may have bitten off more than he can chew this time.
In a jeep, Nigel goes through the Time Portal to the Cretaceous in Texas, where Dallas is now. At this time North America is divided into three land areas by a Y-shaped internal epicontinental sea. The land around the Time Portal exit point is dry: gravelly sand with patches of trees and bushes. Two half-size juvenile Parasaurolophus go by and stop about 10 m away. Nigel chases them towards the jeep. Then two Albertosaurus appear. The Parasaurolophus honk and run away. Nigel revs his jeep's diesel engine: that makes the Albertosaurus back off, but not for long and they get accustomed to the noise (and presumably to diesel exhaust smell). He drives away. They chase him, at speed up to 30–38 mph, but they tire and turn away.
In the park, Bob is planting young trees to help feed the titanosaurs: he says that he will have to plant 2000 trees each year for this. The titanosaurs, of course, are no help whatsoever at this, and keep trampling trees down.
The Smilodon have bred and now have two cubs. Susanne sees that their mother is not making enough milk for the cubs, so she has to take the cubs and bottle-feed them, thus breaking the natural mother-cub link. If she were to put them back into their mother's enclosure, they would be killed.
On site, Nigel drives onto a sea beach, and looks out to sea for signs of Deinosuchus which could survive for a limited time in salt water like modern saltwater crocodiles. He stops. A herd of Parasaurolophus run past. They are each 10 meters long. He shouts at them to clear off in case they damage his jeep's paintwork. He finds a conch-sized gastropod shell and makes a hole in it and blows it to try to have an exchange of vocalizations: they make noises using their hollow crests.
Nigel, with binoculars, sees 5 Nyctosaurus fly in from the sea. They fish by skimming the lower jaw through the water surface. Nigel has brought a microlight with him: he uses it to fly with the Nyctosaurus. A Deinosuchus reaches its head out of the sea and grabs one of the Nyctosaurus. Nigel sees another Deinosuchus swimming from the sea up a river, and decides to head in that direction.
In the park, Susanne visits Martha the Mammuthus. Martha tries to be an "auntie" to the elephant herd's matriarch's calf. The frightened matriarch drives Martha away. Martha is becoming isolated again, and there is fear that she will again stop eating.
On site, Nigel paddles in a red inflatable boat on the river. A Deinosuchus bites the boat's stern, does not like the taste of rubber, and lets go. It snaps out of the water again by the boat, then disappears. Nigel paddles two miles upstream to a freshwater lake, where he sees some Deinosuchus on a sandbank, and a herd of Parasaurolophus forced by thirst to come to the lake to drink. Nigel paddles. He mentions that Deinosuchus will (geologically) soon be wiped out when sea floods the area, as they have a specialised lifestyle, so he must rescue one. An unwary young Parasaurolophus goes to the lake to drink. A Deinosuchus rockets out of the lake and grabs it by the chest. The two roll over and over in the lake. More Deinosuchus swim in. They take turns to hold the kill while another tears at it.
In the park, the Phorusrhacos has developed a habit of dust bathing near its enclosure's fence, undermining it. Each time, Bob fills the resulting hole with big stones. He realises that this tactic is only "firefighting" and that he will have to make a new fence with the bottom ends of all its posts buried four feet deep.
On site, Nigel has made a long double row of wooden posts ending in a blind end. He plans to entice a Deinosuchus with meat up the fenced route to the blind end. To get back to the jeep, he walks through a dense forest, but he is worried about dangerous predators. Something is following him. He feels relieved when a Troodon sticks its head up out of bushes and shows that it is much smaller than an Albertosaurus. When he reaches the jeep, he sees that three Troodon are eating the meat that he had brought as bait. He chases them away using a portable aerosol-like horn.
In the park Bob is shoveling up Elasmotherium dung when he sees the Phorusrhacos looking at him through a fence. He calls on his walkietalkie that the Phorusrhacos has escaped again. A keeper comes in a jeep, and by towing some meat behind the jeep leads the Phorusrhacos back to its enclosure.
On site, Nigel plans to use the rest of his meat to bait a Deinosuchus up the stockade. He sets the bait at the stockade's end. They rig hammocks. It gets dark. With their helmet headlights they see that some a Troodon was pulling away his bait. When Nigel chased after it, another came and ran off with the rest. The meat that was left was not enough to lure a Deinosuchus. They go to bed.
They are woken in the morning by the noise when three Albertosaurus kill a Parasaurolophus. Three Deinosuchus come out of the lake to steal the kill. There is noisy confrontation and some biting, and tugs-of-war over the flesh. The Albertosaurus admit defeat and back off.
In the park Martha the mammoth is still isolated from the elephant herd.
On site, Nigel must use himself as bait. He wades into the water and splashes it hard with a paddle until a Deinosuchus investigates. He backs off too soon; the Deinosuchus backs off. He splashes again. The Deinosuchus charges out of the sea and chases Nigel, who runs up the stockade path and at its blind end squeezes between two of its posts. He and 4 men with him struggle to hold the stockade posts upright, until the Deinosuchus tires, as cold-blooded reptiles tire quickly. They set up the time portal close outside the blind end of the stockade. Nigel in the jeep tows three of the end stockade posts out and through the Time Portal; the Deinosuchus is confined too closely to turn round, so it must follow him through the portal. It is enticed with a piece of meat to its pond (made close by the time portal), which it goes into.
In the park Bob as usual has to "pick up the pieces". He drives the jeep to his next job, and mutters that Prehistoric Park needs more keepers, as they have so many problems: the Phorusrhacos escaped its enclosure again; the Smilodon cubs have had Suzanne up half the night, the titanosaurs eat too much, and to make matters worse, their digestive systems cannot handle the modern vegetation resulting in bad diarrhea, and Nigel constantly bringing back more creatures is not helping. Suddenly, a Troodon emerges from the kit on the back of the jeep: enticed by the meat in the jeep intended to lure the Deinosuchus, it has stowed away. It snaps at Bob, and the swerving jeep runs straight at a titanosaur, causing it to stampede through several enclosures, causing the Ornithimimus flock, Phorusrhacos, Elasmotherium, and, worst of all, Matilda the Tyrannosaurus, to flee through the broken fences and run around freely through the park. Paying no attention to the titanosaur lumbering through her enclosure, Matilda walks right out into freedom, getting the scent of an easy meal. Bob manages to stop the jeep, and the Troodon leaps out and escapes into the undergrowth nearby. Bob runs off to try to capture the escapees. When trying to round up a group of escaped Ornithomimus and the Elasmotherium, Bob is warned that Matilda is on the loose and closing in on him, so he must flee. Matilda then heads for the elephants – she separates the calf from the rest of the herd and quickly runs it to the ground. But Martha, although the herd earlier drove her away, instinctively defends the calf, and with some trumpetings, growls, roars, and waving of tusks, her attack stops Matilda. Nigel then arrives and runs away on foot, trying to lure Matilda away to follow him. Matilda, seeing the prospect of an easy meal, turns away from Martha and starts chasing Nigel.



 Matilda barely managing to evade the Deinosuchus' attack.
Nigel runs past the Nile crocodile pond, across an open area, and along a jeep track past the Deinosuchus lake, with Matilda closing the gap behind him. The Deinosuchus, accustomed to fighting giant theropods, surges out of the lake at Matilda, who swings around just in time to dodge the attack. This delay buys time for Nigel, who runs into the Time Portal's entry stockaded enclosure and climbs out of it by a ladder. Matilda's jaws are only about a foot distance from one of his feet as he climbs to safety. Nigel shuts the enclosure and Matilda is contained.
A few weeks later, extra keepers have been hired. The escaped animals are back in their enclosures. Bob catches the Troodon in a long tunnel trap with droppable doors at both ends, and presumably finds somewhere to keep it. The elephants, thankful for the help and rescue, let Martha join them as a full herd member and be an "auntie" to the elephant calf. The Smilodon cubs have been weaned and are eating meat, but they have not grown visible saber teeth yet.
At the end of the episode we see Nigel at his headquarters planning his next mission before travelling through the time portal, suggesting that a future series will be made.
Airdate: 26 August 2006
See also[edit]
Prehistoric Park
List of locations in Prehistoric Park


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The following is a complete list of prehistoric creatures from the universe of the Walking with... series documentary, science fiction and fantasy television programmes, companion books and also any spin-off merchandise. Most of the shows produced by Impossible Pictures with BBC Worldwide and Discovery Channel in association with ProSieben and France 3 and created by Tim Haines and Jasper James. They used visual effects teams such as Framestore, The Mill and Jellyfish Pictures to bring back extinct creatures to life.


Contents  [hide]
1 Walking with Dinosaurs
2 The Ballad of Big Al
3 Walking with Beasts
4 The Lost World
5 Chased by Dinosaurs
6 Sea Monsters
7 Walking with Cavemen
8 Walking with Monsters
9 The Arena Spectacular
10 Prehistoric Park
11 Walking with Dinosaurs: The 3D Movie
12 Primeval
13 References
14 External links

Walking with Dinosaurs[edit]
220,000,000 BC, Late Triassic (Arizona)
Coelophysis (Coelophysis bauri)
Postosuchus (Postosuchus kirkpatricki)
Thrinaxodon (Thrinaxodon liorhinus) (Introduced as Cynodont)
Plateosaurus (Plateosaurus engelhardti)
Placerias (Placerias hesternus)
Peteinosaurus (Peteinosaurus zambellii)
152,000,000 BC, Late Jurassic (Colorado)
Diplodocus (Diplodocus longus)
Ornitholestes (Ornitholestes hermanni)
Stegosaurus (Stegosaurus stenops)
Brachiosaurus (Brachiosaurus altithorax)
Allosaurus (Allosaurus fragilis)
Anurognathus (Anurognathus ammoni)
Dryosaurus (Dryosaurus altus)
149,000,000 BC, Late Jurassic (Oxfordshire)
Ophthalmosaurus (Ophthalmosaurus icenicus)
Liopleurodon (Liopleurodon ferox)
Eustreptospondylus (Eustreptospondylus oxoniensis)
Cryptoclidus (Cryptoclidus eurymerus)
Rhamphorhynchus (Rhamphorhynchus muensteri)
Hybodus (Hybodus reticulatus)
Perisphinctes (Perisphinctes plicatilis)
127,000,000 BC, Early Cretaceous (Brazil, North America, Europe and Catambria)
Ornithocheirus/Tropeognathus (Tropeognathus mesembrinus)
Iguanodon (Iguanodon bernissartensis)
Utahraptor (Utahraptor ostrommaysorum)
Dakotadon (Dakotadon lakotaensis)
Tupandactylus (Tupandactylus navigans)
Polacanthus (Polacanthus foxii)
Iberomesornis (Iberomesornis romerali)
106,000,000 BC, Middle Cretaceous (Australia)
Leaellynasaura (Leaellynasaura amicagraphica)
Australovenator (Australovenator wintonensis)
Muttaburrasaurus (Muttaburrasaurus langdoni)
Koolasuchus (Koolasuchus cleelandi)
Steropodon (Steropodon galmani)
65,500,000 BC, Late Cretaceous (Montana)
Tyrannosaurus (Tyrannosaurus rex)
Torosaurus (Torosaurus latus)
Ankylosaurus (Ankylosaurus magniventris)
Edmontosaurus (Edmontosaurus Annectans)
Dromaeosaurus (Dromaeosaurus albertensis)
Thescelosaurus (Thescelosaurus garbanii)
Didelphodon (Didelphodon vorax)
Quetzalcoatlus (Quetzalcoatlus northropi)
Deinosuchus (Deinosuchus rugosus)
Dinilysia (Dinilysia patagonica)
Triceratops (Triceratops horridus)
The Ballad of Big Al[edit]
145,000,000 BC, Late Jurassic (Wyoming)
Allosaurus (Allosaurus fragilis)
Stegosaurus (Stegosaurus stenops)
Diplodocus (Diplodocus longus)
Apatosaurus (Apatosaurus excelsus)
Dryosaurus (Dryosaurus altus)
Ornitholestes (Ornitholestes hermanni)
Brachiosaurus (Brachiosaurus altithorax)
Anurognathus (Anurognathus ammoni)
Othnielia (Othnielia rex)
Walking with Beasts[edit]
49,000,000 BC, Early Eocene (Germany)
Leptictidium (Leptictidium tobieni)
Gastornis (Gastornis sarasini)
Ambulocetus (Ambulocetus natans)
Propalaeotherium (Propalaeotherium parvulum)
Godinotia (Godinotia neglecta)
Titanomyrma (Titanomyrma giganteum)
Eurotamandua (Eurotamadua joresi)
36,000,000 BC, Late Eocene (Pakistan and Egypt)
Basilosaurus (Basilosaurus isis)
Andrewsarchus (Andrewsarchus mongoliensis)
Embolotherium (Embolotherium andrewsi)
Dorudon (Dorudon atrox)
Moeritherium (Moeritherium trigodon)
Apidium (Apidium moustafai)
Physogaleus (Physogaleus secundus)
25,000,000 BC, Late Oligocene (Mongolia)
Paraceratherium (Paraceratherium transouralicum)
Hyaenodon (Hyaenodon gigas)
Chalicotherium (Chalicotherium brevirostris)
Entelodon (Entelodon magnus)
Cynodictis (Cynodictis elegans)
3,200,000 BC, Late Pliocene (Ethiopia)
Australopithecus (Australopithecus afarensis)
Dinofelis (Dinofelis barlowi)
Ancylotherium (Ancylotherium hennigi)
Deinotherium (Deinotherium bozasi)
1,000,000 BC, Early Pleistocene (Paraguay)
Smilodon (Smilodon populator)
Macrauchenia (Macrauchenia patagonica)
Megatherium (Megatherium americanum)
Phorusrhacos (Phorusrhacos longissimus)
Doedicurus (Doedicurus clavicaudatus)
30,000 BC, Late Pleistocene (Belgium)
Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius)
Irish Elk (Megaloceros giganteus)
Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis)
Woolly Rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis)
Human (Homo sapiens sapiens)
European Lion (Panthera leo spealea)
Gray Wolf (Canis lupus)
The Lost World[edit]
145,000,000 BC, Late Jurassic (Colorado)
Epanterias (Epanterias amplexus)
Diplodocus (Diplodocus longus)
Brachiosaurus (Brachiosaurus altithorax)
Allosaurus (Allosaurus fragilis)
125,000,000 BC, Early Cretaceous (Wessex)
Iguanodon (Iguanodon bernissartensis)
Hypsilophodon (Hypsilophodon foxii)
75,000,000 BC, Late Cretaceous (Kansas)
Pteranodon (Pteranodon longiceps)
25,000,000 BC, Late Oligocene (Mongolia)
Entelodon (Entelodon magnus)
2,000,000 BC, Early Pleistocene (Java)
Java Man (Homo erectus erectus)
10,000 BC, Late Pleistocene (Brazil)
Human (Homo sapiens sapiens)
Chased by Dinosaurs[edit]
Episode Time Location Species
Land of Giants 100 million years ago
 Middle Cretaceous Argentina Argentinosaurus huinculensis
Sarcosuchus imperator
Pteranodon sp.
Giganotosaurus carolinii
Tropeognathus (Ornithocheirus) mesembrinus
Macrogryphosaurus gondwanicus
The Giant Claw 75 million years ago
 Late Cretaceous Mongolia Saurolophus angustirostris
Protoceratops andrewsi
Velociraptor mongoliensis
Mononykus olecranus
Tarbosaurus bataar
Therizinosaurus cheloniformis
Azhdarcho lancicollis
Sea Monsters[edit]
Title Time Hazards Species
The Seventh Most Dangerous Sea of All Time 450 million years ago
 Late Ordovician Giant Orthocones, Sea Scorpions Cameroceras trentonense(Orthocones)
Megalograptus alveolatus
Astraspis desiderata
Isotelus rex
The Sixth Most Deadly Sea of All Time 230 million years ago
Triassic Nothosaurs, Cymbospondylus Peteinosaurus zambellii
Nothosaurus mirabilis
Tanystropheus ongobardicus
Cymbospondylus natans
Liliensternus liliensterni
The Fifth Most Dangerous Sea of All Time 360 million years ago
Devonian Dunkleosteus Bothriolepis ornata
Stethacanthus altonensis
Dunkleosteus terrelli
The Fourth Most Dangerous Sea of All Time 36 million years ago
Eocene Basilosaurus Arsinoitherium zitteli
Dorudon atrox
Basilosaurus isis
The Third Most Dangerous Sea of All Time 4 million years ago
Pliocene Megalodon Odobenocetops leptodon
Carcharodon/Carcharocles megalodon
Cetotherium rathkii
The Second Most Dangerous Sea Ever 155 million years ago
Jurassic Liopleurodon Leedsichthys problematicus
Metriorhynchus geoffroyii
Hybodus houtienensis
Liopleurodon ferox
The Most Dangerous Sea Ever 75 million years ago
Cretaceous Xiphactinus, Sharks, Giant Mosasaurs Hesperornis regalis
Squalicorax falcatus (Shark)
Xiphactinus audax
Halisaurus platyspondylus (Mosasaur)
Tyrannosaurus rex
Pteranodon longiceps
Elasmosaurus platyurus
Archelon ischyros
Tylosaurus kansasensis (Giant Mosasaur)
Walking with Cavemen[edit]
Episode Time Location Species
First Ancestors 3.2 million years ago
 Ethiopia Australopithecus afarensis
Ancylotherium
Deinotherium
Crocodylus Thorbjamarsoni
Blood Brothers 2 million years ago
 East Africa Paranthropus boisei
Homo habilis
Dinofelis
Deinotherium
Ancylotherium
Homo rudolfensis
Savage Family 1.5 million years ago –
500,000 years ago
 Southern Africa – China Homo ergaster
Homo erectus
Gigantopithecus
Tarantula
The Survivors 400,000  years ago –
30,000 years ago
 Europe – Africa Homo heidelbergensis
Homo neanderthalensis
Megaloceros
Mammuthus primigenius
Homo sapiens
Walking with Monsters[edit]
Time Location Oxygen Content/Global Temp Hazards Species
530 million years ago
 Late Cambrian Chengjiang, China 30% Below Today World's First Super Predator Redlichiida sp. (Trilobite)
Anomalocaris saron
Haikouichthys ercaicunensis
 Unidentified jellyfish
418 million years ago
 Late Silurian South Wales, UK 30% Below Today Giant Scorpions Cephalaspis lyelli
Brontoscorpio anglicus
Pterygotus anglicus
Cameroceras trentonense (Identified as orthocone)
 Unidentified sponge
 Unidentified sea urchin
Cooksonia pertoni
360 million years ago
 Late Devonian Pennsylvania, USA 20% Below Today Giant Killer Fish Hynerpeton
Hyneria
Stethacanthus
 Unidentified scorpion
300 million years ago
 Late Carboniferous Kansas, USA 40% Above Today Giant Insects Primitive mesothelae
Petrolacosaurus kansensis
Meganeura monyi
Arthropleura armata
Proterogyrinus scheelei
280 million years ago
 Early Permian Bromacker, Germany 20% Colder Than Today Extreme Seasons Dimetrodon teutonis
Edaphosaurus pogonias
Seymouria sanjuanensis
 Unidentified dragonfly
250 million years ago
 Late Permian Siberia 60% Hotter Than Today Extreme Heat,
 Volcanic Activity Inostrancevia alexandri (Identified as Gorgonops / gorgonopsid)
Diictodon feliceps
Rhinesuchus africanus (Identified as labyrinthodont)
Scutosaurus karpinskii
248 million years ago
 Early Triassic South Africa 40% Hotter Than Today Ambush Predators Lystrosaurus murrayi
Euparkeria capensis
Proterosuchus fergusi
Euchambersia mirabilis (Identified as therocephalian)
 Unidentified dragonfly
The Arena Spectacular[edit]
Show Species
Walking with Dinosaurs: The Arena Spectacular Allosaurus fragilis
Ankylosaurus magniventris
Brachiosaurus altithorax
Iguanodon bernissartensis (carcass)
Liliensternus liliensterni
Ornithocheirus/Tropeognathus
Plateosaurus engelhardti
Stegosaurus stenops
Torosaurus latus
Tyrannosaurus rex
Utahraptor ostrommaysorum
Prehistoric Park[edit]
Episode Time Location Species Encountered
T.rex Returns 65 million years ago
 Late Cretaceous Montana, USA Nyctosaurus gracilis
Ornithomimus velox
Triceratops horridus
Tyrannosaurus rex
A Mammoth Undertaking 150,000 years ago
 and 10,000 years ago
 Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Siberia Ursus spaeleus
Elasmotherium sibricum
Homo sapiens sapiens
Mammuthus primigenius
Crocuta crocuta spaeleus
Canis lupus
Dinobirds 125 million years ago
 Early Cretaceous Manchuria, China Borealosaurus wimani (Titanosaur)
Eosipterus yangi (Pterosaur)
Incisivosaurus gauthieri
Mei long
Microraptor gui
Saving the Sabretooth 1 million years ago
 and 10,000 years ago
 Early Pleistocene/Early Holocene South America Phorusrhacos longissimus
Smilodon populator
Toxodon platensis
The Bug House 300 million years ago
 Late Carboniferous Scotland, UK Arthropleura armata
Crassigyrinus scoticus
Meganeura monyi
Pulmonoscorpius kirktonensis
Supercroc 75 million years ago
 Upper Cretaceous Texas, USA Albertosaurus sarchophagus
Deinosuchus rugosus
Nyctosaurus gracilis
Parasaurolophus walkeri
Troodon formosus
Walking with Dinosaurs: The 3D Movie[edit]
Film Time Species
Walking with Dinosaurs: The 3D Movie 70 million years ago
Late Cretaceous Alexornis antecedens
Alphadon marshi
Chirostenotes pergracilis
Edmontonia longiceps (Identified as ankylosaur)
Edmontosaurus regalis
Gorgosaurus libratus
Hesperonychus elizabethae
Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum
Parksosaurus warreni
Quetzalcoatlus northropi (Identified as pterosaur)
Troodon inequalis
Primeval[edit]
Main article: List of creatures in Primeval
References[edit]

External links[edit]
BBC Wildlife Finder (Prehistoric Life)
BBC Wildlife Finder (History of Life on Earth)
Impossible Pictures Official Website


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Trilogy
Walking with Dinosaurs (1999) ·
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Specials
The Ballad of Big Al (2000) ·
 Chased by Dinosaurs (2002) ·
 Walking with Cavemen (2003) ·
 Sea Monsters (2003)
 

Related
The Lost World (2001) ·
 Prehistoric Park (2006) ·
 Primeval (2007) ·
 March of the Dinosaurs (2011) ·
 Primeval: New World (2012)
 

Spin-offs
Prehistoric Planet (2002) ·
 The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life (2006)
 

Lists
List of Walking with... creatures ·
 List of Prehistoric Park episodes, locations ·
 List of Primeval creatures, episodes, books, characters
 

Films
Walking with Dinosaurs (2013)
 

Games
Dinosaur World (2002) ·
 Primeval Evolved (2009) ·
 Walking with Dinosaurs (2013)
 

Other
The Last Dragon (2004) ·
 Space Odyssey (2004) ·
 Ocean Odyssey (2006) ·
 Planet Dinosaur (2011)
 

 


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